6 must-read fiction books like Sophia House by Michael D. O'Brien

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Sophia House

By: Michael D. O'Brien

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Sophia Houseis set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refug…

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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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  • christian
  • religion
"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. Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

By: Pope Benedict XVI

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The momentous third and final volume in the Pope’s international bestselling Jesus of Nazareth seri… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
  • catholic
"En el humilde pesebre de la gruta de Belén está ya este esplendor cósmico: aquí ha venido entre nosotros el verdadero primogénito del universo."

-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

"El evangelista (Lc 2,13-14) dice que los ángeles «hablan». Pero para los cristianos estuvo claro desde el principio que el hablar de los ángeles es un cantar, en el que se hace presente de modo palpa…"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

"Just as the genealogies break off at the end, because Jesus was not begotten by St. Joseph, but was truly born of the Holy Spirit from the Virgin Mary, so it now can be said of us that our true "gene…"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

"Gracia y libertad se compenetran recíprocamente, y no podemos expresar la acción de una sobre la otra mediante fórmulas claras. Es verdad que no podríamos amar si antes no hubiésemos sido amados por …"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

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3. 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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  • christian
  • 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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4. 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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  • novels
  • 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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5. 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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  • christian
  • 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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6. With God in Russia

By: Walter J. Ciszek , Daniel L. Flaherty

3.60

Format: 316 pages,

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  • religion
  • catholic
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7. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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8. The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

By: Henri J.M. Nouwen

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, cat… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
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9. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • religion
  • fiction
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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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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  • religion
  • catholic
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • religion
  • fiction
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12. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
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13. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke

4.42

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
  • catholic
"Love lives only by sacrifice"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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14. Sophia House

By: Michael D. O'Brien

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Sophia Houseis set in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Pawel Tarnowski, a bookseller, gives refug… read more

Similar categories in Michael D. O'Brien's Sophia House book and Michael D. O'Brien's Sophia House

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • catholic
  • novels

15. Lord of the World

By: Robert Hugh Benson

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Paperback

Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbur… read more

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16. The Jeweler's Shop: A Meditation on the Sacrament of Matrimony Passing on Occasion Into a Drama

By: Pope John Paul II , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love is "one of the greatest dramas of human existence," writes Pope John Paul II. In this illumina… read more

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17. Interior Freedom

By: Jacques Philippe , None

4.71

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Interior Freedom leads one to discover that even in the most difficult circumstances we possess wit… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
  • catholic
"Ultimately, we can really forgive people only because Christ rose from the dead; his Resurrection is the guarantee that God can cure every wrong and every hurt."

-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom

"Te doy gracias, Dios mío, por todo mi pasado; creo firmemente que, de cuanto he vivido, Tú podrás sacar un bien; no quiero tener ningún pesar y desde hoy me decido a recomenzar desde cero con exactam…"

-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom

"No esperamos que Dios nos haga vivir en plenitud y creamos identidad artificial: el orgullo. O, entre personas de buena voluntad, nos gustaría amar, ser generosos y entregarnos, pero nos vemos atenaz…"

-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom

"Para que nuestra voluntad sea fuerte y dispuesta, necesita verse alimentada por el deseo. Y ese deseo no puede ser poderoso si lo que se desea no se percibe como posible y accesible; porque, si nos r…"

-Jacques Philippe, Interior Freedom

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18. 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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  • christian
  • 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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19. Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father

By: Donald H. Calloway

4.59

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Drawing on the wealth of the Church's living tradition, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, calls on all of u… read more

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  • christian
  • religion
  • catholic
Cover of The Art of Living: The Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love by Edward Sri

20. The Art of Living: The Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love

By: Edward Sri

4.43

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In this new book by bestselling author, Edward Sri, we discover the close connection between growin… read more

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  • religion
  • catholic
Cover of A Hiker's Guide to Purgatory by Michael      Norton

21. A Hiker's Guide to Purgatory

By: Michael Norton

4.34

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

A Hiker's Guide to Purgatory is Norton's first novel. One morning, attorney Dan Geary, seventy-sev… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • christian

16 must-read religion books like Sophia House by Michael D. O'Brien

Transform Your Habits

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

C.S. Lewis , Sheldon Vanauken

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives

Pope Benedict XVI

4.51

Transform Your Habits

Introduction to the Devout Life

Francis de Sales

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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

Jacques Philippe

4.74

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7 best-selling classics books like The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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