List of All the Books Read by the Catholic Readers Society
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess.
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor.
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger.
Vipers’ Tangle by Francois Mauriac.
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald.
The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Woman of the Pharisees by Francois Mauriac
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Father Brown Omnibus by G.K. Chesterton
Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams
Helena by Evelyn Waugh
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
The Teutonic Knights by Henryk Sienkiewicz
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden
The Stream and the Sapphire by Denise Levertov
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Glittering Images by Susan Howatch
excerpts from The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticut
Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco
The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset
Killings by Andre Dubus
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham
Cosmas, or the Love of God by Pierre de Calan
Viper’s Tangle by Francois Mauriac
A Danger to the State by Philip Trower
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Turmoil and Truth by Philip Trower
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
North of Hope by Jon Hassler
The Clown by Heinrich Boll
Exiles by Ron Hansen
Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Brodeck by Philippe Claudel
Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
Staggerford by Jon Hassler
Les Ames Grises by Philippe Claudel
A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The End of the Modern World by Romano Guardini
Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
The Secret Cardinal by Tom Grace
Edmund Campion by Evelyn Waugh
The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day
Merchant of Venice, by Shake-speare
Confessions by St. Augustine
The Red and the Black by Stendahl
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Brendan by Frederick Beuchner
In Praise of Folly by Erasmus
The Still Point by William Johnston
The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
A Father’s Story, The Fat Girl and Sacraments by Andre Dubus
For the Life of the World by Fr. Alexander Schmemann
Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen
Treason: a Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England by Dena Hunt.
assorted poetry by Dana Gioia, Denise Levertov, Adam Zagajewski, David Jones
White Man/Yellow Man by Shusaku Endo
Stone Upon Stone by Wieslaw Mysliwski
Tobit’s Dog by Michael Nicholas Richard
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O’Connor
Poor, Banished Children by Fiorella de Maria
Iota by T.M. Doran
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Demons by Dostoevsky * (we recommend Pevear and Volokhonsky’s translations)
Lord of the World by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
Lauras by Eugene Vodolazkin
Catholics by Brian Moore
Shadow of His Wings: The True Story of Fr. Gereon Goldmann by Fr. Gereon Goldmann
Utopia by Thomas More
The Secret History by Donna Tart
A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter Miller, Jr.
The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
The Death of Vergil by Hermann Broch
The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
The Woman Who Was Poor by Leon Bloy
Things as They Are by Paul Horgan
Everything to Live For by Paul Horgan
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
The Devil Hates Latin by Katharine Galgano
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
The Cypresses Believe in God by Jose Maria Gironella
The Bridge over San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Seiobo There Below by László Krasznahorkai
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Devil’s Advocate by Morris West
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
This Is Why I Came by Mary Rakow
The Oresteia by Aeschylus
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
The Fall by Albert Camus