Calling all bookworms

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@baycityrickl I’m actually a librarian so I like to think my budget is endless. 😉
 
“Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother” by Kate Hennessy is the best biography I’ve read in a long time.

If you like Mary Roach, have you read “Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History” by Bill Schutt?
 
I like cozy mysteries by Mary Daheim, MC Beaton, Leslie Meier, Joanne Fluke, Jenn McKinlay and more
 
You could consider the list of books in the well-known Great Books list, which can be seen at The Master Works of Western Civilization

I presume you weren’t asking about Catholic books in particular. There are also lists of outstanding books, and posters here are suggesting some.
I wouldn’t read some of the books on this list, such as the works by the philosophers Locke and Kant, but of course you could select whatever you like if you use this list.
 
I like what @mdgspencer said— sometimes, when I’m looking for something to read, I’ll find a “top 100 list” of whatever kind of book appeals to me, and start working my way through it. Whether it’s Top 100 Classics, 100 Biographies/Memoirs to Read Before You Die, Top 100 Mystery Novels, 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century, or whatever— pick a list that appeals to you; cross off everything you’ve read on it; and start working to fill in the gaps.

Some of them will be pretty “cool!” and others will be “how in the world did this make it onto anyone’s list?!” and some will be “meh, it’s okay, but it’s overrated” and others will be “wow! I need to reread it again, now that I know where he’s going with his ideas!”
 
I’ve been reading a lot of books on Catholicism over the past couple years. I continue to read them, but sometimes I like to have a break and read something completely different.
 
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I’ve been reading a lot of books on Catholicism over the past couple years. I continue to read them, but sometimes I like to have a break and read something completely different.
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Could I ask you what some of your favorites were? Those less evident that you really get to love and enjoyed overwhelmingly with a sense of surprise and left a long lasting mark contributing to your faith.
 
I love anything by Irish author Maeve Binchy. I own all of her books and have read them all multiple times.

Also American author Jan Karon.
 
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Yup. I haven’t read it. I have also read Cather’s book Death Comes for the Archbishop. Not as good as My Antonia but still…

Also, another good author for the OP, Flannery O’Connor. Especially her short stories. She was a good Catholic.
 
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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 Waugh. And Brideshead Revisited is one of the great Catholic novels. In fact, one of the great novels, period.
 
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