Recommended BOOKS — Cistercian Studies (Click on each link to order)

Casey, Michael, OCSO. Fully Human, Fully Divine: An Interactive Christology.
Liguiri, MO: Liguori/Triumph, 2004.
 

Casey, Michael, OCSO. Exordium (Cistercian Studies Quarterly, (An International Review of the Monastic and Contemplative Spiritual Tradition)

de Waal, Esther. The Way of Simplicity: The Cistercian Tradition. Amazon.com

Krailsheimer, A.J. Rance and the Trappist Legacy. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1985.
 

Leclercq, Jean, OSB: Bernard of Clairvoux and the Cistercian Spirit (No publisher available)
 

Louf, Andre, OCSO. The Cistercian Way, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1989

Merton, Thomas. The Waters of Siloe: New  York: Harcourt Brace Publishers, 1949

Pennington, M. Basil, OCSO, The Cistercians. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1992.

__________. ed. The Cistercian Spirit: A symposium in memory of Thomas Merton. Washington: Consortium Press. 1973 (No purchase link available)
 

__________. ed. Bernard of Clairvaux. A Lover of Teach the Way of Love. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1997

__________. William of St. Thierry, The Way of Divine Love, Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1977 (No purchase link available)

__________. A School of Love: The Cistercian Way to Holiness.

Squire, Aelred. Aelred of Rievaulx: A Study. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications. 1981

Sommerfeldt, John. The Spiritual Teachings of Bernard of Clairvaux. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications,  1991 (Out of Stock)

Tamburello, Dennis E. Bernard of Clairvaux: Essential Writings. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Co.

Vest, Norvene, Preferring Christ: A Devotional Commentary and Workbook on the Rule of St. Benedict. Trabuco Canyon, CA: Source Books, 1990