10 must-read fantasy books like The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams

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The Greater Trumps

By: Charles Williams

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making th…

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1. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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2. The Moviegoer

By: Walker Percy

3.65

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."

-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

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3. The Human Comedy

By: William Saroyan , Don Freeman , Michael Farmer

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The place is Ithaca, in California's San Joaquin Valley. The time is World War II. The family is th… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever."

-William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

"Can’t a small boy get caught in a trap without the whole world hanging around?"

-William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

"When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home"

-William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

"The person of a man may leave—or be taken away—but the best part of a good man stays. It stays forever. Love is immortal and makes all things immortal. But hate dies every minute."

-William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

Cover of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra, Oliver Stallybrass

4. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

Cover of Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) by Dorothy L. Sayers

5. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

Cover of The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life by Frederick Buechner

6. The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life

By: Frederick Buechner

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Your remarkable life is happening right here, right now. You may not be able to see it - your life … read more

Similar categories in Frederick Buechner's The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life book and Charles Williams's The Greater Trumps

  • christian
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7. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

By: Jonathan Lethem , G.K. Chesterton

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

G.K. Chesterton's 1908 masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, is a metaphysical thriller, and a det… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
Cover of That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3) by C.S. Lewis

8. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • christian
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9. The Wizard Knight (The Wizard Knight #1-2)

By: Gene Wolfe

4.12

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

THE WIZARD KNIGHT springs from the myths, legends and literature of times past. given a hero's adul… read more

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  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

10. 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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • christian
"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

Cover of Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

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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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • christian
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12. Phantastes

By: George MacDonald

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. L… read more

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  • classics
  • christian
  • literature
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Greater Trumps by Charles  Williams

13. The Greater Trumps

By: Charles Williams

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making th… read more

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  • classics
  • christian
  • novels
  • literature
  • fiction
  • tarot
  • fantasy
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14. The Silmarillion

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Ted Nasmith

4.01

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the an… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
"Nightingales sang about her wherever she went."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"The dawn is brief and the day full often belies its promise."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

"No ames demasiado la obra de tus manos ni las invenciones de tu corazón."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

15. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

By: Susanna Clarke , Charles Vess

1.80

Format: 76 pages,

Following the enormous success of 2004 bestseller and critics' favorite "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norr… read more

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16. The Diary of a Country Priest

By: Georges Bernanos , Remy Rougeau

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

In this classic Catholic novel, Bernanos movingly recounts the life of a young French country pries… read more

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17. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • christian
"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

18. Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?

By: James H. Cone

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. read more

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19. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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20. A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

By: Martin Luther King Jr. , Coretta Scott King , Raphael G. Warnock

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. King As Dr. King prepared fo… read more

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Cover of Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2) by C.S. Lewis

21. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • fantasy
  • christian
"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

15 Best fiction books like The Greater Trumps by Charles Williams

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Flannery O'Connor

3.83

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Walker Percy

3.65

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William Saroyan , Don Freeman , Michael Farmer

4.02

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

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