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Twentieth Century Christian Authors
and Books
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Modern Authors
- W. H. Auden, The Complete Poems, The Dryer’s Hand
- George Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
- Willa Cather, Death Comes to the Archbishop
- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, The Man Who Was Thursday
- Paul Claudel, The Satin Slipper, Five Great Odes
- T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party,
Christianity and Culture
- Shusaku Endo, Silence, The Samurai
- Graham Greene, The Power and The Glory
- C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, Screwtape Letters, The Four Loves, etc.
- Denise Levertov, The Sapphire and the Stream
- Francois Mauriac, Viper’s Tangle
- Thomas Merton, The Seven-Story Mountain, Selected Poems
- Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems
- Flannery O’Connor, The Complete Stories, The Violent Bear It Away, Mystery and
Manners
- Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc, The Portal of the Mystery
of Hope
- Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins, Lost in the Cosmos, The Second Coming, Message in
the Bottle, etc.
- J.F. Powers, Selected Stories
- Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
- Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Nobel Lecture
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the RIngs
- Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
- Charles Williams, All Hallows’ Eve, The Place of the Lion, War in Heaven
- Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavranstatter
Contemporary Authors (still living)
- Wendell Berry, Collected Poems, Remembering, Fidelity, Standing By Words
- Doris Betts, Souls Raised From the Dead, The Sharp Teeth of Love
- Frederick Buechner, Godric, Brendan, Son of Laughter
- Scott Cairns, Philokalia, Recovered Body
- David Craig, Mercy’s Face
- Elizabeth Dewberry, Many Things Have Happened Since He Died
- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm
- Andre Dubus, Selected Stories
- Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy, Atticus, A Stay Against Confusion
- Oscar Hijuelos, Mr. Ives’ Christmas
- Geoffrey Hill, New and Collected Poems, Cannan
- Andrew Hudgins, The Neverending
- John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes, Unholy Sonnets
- Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies
- Madeliene L’Engle, The Time Quartet (A Wrinkle in Time, etc.), Walking on
Water
- Paul Mariani, The Great Wheel
- Les Murray, Learning Human: New and Selected Poems
- Kathleen Norris, Dakota, The Cloister Walk, Journey
- Virginia Stem Owens, If You Do Love Old Men, Assault on Eden
- Eric Pankey, Apocrypha, The Late Romances, Cenotaph
- Reynolds Price, Three Gospels
- Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory
- James Calvin Schapp, Romey’s Place, The Secrets of Barneveld Calvary
- Luci Shaw, Angles of Light
- Allen Tate, Collected Poems, Essays of Four Decades
- John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lillies
- Walter Wangerin, The Book of the Dun Cow, The Book of Sorrows, Ragman, etc.
- Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems
- Larry Woiwode, Acts, What I Think I Did
- Tobias Wolff, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs
- Philip Yancy, The Jesus I Never Knew
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