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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

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

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

poetry of R.S. Thomas

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

Song of Roland

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 Cloud of Unknowing

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

The Man on a Donkey: Volumes 1 & 2 by H.F.M. Prescott

Absalom, Absalom!  by William Faulkner

Morte D’Urban by J.F. Powers

Under the Sun of Satan by Georges Bernanos

First volume of The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset

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