A Few Ideas for Lenten Reading

Looking for a good book? Try these ideas for Lenten holy reading.

Christian Classics

The Steps of Humility and Pride, St. Bernard

Confessions, St. Augustine

On the Incarnation, St. Athanasius

The Story of a Soul, St. Therese

Practicing the Presence of God, Brother Lawrence

Interior Castle, St. Theresa

Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich


Modern Classics

Jesus Christus, Romano Guardini

Jesus of Nazareth, Benedict XVI

Faith, Hope, Love, Josef Pieper

The Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper

The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day

The Seven Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton


Adult Novels

The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene

Viper’s Tangle, Francois Mauriac

Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsen

In this House of Brede, Rumer Godden

Silence, Shusako Endo

The Song at the Scaffold, Gertrude von Le Fort

Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis

Perelandra, C.S. Lewis


Poetry

St. John of the Cross

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot

Collected Poems, Czesław Miłosz 


Youth

A Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

The Trumpeter of Krakow, Eric Kelly

The Kitchen Madonna, Rumer Godden