18 books like The Devil's Advocate

What to read after The Devil's Advocate — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh · 1945 · ★ 4.0 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly-disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Enchanted first by Sebastian at Oxford, then by his doomed Catholic family, in particular his remote sister, Julia, Charles… Shares: Catholics

Lourdes Émile Zola · 1894 · ★ 4.0 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Lourdes is the first of Zola's Three Cities collection. The story follows the pilgrimage of Pierre Froment while challenging the suitability of religious fervor. 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, Christian Fiction

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, Christian Fiction

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

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, Christian Fiction

Godric Frederick Buechner · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Godric is the tenth novel by the American author and theologian, Frederick Buechner. Set in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the novel tells the semi-fictionalised life story of the medieval Roman Catholic saint Godric of Finchale. It was first published in 1980 by Atheneum, and was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. Shares: Christian saints, Christian Fiction

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

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

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

Las Sandalias del Pescador Morris West · 1777 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Demanding A story about the problems of a newly elected Pope from the Ukraine who has spent many years as a prisoner of the Russians in Siberia. He knows, and has the grudging respect of, Russia's Premier. A subplot of a much more temporal nature is the story of an American newspaperman and a young Italian matron. Shares: Catholic Church, Christian Fiction

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

Exercitia spiritualia Saint Ignatius of Loyola · 1548 · ★ 5.0 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Demanding This new edition, with its accompanying introduction and commentary, is intended for use as a manual by those making, directing or studying the "Exercises". In the case of retreatants, their chief aim is to foster the experience of prayer, prayerful deliberation and cooperation with God's graces which St. Ignatius intended his Exercises to induce in those who are making them. A retreat,… Shares: Christian saints, Catholic Church

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

The Big Fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas · 1948 · 581p · ≈ 19h · Challenging The story traces Peter's journey from self-sufficient fisherman to his dependency on a risen Christ. It also presents another story of redemption and forgiveness, as he takes in a young Arab/Jewish girl, Fara. As they both learn of Jesus, it changes their lives. Shares: Christian saints, Christian Fiction

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