Calling all bookworms

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I’m in a reading slump. I need some reading suggestions. Just an FYI – I’m not a fan of Sci-Fi. TIA!
 
Have you read The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade ?
 
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Hello, your question is very general. Any pointers would be useful!
 
I would suggest it, I haven’t read it in over a decade but it’s really the only novel that actually had an impact on my life, it has a Catholic theme.
 
@nkelly, I read a lot of different genres. Novels, memoirs, historical fiction, politics, apologetics…
 
Have you read Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI ?

Also, “Into the Silent Land,” by Martin Laird is a great book on interior prayer.

Jim
 
The Holy Bible

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Documents of Vatican II

The way of the Pilgrim

The Philokalia
 
‘If On a Winter’s Night A Traveller’ by Italo Calvino.

‘The Makioka Sisters’ by Junichiro Tanizaki.

‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami.

(by the way the first and last of these have some fantasy elements but I wouldn’t call them science fiction per se, more like mysteries).
 
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“Such is my Beloved” by Morley Callaghan - about a priest who befriends two prostitutes, and develops feelings of agape towards them and tries everything he can to get them out of the sex trade. It’s a Canadian novel, but well written.

The Republic by Plato is a classic. If you haven’t read it once in your life, you must absolutely.

“A Handful of Dust” by Evelyn Waugh. It details a devoted husband whose wife gives up on him, the death of a child, and the high life in the early-mid 1900’s.
 
My Antonia-Willa Cather [The only book I have read that made me cry. And I’ve read a lot of books]
About a Bohmian girl who grows into a woman in 19th Century prairie Nebraska. Considered by some to be Cather’s masterpiece. I would agree.

Angels in Iron-Nicholas Prata
A historical novel about the siege of Malta pitting the Ottoman Turks against a few Knights Hospitallers. True events.

Scoop-Evelyn Waugh
A story of a mistaken identity of a newspaper reporter. A nice satire of the News business.
 
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Anything by CS Lewis. Mere Christianity, the problem of pain, etc.

I really liked “Triumph: The power and glory of the Roman Catholic Church” by hw Crocker

Democracy: the god that failed by hans herrman hoppe is also good
 
“Island of the World” by Michael D. O’Brien.

Any novel by him, Catholic themes, is awesome.
 
One of my favorite books is Gideon’s Spies.
It is a factual book on the Mossad.

Another is the Aquarians of Pyongyang.
A little depressing, but a great insight into North Korea.

Metro 2034
Fiction book. A society of opposing groups who struggle to thrive in the extensive Moscow subway system after global nuclear warfare. Good read. Well written and edited.
 
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I just finished “Catherine of Sienna” by Sigrid Undset
 
I started to re-read the Horatio Hornblower sagas by C.S. Forester.
 
I suggest you establish a library budget for Bible studies and carefully build up that library with quality volumes.
 
@thelittlelady almost any genre and I like both fiction and non fiction. I’m just not a big fan of YA or sci-fi.
 
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