18 books like Titus

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

Joseph und seine Brüder Thomas Mann · 1934 · ★ 5.0 · 1207p · ≈ 40h · Challenging This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner’s great masterpiece is a major literary event. Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts–The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider–as a unified narrative, a “mythological novel” of Joseph’s fall into slavery and his… Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction

Ben-Hur Lewis Wallace · 1961 · ★ 4.1 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Ben-Hur is a heroic story of a fictional hero named Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Jerusalem.  Because of an unfortunate accident, Ben-Hur is sent to slave in the mines while his family is sent to leprosy caves. As Messala (his old friend that became his enemy) is dying from being crushed in a chariot race, he reveals where Ben-Hur's family is. On the road to find them, Ben-Hur meets… Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

The silver Chalice Thomas Bertram Costain · 1952 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate The Silver Chalice is a 1952 English language historical novel by Thomas B. Costain. It is the fictional story of the making of a silver chalice to hold the Holy Grail (itself here conflated with the Holy Chalice) and includes 1st century biblical and historical figures: Luke, Joseph of Arimathea, Simon Magus and his companion Helena, and the apostle Peter. Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

The centurion's wife T. Davis Bunn · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 378p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal story of Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage trapped in a vortex of competing political agendas and private… Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

Eden Hill Bill Higgs · 2016 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Nothing seems to change in Eden Hill, Kentucky, and that's just fine with Virgil T. Osgood. He's been content to raise his family and run the only service station in town. But when a new station is set to open right across the road from Virgil's pumps, he suddenly faces obstacles in his career, his marriage, and his self-worth that he's never even dreamed of.Cornelius Alexander wants his new… Shares: Religious Fiction, Christian Fiction

The last year of the war Shirley Nelson · 1978 · ★ 4.2 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate From the back cover of the 1979 paperback edition: In this haunting novel, a young student at a midwestern Bible college ascends from the dark night of her soul into the light of God's love. The time is 1944; World War II is the external symbol of her inner struggle. No reader will be unmoved by this powerful and original contribution to Christian literature. "Born again" in a conversion… Shares: Bible, 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: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction

Dear and glorious physician Taylor Caldwell · 1959 · ★ 4.3 · 574p · ≈ 19h · Moderate The world-famous novel about the triumphant story of St. Luke, man of science, and Gospel writer Today St. Luke is known as the author of the third Gospel of the New Testament, but two thousand years ago he was Lucanus, a Greek, a man who loved, knew the emptiness of bereavement, and later traveled through the hills and wastes of Judea asking, "What manner of man was my Lord?" And it is of this… Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction

The big fisherman Lloyd C. Douglas · 1948 · 503p · ≈ 16h · 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: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction

A Dangerous Legacy Elizabeth Camden · 2017 · 433p · ≈ 14h · Moderate 513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm Shares: Religious Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt Anne Rice · 2005 · ★ 3.6 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In Israel, in the turbulent first century, a baby is born to a humble Jewish family - but to a great destiny. His is an uneasy childhood, as he begins to come to terms with his extraordinary powers, and the whispered mysteries surrounding his birth. The tyrannical rule of King Herod has driven the family from the Holy Land to the relative safety of cosmopolitan Alexandria. But on Herod's death,… Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction

O telefteos pirasmos Nikos Kazantzakis · 1901 · ★ 4.2 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction

Paradise Regained John Milton · 1671 · ★ 3.7 · 84p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Paradise Regained demonstrates Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama, fortifying not merely our sense of what is beautiful but what is human as well. It leaves readers with no choice but to commit themselves totally with their minds and with their hearts. Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible

Ben Hur Lew Wallace · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Challenging A bestseller since 1880...The classic saga of the Roman EmpireFrom a thrilling sea battle to its famous chariot race to the agony of the Crucifixion, this is the epic tale of a prince who became a slave and by a twist of fate and his own skill-won a chance at freedom. Shares: History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

They Called Her Mrs. Doc Janette Oke · 1992 · ★ 4.1 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Eastern socialite Cassandra Dell Winston was willing to travel to the ends of the earth to be with her husband, Dr. Samuel Smith. But it was still a shock when Sam took her west to a rustic frontier town--the place where They Called Her Mrs. Doc. Shares: Religious Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction

Stars in the Grass Ann Marie Stewart · 2017 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate 455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm Shares: Religious Fiction, Christian Fiction

Kristin Lavransdatter III Sigrid Undset · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 394p · ≈ 13h · Challenging In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political and religious undercurrents of the period. Now in one volume, Tiina Nunnally's award-winning definitive… Shares: Religious Fiction, Historical Fiction

The Wishing Jar Penelope J. Stokes · 2002 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Een weduwe die zorgt voor haar zieke moeder en strijdt met haar dwarse tienerdochter, verwacht dat een huwelijk met een hoogleraar haar leven makkelijker zal maken. Shares: Religious Fiction, Christian Fiction

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