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