List of Books

We haven't updated this blog in a long time, since the Prior has not had much opportunity to write up notes from our discussions. However, there have been several requests for lists of books that we have read. I provide that here, with my own (hopefully not too subjective) rating system. Three stars means that the majority of the group felt that it was an outstanding book. Two stars is a generally good rating, but not necessarily a recommended read. One star means that there were a few people who really didn't like the book.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh ***
Woman of the Pharisees by Francois Mauriac **1/2
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene ***
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy **
Kristen Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset ***
Silence by Shusaku Endo ** 1/2
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky * 1/2
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos ***
Father Brown Omnibus by G.K. Chesterton **
Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor ** 1/2
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell *
Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh **
Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien **
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt ***
The Crucible by Arthur Miller ** 1/2
The Place of the Lion by Charles Williams *
Helena by Evelyn Waugh **
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene ** 1/2
The Teutonic Knights by Henryk Sienkiewicz ***
In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden ** 1/2
The Stream and the Sapphire by Denise Levertov
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen ** 1/2
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy ** 1/2
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin ***
Glittering Images by Susan Howatch **
excerpts from The Divine Comedy by Dante (I won't even pretend to give this a rating)
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticut ** 1/2
Without Blood by Alessandro Baricco ***
The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset ***
poetry of R.S. Thomas ** 1/2
Killings by Andre Dubus ** 1/2
The Painted Veil by Somerset Maugham ** 1/2
Cosmas, or the Love of God by Pierre de Calan ** 1/2
Viper's Tangle by Francois Mauriac ***
A Danger to the State by Philip Trower **
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather ** 1/2
Turmoil and Truth by Philip Trower **
The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark ** 1/2
North of Hope by Jon Hassler **
The Clown by Heinrich Boll ***
Exiles by Ron Hansen *