GK Chesterton Books

One of the most profound and prolific writers of the 20th century, Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote 100 books, hundreds of poems, five plays, two hundred short stories and over 4,000 newspaper columns. And he did this while always managing to distil complex ideas into short snippets with an incredible talent for being a wordsmith.

A giant of a man, standing 6’4″ and 300 lbs, he was aways found with cigar in hand and a cape on his back. He is said to have written many of his books and essays in train stations, having missed his train and having no idea where he should be next.

It was in times like these that he wrote gems such as: “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”

He is credited with bringing C.S. Lewis to Christianity.

Overall, Chesterton as a true Catholic and defended the faith in all that he did. He wrote in support of the poor, the family and beauty. He wasn’t afraid to attack both socialism and capitalism and, fundamentally, supported the common man and common sense.

Despite all this, Chesterton is generally forgotten amongst the peers of his era. Discover the best G.K. Chesterton books below.

GK Chesterton Books

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Complete Father Brown Mysteries

The Ball and the Cross

All Things Considered

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Robert Browning

Heretics

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

The Man Who Was Thursday

Orthodoxy

The Innocence of Father Brown

The Ballad of the White Horse

Manalive

Eugenics and Other Evils

Saint Francis of Assisi

The Everlasting Man

Saint Thomas Aquinas

G K Chesterton Quotes

“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”