18 books like Out to Canaan

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

These high, green hills Jan Karon · 1996 · ★ 4.3 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Life in a small Southeastern mountain town, centered on its colorful Episcopal minister. He is Timothy Kavanagh, 63, a lifetime bachelor who finally takes the plunge and gets married to his vivacious neighbor, Cynthia. By the author of A Light in the Window. Shares: Church membership, Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford

Light from heaven Jan Karon · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 525p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Jan Karon saved the best for last - the final novel in the Mitford Years series. Shares: Church membership, Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford

At home in Mitford Jan Karon · 1994 · ★ 4.5 · 446p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Welcome to Mitford, North Carolina. Meet Father Tim and all the other fun characters in Mitford and you won't want to leave. This is the beginning of a journey with Father Tim through joys, trials, and just plain fun. You won't want to put it down once you enter this quaint, little town. Sit back and relax with a hot cup of tea. Shares: Church membership, Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford

A common life Jan Karon · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The creator of the Mitford stories goes back through time to relate the wedding of Father Tim Kavanagh to Cynthia Coppersmith. Shares: Church membership, Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford

A new song Jan Karon · 1999 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In the fifth novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's beloved series, fans old and new will discover that when it comes to Mitford, absence only make the heart grow fonder...Mitford’s longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, has retired. But new challenges and adventures await when he agrees to serve as interim minister of a small church on Whitecap Island. He and his wife,… Shares: Church membership, Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford

A light in the window Jan Karon · 1995 · ★ 4.5 · 382p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This book is filled with the miracles and mysteries of everyday life. And the affirmation of what some of us already know: Life in a small town is rarely quiet. And absolutely never boring. Shares: Church membership, Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford

Shepherds abiding Jan Karon · 2003 · ★ 4.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Having pursued intellectual matters all of his life, Father Tim discovers the joys of working with his hands when he discovers a worn-out nativity scene and begins to restore it. Shares: Episcopalians, Timothy Kavanagh, Mitford, Clergy

Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years #4) Jan Karon · 1997 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Get to know the lovable cast of characters that populate the small town of Mitford in this inspirational novel in Jan Karon's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Millions of readers have come home to Mitford, the little town with the big heart, whose endearing and eccentric residents have become like family members. But now change is coming to the hamlet. Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and… Shares: Mitford, North Carolina, Domestic fiction, Christian Fiction

The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope · 1867 · ★ 4.2 · 648p · ≈ 21h · Demanding The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 6: The Last Chronicle of Barset Shares: Clergy in fiction, Clergy, Domestic fiction

The final beast Frederick Buechner · 1965 · ★ 4.0 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A young widowed minister's actions are misconstrued when he leaves his parish, seemingly because he is in search of a wild young matron in his congregation. Shares: Clergy, Christian Fiction

Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope · 1815 · ★ 4.1 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester. Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope… Shares: Clergy in fiction, Clergy

Delilah Shelia M. Goss · 2011 · ★ 4.9 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Thirty and fine, Samson Judges is preacher of the Peaceful Rest Missionary Baptist Church . He's beloved by his congregation, but temptation is about to strike in the form of divalicious beauty Delilah, and only the Good Lord knows if Samson will be able to keep his head on straight with her. Especially considering he's about to be married to Julia Rivers. Julia helped shape Samson into the man… Shares: Clergy, Christian Fiction

Annals of the parish, or John Galt · 1821 · ★ 5.0 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The book is narrated by the Reverend Micah Balwhidder, a Presbyterian minister in the Ayrshire town of Dalmailing, and covers the years 1760 to 1810, the period of Robert Burns and the Industrial Revolution, when the economic and moral shape of Scottish life was changing in ways both explicit and invisible. The novel charts all this: the work of smugglers at Troon, new births in the parish, old… Shares: Clergy in fiction, Clergy

The legacy of Cain Wilkie Collins · 1859 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor. Shares: Clergy in fiction, Clergy

Jim the boy Tony Earley · 2000 · ★ 3.9 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A fatherless ten-year-old boy comes of age in a Depression-era, southern farming community in this charming and humorous debut novel.A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"Rich and satisfying . . . A novel that perfectly captures the innocence and confusion and wonder of childhood." —Chicago TribuneHailed as one of those rare works with the power to enchant readers of all ages, this luminous… Shares: North Carolina, Domestic fiction, Christian Fiction

In the beauty of the lilies John Updike · 1996 · ★ 3.7 · 491p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister suddenly loses his faith and leaves the pulpit to become a salesman, he becomes a movie addict as… Shares: Clergy, Domestic fiction, Christian Fiction

Doctor Thorne Anthony Trollope · 1858 · ★ 4.2 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 3: Dr. Thorne Mary Thorne, orphaned (and illegitimate) niece of Dr. Thorne, has long been a favorite at Greshamsbury House--until Lady Arabella Gresham learns that her only son Frank is in love with Mary. The unhappy Mary is banished forthwith, because the Gresham family fortunes are so depleted that Frank must marry money. Frank, however, is one of the few… Shares: Clergy in fiction, Clergy

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: Clergy in fiction, Clergy

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