Great Catholic Novels
Discover the best great Catholic novels, from Flannery O'Connor's *The Violent Bear It Away* to Walker Percy's *The Last Gentleman*. Explore timeless fiction with deep faith, morality, and literary brilliance in this curated list.
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The Last Gentleman
by Walker Percy
Will Barrett is the last gentleman, a twenty-five-year-old wanderer from the south living in New York City with no plans for the future and detached from his past--Then!!
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Set in New Orleans, the protagonist is nearly arrested for being a suspicious character and encounters many unfortunate events.
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
A profile of the Lost Generation captures life among the expatriates on Paris' Left Bank during the 1920s, the brutality of bullfighting in Spain, and the moral and spiritual dissolution of a generation.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A mysterious American millionaire tries to recapture the sweetheart of his youth, which results in tragedy.
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The Violent Bear It Away
by Flannery O'Connor
"A back country orphan struggles to defy his uncle's prophesy that he will become a baptist prophet"--NoveList.
