Good fiction books with a Catholic theme

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Good call on The Great Gatsby. It is a beautiful story, and very Catholic. Fitzgerald was a lapsed Catholic but retained a strong sense of morality. Moreover, it is a very American story and beautifully written.
I love Shusaku Endo. Silence is depressing, but it is based on a lot of historical research–it was a terrible time of persecution in Japan. I like his Deep River the best, a contemporary novel about a young Japanese Catholic man, caught in secular society.
I’d also recommend Mr. Ives Christmas, especially here in Advent. A lovely novel of tragedy and forgiveness.
And oh how Iove Brideshead Revisited. I highly recommend the famous 10 hour 1970s movie, available on CD. It is a remarkable, deeply Catholic story.
 
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If you like historical early Christian fiction like The Silver Chalice, there are a bunch of other similar books:

The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiwicz
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist
Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell
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I did like it, and I haven’t found anything really similar.

Thank you for the recommendations! I’ll have to look into them.
 
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

It’s not necessarily Catholic, but it’s a very interesting and I’d say eye opening read
 
Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter is a classic of Catholic literature, an historical novel based on careful research.
 
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The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade.

I’m unsure if he was Catholic but it’s a wonderful novel.
I haven’t read it in well over a decade, it’s very long but well worth reading if you have the time.
 
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