18 books like The Power and the Glory

What to read after The Power and the Glory — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction, History

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

Mo scéal féin Peadar Ó Laoghaire · 1910 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate An autobiography (“My Own Story”). Shares Catholic Church, Clergy, Social life and customs, History

Lourdes Émile Zola · 1894 · ★ 4.0 · 598p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Catholics, Catholic Church, Clergy with this book.

Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe · 1686 · ★ 3.7 · 123p · ≈ 4h · Challenging During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. Shares British and irish fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction, History

The uncommercial traveller Charles Dickens · 1776 · ★ 3.5 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Challenging A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches. Shares British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, History

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens · 1822 · ★ 3.9 · 434p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes to London, where he meets a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin, discovers the secrets of… Shares Classic, British and irish fiction, Historical Fiction, History

Coniston Winston Churchill · 1906 · ★ 3.6 · 566p · ≈ 18h · Moderate This book is about a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was. The Era of the first six presidents had closed, and a new Era had begun. I am speaking of political Eras. Certain gentlemen, with a pious belief in democracy, but with a firmer determination to get on top, arose,—and got on… Shares British and irish fiction, Historical Fiction

The Wisdom of Father Brown Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1913 · ★ 3.8 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "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

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Shares Historical Fiction with this book.

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Social life and customs, History with this book.

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, History

Thy brother's wife Andrew M. Greeley · 1982 · ★ 3.8 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Catholic Church, Clergy with this book.

The master-Christian Marie Corelli · 1900 Shares Catholic Church, Clergy with this book.

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