Church Fathers

I keep seeing people saying that we should read the Church Fathers - and that reading the Church Fathers turned many a Protestant into a Catholic.

I've read some of the works of the Church Fathers, but to be honest, I've often been confused about who is included among the Fathers.

In his book The Father Know Best, Jimmy Akin lists some 100 of them! 

I did find a list on one site listing the early Doctors of the Church who were Church Fathers:

 

St. Ambrose (340–397), 

St. Jerome (347–420), 

St. Augustine (354–430)  

Pope Saint Gregory the Great (540–604)
St. Basil the Great (329–379)

St. Athanasius (296–373)

St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389)

St. John Chrysostom (347–407)

I've also seen others named as significant Fathers:

St. Ignatius of Antioch 

St. Polycarp of Smryna

St. Irenaeus of Lyons

St. Justin Martyr 

Pope St. Clement I

There are more. 

As I said, I've read the works of some of them - St. Augustine, St. Ignatius, and St. Polycarp.

I have to read the works of some of the others. And Akins's book.