8 Top classics books like In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

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In This House of Brede

By: Rumer Godden

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot…

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1. A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

By: C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A heart-rending love story described by its author as “the spiritual autobiography of a love rather… read more

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"Death is no respecter of love."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"Corruption is never compulsory."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"Honesty is better than any easy comfort."

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

"A longing for eternity is built-in to us all"

-C.S. Lewis, A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy, and Triumph

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2. Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux

By: Dorothy Day

3.99

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

...the fruit of much research and study on Dorothy's part, captures the heart of the message of Sai… read more

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  • religion
  • catholic
"The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!"

-Dorothy Day, Therese: A Life of Therese of Lisieux

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3. Green Dolphin Street

By: Elizabeth Goudge

4.22

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A haunting love story set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the 19th century. William Oz… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Someone once said to me,"

-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

"Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word. . . .that tries to describe something that can’t be described but is the only thing worth ha…"

-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect…"

-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

"You're mad, you missionaries,' ejaculated Tai Haruru angrily. 'What good do you think you do, crawling out to the extremities of all the different world's ends and dying there like lizards spiked on …"

-Elizabeth Goudge, Green Dolphin Street

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4. The Reed of God

By: Caryll Houselander

4.59

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

First published in 1944 and now a spiritual classic for Catholics across the globe, The Reed of God… read more

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  • classics
  • religion
  • catholic
"The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ."

-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God

"Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down."

-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God

"Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only does everything in heaven and earth become new, but the lover himself becomes new. It is literally like the sap rising i…"

-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God

"... those who seek the lost Lord will find traces of His being and beauty in all that men have made, from music and poetry and sculpture to the gingerbread men in the pâtisseries, from the final calc…"

-Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God

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5. Introduction to the Devout Life

By: Francis de Sales

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Written for Christians in every walk of life and for every age, St. Francis De Sales' classic work … read more

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  • classics
  • religion
  • catholic
"Be who you are and be that well."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"The desire and pursuit of virtue tends to make us virtuous, but the desire and pursuit of honors tends to make us odious and despicable."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

"If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show."

-Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life

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6. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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7. Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

By: Jacques Philippe

4.74

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This classic work is a short treatise on peace of heart in a world where restlessness and anxiety t… read more

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  • religion
  • catholic
"Evil is a mystery, a scandal and it will always be so."

-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

"The sign of spiritual progress is not so much never falling as it is being able to lift oneself up quickly after one falls."

-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

"In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the L…"

-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

"The Lord can leave us wanting relative to certain things (sometimes judged indispensable in the eyes of the world), but He never leaves us deprived of what is essential: His presence, His peace and a…"

-Jacques Philippe, Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart

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8. Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)

By: Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureat… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: None , Jean du Coeur de Jésus d'Elbée

4.65

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

A personal retreat based on St. Therese of Lisieux. A wondrous distillation of the teachings of St.… read more

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  • religion
  • catholic
"How can we not ask at every turn, 'What is going to happen? How will this turn out?' The main thing is not to consent consciously to anxiety or a troubled mind. The moment you realize you are worryin…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I assure you, we are bathed in love and mercy. We each have a Father, a Brother, a Friend, a Spouse of our soul, Center and King of our hearts, Redeemer and Savior; bent down over us, over our weakne…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Then keep your confidence in the infinite mercy of the Savior. Say, like one mother I know who was distressed by the conduct of her children, 'Jesus, You love them too much not to save them.' Thank H…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have often thought, during these conferences, about the comment that Maurice Maignan, one of the first companions of Ozanam, made after a retreat: "One thought strikes me. All the means of sanctifi…"

-None, I Believe in Love: A Personal Retreat Based on the Teaching of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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10. In This House of Brede

By: Rumer Godden

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

This extraordinarily sensitive and insightful portrait of religious life centers on Philippa Talbot… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • literature
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • catholic
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11. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

By: Ernest J. Gaines

2.00

Format: 88 pages,

"This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

13. Helena

By: Evelyn Waugh , Amy Welborn , George Weigel

3.43

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

"In Helena, the play of words and the fireworks, the exquisite descriptions of landscapes, and even… read more

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14. The Man Born to Be King: A Play-Cycle on the Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

4.14

Format: None pages,

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15. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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16. He Leadeth Me

By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty , Walter Ciszek

4.63

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging… read more

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  • religion
  • catholic
"Solo puedo describir la experiencia de conversión como una sensación de «dejarse llevar», de renunciar a todo esfuerzo o incluso a mi deseo de tomar las riendas de mi propia vida. Aunque suene demasi…"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

"La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de qu…"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

"Durante esos largos de años de soledad y sufrimiento, Dios me condujo a una comprensión de la vida y de su amor que solo quienes la han experimentado son capaces de entender. Me despojó de muchos de …"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

"Quizá Dios tenga que recordarnos con tremenda claridad que eso es exactamente lo que quería decirnos con esas palabras aparentemente tan simples del Sermón de la Montaña: «No estéis preocupados por v…"

-Walter J. Ciszek, He Leadeth Me

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17. The Ghost Keeper

By: Natalie Morrill

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Winner of the HarperCollins/UBC Prize for Best New Fiction, this powerful, sweeping novel set in Vi… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Charis in the World of Wonders

By: Marly Youmans

3.99

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

"When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline

By: AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

4.72

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The AmblesideOnline Advisory began as a band of mothers who followed God and the vitalizing ideas o… read more

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20. Works of Mercy

By: Sally Thomas

4.45

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Kirsty Sain, aging housekeeper for the newly arrived young priest, assumes that despite this person… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture by Haley Stewart

21. The Grace of Enough: Pursuing Less and Living More in a Throwaway Culture

By: Haley Stewart

4.06

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (first place, backlist beauty). Do you eve… read more

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  • religion
  • catholic

9 must-read fiction books like In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

Transform Your Habits

Green Dolphin Street

Elizabeth Goudge

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Hannah Coulter

Wendell Berry

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Kristin Lavransdatter (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1-3)

Tiina Nunnally , Brad Leithauser , Sigrid Undset

4.12

Transform Your Habits

In This House of Brede

Rumer Godden

3.98

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18 Top nonfiction books like Six Voices, One Story: The Heart of AmblesideOnline by AmblesideOnline Education Foundation

Transform Your Habits

The Mind of the Maker

Dorothy L. Sayers

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution

Natalie S. Bober

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Consider This: Charlotte Mason and the Classical Tradition

Karen Glass

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Living Page: Keeping Notebooks With Charlotte Mason

Laurie Bestvater

3.94

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