Essential Texts
- The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum)
- The Lives of the Desert Fathers (Historia Monachorum in Aegypte)
- Ethiopic Collectio Monastica, a lesser known work that includes many sayings of the Desert Fathers not included in the Apophthegmata Patrum
- The Lausiac History by Palladius of Galatia
- The Life of Saint Antony by St. Athanasius
- Philokalia collection of texts
- The Conferences and The Institutes by John Cassian
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