18 books like Lourdes

What to read after Lourdes — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Devil's Advocate Morris West · 1959 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The Devil's Advocate, Morris West's best-selling novel, is a deft exploration of the meaning of faith. In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacomo Nerone has inspired talk of saint­hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate—and to try to untangle the web of facts, rumors, and outright lies that surround Nerone's… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

The Power and the Glory Graham Greene · 1940 · ★ 4.0 · 154p · ≈ 5h · Challenging One of Greene’s most powerful novels, the book takes as its theme the era of religious suppression in Mexico during the early 1930’s. An unnamed Catholic priest, an alcoholic with a shameful past in search of either oblivion or redemption, travels through Mexico administering the rites of the church to the poor landless peasants, hunted by a remorseless police officer and always in fear of being… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1913 · ★ 3.8 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awful complication." "It is indeed a hideous enigma," said Dr. Hood. "This young James Todhunter," continued the cleric, "is a very decent man so far as I know; but then nobody knows very much. He is a… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

Thy brother's wife Andrew M. Greeley · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The direction of Paul and Sean Cronin's lives was shaped the day their father, a self-made multimillionaire, decided that one of his boys would grow up to be a cardinal while the other would become president of the United States.For his elder son, Paul, the father had even chosen a wife—the beautiful Nora, who had come to the Cronin home as an orphan child years before. Obediently, and with a… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

The master-Christian Marie Corelli · 1900 This book by Marie Corelli is a fictional account on scandals in social morals and traditional religious beliefs. Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Es gibt kein anderes Leben Brian Moore · 1993 · ★ 3.9 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "Father Paul Michel, a Canadian missionary on the desperately poor Caribbean island of Ganae, rescues a black child from abject poverty and sets him on a road toward a dramatic and dangerous future as a revolutionary Catholic priest and, later, as the first democratically elected leader in a land of dictators and despair." "Jeannot, as Father Paul calls him, is young and brilliant, a messianic… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

Apologia pro vita sua John Henry Newman · 1860 · ★ 4.1 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley launched the most scathing attacks against Newman and this was Newman's brilliant response. A spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua explores the very depths and nature of Christianity. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

The Loney Andrew Michael Hurley · 2014 · ★ 3.3 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate 300 pages ; 21 cm Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church

The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough · 1977 · ★ 4.3 · 698p · ≈ 23h · Moderate The Thorn Birds is a 1977 best-selling novel by Australian author Colleen McCullough. Set primarily on Drogheda – a fictional sheep station in the Australian Outback named after Drogheda, Ireland – the story focuses on the Cleary family and spans the years 1915 to 1969. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy

Mo scéal féin Peadar Ó Laoghaire · 1910 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An autobiography (“My Own Story”). Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Virgin James Patterson · 1980 · ★ 3.8 · 343p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The #1 bestseller Pop Goes the Weasel proved once again that James Patterson is an undisputed master of suspense. Now he has written his most compelling and surprising thriller ever. . . .Cradle & All In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the… Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church

The scapegoat Daphne du Maurier · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Someone jolted my elbow as I drank and said, 'Je vous demande pardon, ' and as I moved to give him space he turned and stared at me and I at him, and I realized, with a strange sense of shock and fear and nausea all combined, that his face and voice were known to me too well.I was looking at myself."Two men--one English, the other French--meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are… Shares: France, Continental european fiction, Travel

Là-bas Joris-Karl Huysmans · 1890 · ★ 4.0 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly… Shares: France, Continental european fiction, Classic Literature

La Symphonie pastoral André Gide · 1919 · 145p · ≈ 4h · Challenging La neige qui n'a pas cesse de tomber depuis trois jours, bloque les routes. Je n'ai pu me rendre a R... ou j'ai coutume depuis quinze ans de celebrer le culte deux fois par mois. Ce matin trente fideles seulement se sont rassembles dans la chapelle de La Brevine. Shares: Clergy, Continental european fiction, Classic Literature

Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather · 1732 · ★ 4.0 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Demanding In 1851 French Bishop Latour and his friend Father Valliant are dispatched to New Mexico to reawaken its slumbering Catholicism. Moving along the endless prairies, Latour spreads his faith the only way he knows-- gently, although he must contend with the unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Over nearly 40 years, they leave converts and… Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis · 1900 · ★ 4.3 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Dom Casmurro, publicado pela primeira vez em 1899, é um dos romances realistas mais importantes de Machado de Assis, considerado por alguns sua obra-prima. O livro narra a história de Bento Gonçalves desde sua juventude, abordando temas como religião, adultério e ambiguidade moral. Shares: Catholics, Catholic Church

Assassini Thomas Gifford · 1924 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Mientras el Papa agoniza, se producen una serie de misteriosos asesinatos, un ex-jesuita y una monja averiguan estrategias políticas inconfesables, confabulaciones que desde tiempos de los Borgia se dan en la Iglesia Católica Shares: Catholic Church, Clergy

La reine Margot Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · ★ 4.3 · 502p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Roman historique - roman biographique. Shares: France, Continental european fiction

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