The Desert

• The Life of Anthony: The Coptic Life and the Greek Life, by Athanasius, trans. Tim Vivian & Apostolos Athanassakis (CS 202)
• The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection, trans. Benedicta Ward
• Palladius of Aspuna: The Lausiac History, trans. John Wortley (CS 252)
• The Institutes, by John Cassian, trans. Boniface Ramsey

St Benedict

• Rule of St Benedict
• RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict in Latin and English with Notes, trans. Timothy Fry
• Strangers to the City: Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of St. Benedict, by Michael Casey

Early Cistercians

• Exordium Cistercii (Cistercian Foundational Story)
• Charter of Charity (Description of Relationship between Monasteries)
• The New Monastery: Texts and Studies on the Earliest Cistercians, ed. E. Rozanne Elder (CF 60)
• Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women, eds. Lilian Thomas Shank OCSO and John A. Nichols  (CS 113A/B)

La Trappe

• Armand-Jean De Rance, Abbot of La Trappe: His Influence in the Cloister and the World, by A.J. Kreilsheimer
• A Monastic Odyssey, by Marie de La Trinite Kervingant, trans. Jean Holman (CS 171)

Cistercian Life Today

• Statute on Unity and Pluralism (1969)
• OCSO Constitutions (1990)
• Monastic Practices, by Charles Cummings (CS 75)
• The Cistercian Way, by Andre Louf (CS 76)
• Centered On Christ: A Guide to Monastic Profession, by Augustine Roberts (MW 5)