My Favorite Catholic Literature

Discover the best Catholic literature with our curated list of favorite books. Explore inspiring spiritual classics, timeless theology, and profound faith-based stories for every Catholic reader.

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Morte D'Urban

by J.F. Powers

Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction. The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who …
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The Stories of J.F. Powers

by J.F. Powers

Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and …
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The Power and the Glory

by Graham Greene

A tormented, alcoholic priest is pursued by an idealistic lieutenant during an anti-clerical persecution in Mexico.
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The Heart of the Matter

by Graham Greene

An assistant police commissioner in a West African coastal town lets passion overrule his honor.
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The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead..." "This is a record of hate …
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Brighton rock

 

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The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

The relentless struggle of the Vietminh guerrillas for independence and the futility of the French gestures of resistance become inseparably meshed with the personal and …
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The moviegoer

 

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The Thanatos Syndrome

by Walker Percy

Returning home to the small Louisiana parish where he had praticed psychiatry, Dr. Tom More quickly notices something strange occuring with the townfolk, a loss …
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Lancelot

 

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The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick

by Donna Tartt

A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • …
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The Penguin Complete Father Brown

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular way of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's …
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The Complete Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories …
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Collected works

 

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Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this …
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The loved one

 

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Decline and Fall

by Evelyn Waugh

Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, …
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Vile bodies

 

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar …
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De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written during the writer's two-year prison term
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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 …