I really enjoyed On the Incarnation and read it soon after I became Orthodox a little over two years ago. Athanasius’ emphasis on the Psalter began to open my eyes to the role that the Psalms play in a life of prayer. Of course, we regularly sing the same Psalms in the Orthodox Church on Sunday during the Liturgy, but I had never read them or prayed them with any regularity on my own until reading Athanasius and several other Christians. I think this work should be read by all Christians. I literally marked up the entire book!

I also loved The Brothers Karamazov. Its profoundly Christian world view spoke to me also at a time when I was in the process of converting to Orthodoxy. I am still undecided whom I like better–Dostoevsky or Tolstoy–because I have only read one book by each (The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina).