Books on Catholic life and Culture [Non-Fiction, fiction below]
About 95% of these titles I reviewed on Amazon. Remember that you can catch some excellent sales under the “used book” links in Amazon’s dashboard. Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone [2021] by James Martin, SJ [currently Amazon top 1%] New Seeds of Contemplation [1949] by Thomas Merton A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus [1991] by John P. Meier Doors to the Sacred: A Historical Introduction to Sacraments in the Catholic Church [2014 edition] by Joseph Martos Sin in the Sixties: Catholics and Confession 1955-1975 [2022] by Maria C. Morrow A History of Catholic Theological Ethics [2022] by James F. Keenan The Story of Christianity Volume One: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation [2010] by Justo L. Gonzalez John XXIII: Pope of the Century [2005] by Peter Hebblethwaite Why Catholics Can’t Sing [2013 revised edition] by Thomas Day Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II [2012] by Richard R. Gaillardetz and Catharine Clifford A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O’Connor [2003] by Charles F. Duffy Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors [2006] by James Reston, Jr. The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene [2021] by Richard Greene Being the Body of Christ in an Age of Management [2016] by Lyndon Shakespeare [currently Amazon top 3%] Light of Assisi: The Story of Saint Clare [2021] by Sister Margaret Carney, OSF The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul [2021] by James Carroll [currently Amazon top 2%] Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction [2020] by Nick Ripatrazone Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church [2018] by John W. O’Malley Seminary: A Search [2014] by Paul Hendrickson The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe [1981] by Steven Ozment What Happened at Vatican II [2008] by John W. O’Malley Free and Faithful: My Life in the Catholic Church [1998] by Father Bernard Haring The Church and the Age of Reason [1648-1789] by Gerald R. Cragg Vatican Council II [1968] by Xavier Rynne [pseudo name] Medieval History: A New History [2015] by Kevin Madigan Francis of Assisi: A New Biography [2012] by Augustine Thompson The Inner Life of Priests [2012] by Gerald J. McGlone and Len Sperry The Early Church [1993] by Henry Chadwick The Resurrection of the Messiah: A Narrative Commentary on the Resurrection Accounts in the Four Gospels [2013] by Francis J. Moloney Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages [1990 edition] by R.W. Southern] Confirmation: How a Sacrament of God’s Grace Became All About Us [2013] by Timothy R. Gabrielli Trent: What Happened at the Council [2013] by John W. O’Malley Theology: The Basics 3rd Edition [2011] by Alister McGrath Vows; The Story of a Priest, a Nun, and their Son [2005] by Peter Manseau When the Sisters Said Farewell: The Transition of Leadership in Catholic Elementary Schools [2012] by S.J. Michael Caruso The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah [1983] by Charles Fensham Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics [2008] by Margaret Farley Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations [2017] by Kenneth R. Himes, Editor Robert Bellarmine: Saint and Scholar [1961] by James Brodrick Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics [2012] by Ross Douthat 1,2 Chronicles [1994] J.A. Thompson A History of the Jews [1988] by Paul Johnson [currently Amazon top 1%] Sacred Reading: The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina [1996] by Michael Casey The College Student’s Introduction to Christology [1996] by William P. Loewe Calvin [2009] by F. Bruce Gordon How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower [2009] by Adrian Goldsworthy Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII [2008] by Charles R. Gallagher 2 Kings Commentary [1986] T.R. Hobbs 1 Kings Commentary [2004] by Simon John Devries The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel [2000] by Robert Alter [currently Amazon top 2%] An Introduction to Catholic Ethics [2003] by Lucien Longtin The Reformation: A History [2004] by Diarmaid MacCulloch Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture [since 1700] [1991] by Jaroslav Pelikan The Gospel of Matthew: Sacra Pagina Series [1991] by Daniel J. Harrington Jean Gerson and the Last Medieval Reformation [2005] by Brian Patrick McGuire Cure D’Ars Today: St. John Vianney [1988] by Father George Rutler Fiction by Catholic Authors about Catholic Life, Values, and Conversion [adult content] I have not reviewed every novel here but was captivated by them all. My favorite: Morte D’Urban. This colorful tale of an inept religious order in the Midwest going under for the count just before Vatican II was the best-selling novel in the U.S. in the early 1960’s. The End of the Affair [1954] by Graham Greene [currently Amazon top 1%] The Quiet American [1954] by Graham Greene [currently Amazon top 1%] After This [2007] by Alice McDermott The Cloister: A Novel [2018] by James Carroll A History of Loneliness: A Novel [2015] by John Boyne The Edge of Sadness [1961] by Edwin O’Connor The Leisure Seeker [2009] by Michael Zadoorian The Malefactors [1956] by Caroline Gordon The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse [2016] by Louise Edrich Morte D’Urban [1962] by J.F. Powers Wheat that Springeth Green [1989] by J.F. Powers Souls and Bodies [1980] by David Lodge
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