Reading and educational manuals appeared on the Polish editorial market in the 19th century, providing guidelines on the topic of harms and advantages of reading. During the interwar period such recommendation bibliographies were prepared by educational activists, teachers, lecturers, librarians as well as priests and lay persons related to the Catholic Church. The article presents the content characteristic of a reading manual comprised by Fr. Marian Pirożyński "Co czytać? Poradnik dla czytających książki" ("What to Read? Reader’s Companion", Cracow, 1932). Fr. Pirożyński was above all a spiritual guide, tutor and publicist taking care about moral education of the youth, concerned about its preparation for family, social and civic life. The article draws attention to premises leading the Redemptorist to comprise a catalogue of Polish and foreign novels evaluated from the point of view of ethics rather than literary criticism. It gives charac-teristics and examples of literary works with positive, negative or neutral evaluation. It also presents interwar and contemporary reviews of Fr. Pirożyński’s publications and emphasises strong relations of the manual to the Church teaching.