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A list of famous Catholic authors, especially those who present Catholic themes in their writing. All eras and types of Catholics have been listed including converts, as well as members of the clergy. With the introduction of the Nook, Kindle, and iPad with iBooks, reading is hot again. The Catholic authors on this list wrote everything from novels to non-fiction, to poetry and screenplays. This list is intended to help long-time readers, and newcomers alike with discovering (and rediscovering) some of the best Catholic authors of all time.

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    Aidan Nichols

    Hopkins, Discovering Aquinas, Scattering the Seed, Say It Is Pentecost, The Service of Glory, The Holy Eucharist, Thought of Pope Benedict XVI, The Word Has Been Abroad, Beyond the Blue Glass, No bloodless myth, Divine Fruitfulness, Holy Images, Catholic thought since the Enlightenment, Come to the Father, Light from the east, spirituality for the twenty-first century, The Panther and the Hind, Holy Order, Christendom awake, art of God incarnate, Scribe of the kingdom, Looking at the liturgy, Yves Congar, Rome and the Eastern churches, Epiphany, Abortion and Martyrdom, Lovely, Like Jerusalem, Dominican Gallery, The Splendour of Droctrine, From Newman to Congar, shape of Catholic theology, Byzantine Gospel, theology of Joseph Ratzinger, Redeeming Beauty, A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy, The realm, Theology in the Russian Diaspora More
  2. 2
    1688
    An Essay on Criticism, Eloisa to Abelard, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, Pope, The Selected Poetry of Alexander, The first satire of the second book of Horace, An essay on man, in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke .., Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope, The letters of Pope to Atterbury, Treasury of Alexander Pope, An essay on man, Of the use of riches, The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Works, with his last corrections, additions, and improvements; as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death; together with the commentaries and notes of Mr. Warburton, Of the characters of women, Alexander Pope, Collected poems [of] Alexander Pope, Der Lockenraub. Ein komisches Heldengedicht, An essay on man, in four epistles, Alexander Pope's collected poems, The Rape of the Lock, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, Poems, Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope, Pope, Scriblerus, Dunciad, The Odyssey Of Homer, Literary Criticism of Alexander Pope, English Literature in the 18th Century/Audio Cassettes, Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, The Best of Pope, Selected Poems of Pope, Dunciad Variorium, The Poems of Alexander Pope, Alexander Pope, Ode on St. Cecilia's day, Moral Essays, The Major Works, Of false taste, The Dunciad, variorum, 1729, The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. .., The Dunciad, variorum, An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington, The first epistle of the second book of Horace, imitated, The second epistle of the second book of Horace, The sixth epistle of the first book of Horace imitated, One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight, A select collection of poems, The works .., An epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham, Poetical works, Sober advice from Horace, to the young gentlemen about town, The poetical works of Alexander Pope, Esq, The universal prayer, Pope's epistle Eloisa to Abelard, Pastorals, The Dunciad, Poetry and Prose, The works, Alexander Pope, poems in facsimile, Collected poems, The correspondence of Alexander Pope, Epistles to several persons (Moral essays), Epistle to Bathurst, Essay on criticism, 1709, An essay on man, moral essays and satires, Ethic epistles, satires, &c., A key to the Lock, Letters of Alexander Pope, The new Dunciad, Of the characters of women, 1735, Poems, The prose works of Alexander Pope, The rape observ'd, The rape of the lock, 1714, The rape of the lock, and other poems, Selected prose of Alexander Pope, The temple of fame, The works of Alexander Pope More
    London
    England
  3. 3
    1880
    The Heart of Canada, The Highwayman, The prayer for peace
    Wolverhampton
    England
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    Alice Meynell

    1847
    Prose and Poetry - Centenary Volume
    United Kingdom, England
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    Alice Thomas Ellis

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    1899
    T.S.Eliot, Six American Poets from Emily Dickinson to the Present, Southern Vanguard, Who Owns America?, Three commentaries, Jefferson Davis, Collected Poems, 1919-1976, Mister Pope and Other Poems, Hovering Fly and Other Essays, Fathers More
    Winchester
    United States of America
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    Andrew Greeley

    1928
    Irish Whiskey, Irish Eyes, Sex: The Catholic Experience, When Spirits Come Calling: The Open-Minded Skeptic's Guide to After-Death Contacts, The Book of Love: A Treasury Inspired by the Greatest of Virtues, Happy Are the Peace Makers, Happy Are the Merciful, Faithful Attraction, Happy Are Those Who Mourn, Angels of September, Religion, a Secular Theory, Letters to a Loving God: A Prayer Journal : A Prayer Journal, Neighborhood, American Catholic, occasion of sin, Confessions of a Parish Priest, Star Bright!: A Christmas Story, Irish Lace, Irish Tiger, Angel Light, Fall from Grace, September Song, Second Spring: A Love Story, The Last Catholic In America (The Loyola Classics Series), The Bishop in the West Wing, Search for Maggie Ward, The Bishop and the Missing L Train, Happy Are the Oppressed, Summer at the Lake, The Bottom Line Catechism for Contemporary Catholics, The Great Mysteries : Experiencing Catholic Faith from the Inside Out, Happy Are the Poor in Spirit, Happy Are the Meek, Conversations With Andrew Greeley, Changing Catholic College, Religious Imagination, The Hesitant Pilgrim (American Catholicism after the Council), Religious Indicators, 1940-1985, The Sinai myth, epidemic of joy, Love song, Priests in the United States, The Robe, My Love: A Prayer Journal : A Prayer Journal, The Final Planet, The Cardinal Virtues, The Cardinal Sins, Rite of Spring, Religion As Poetry, Happy Are Those Who Thirst For Justice, Irish Gold, Irish Lace, Irish Wiskey, Ethnic drinking subcultures, Irish Americans, Ecstasy;, The Brother's Wife, Young Catholic Family, No bigger than necessary, God Game, Irish Love, Irish Stew!, Irish Cream, Irish Crystal, Irish Linen, Irish Mist, Irish Gold, The Archbishop in Andalusia, May the wind be at your back: The prayer of St. Patrick, The Bishop in the Old Neighborhood, Golden Years, Confessions of a Parish Priest: An Autobiography, The Making of the Pope 2005, Catholic Myth, The Bishop and Three Kings (Blackie Ryan Novels), A Christmas Wedding, The Bishop Goes to the University, The Catholic Imagination, The Bishop and the Beggar Girl of St. Germain, The Bishop at Sea, Younger Than Springtime, White Smoke: A Novel of Papal Election, Saint Valentines Night, Virtues and Vices: Stories of the Moral Life, Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children, Priests : A Calling in Crisis, Sociology of Religion: A Collection of Readings, Preaching the Funeral Homily: Proclaiming the Gospel of Heavenly Hope, God in the Movies, Contract with an Angel, Happy Are the Clean of Heart, Death in April, The Making of the Popes 1978: The Politics of Intrigue in the Vatican, Thy Brothers Wife, All About Women, Life for a Wanderer, The Jesus Myth, Patience of a Saint, Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest, How to Save the Catholic Church, St. Valentine's Night, The Bible and Us: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together, Catholic High Schools and Minority Students, Crisis in the Church: A Study of Religion in America, Ethnicity in the United States, Common Ground: A Priest and a Rabbi Read Scripture Together, Ethnicity, Piece of My Mind, Forging a Common Future: Catholic, Judaic, and Protestant Relations for a New Millennium, Senor De LA Danza, Pecados cardinales, Los Pecados Cardinales/the Cardinal Sins, A Midwinter's Tales, Why Can't They Be Like Us?: Facts and Fallacies About Ethnic Differences and Group Conflicts in America, Passover Trilogy, Las Deudas del Pecado, God in Popular Culture, The Seven Deadly Sins: Stories on Human Weakness and Virtue, Andrew Greeley's Chicago, The Passover Trilogy, Hair of the Dog: Irish Drinking and Its American Stereotype, Love Affair: A Prayer Journal, Ocasion de Pecado, Andrew Greeley Reader, Complaints Against God, The Irish: Photographs by Andrew M. Greeley-- Along With Poems, Proverbs, and Blessings, Ethnicity, Religion in Europe at the End of the Second Millenium: A Sociological Profile, Es leuchtet ein Stern. Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte., Blackie at Sea, Communication in the Church, La Perdida de La Gracia, The Bishop And the Three Kings, Michigan Avenue Saint, The Magic Cup, social effects of Catholic education, Ascent into hell, Priests for tomorrow, fresh look at vocations, Women I've met, Year of Grace, education of Catholic Americans, Windows, The crucible of change, Angel fire, Sacraments of love, sense of love, new agenda, Lord of Dance, Myths of religion, future to hope in, book of Irish American blessings & prayers, stupid, unjust, and criminal war, Nora Maeve and Sebi, And young men shall see visions, Strangers in the house, denominational society, communal Catholic, Love and play, Sexual intimacy, Jesus, Everything you wanted to know about the Catholic Church but were too pious to ask, Unsecular man, Teenage world--its crises and anxieties, That most distressful nation, What a modern Catholic believes about God, I hope you're listening, God, touch of the spirit, church and the suburbs, Building coalitions:, From backwater to mainstream, Paciencia de Santo, Angry Catholic women, Youth asks, does God still speak?, Mary myth, Come blow your mind with me, Emerald Magic, Lord of the dance, The friendship game More
    Oak Park
    United States of America
  8. 8

    Anna Hanson Dorsey

  9. 9
    1941
    The Tale of the Body Thief, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, The Vampire Armand, Blackwood Farm, Blood Canticle, Exit to Eden, Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana, El santuario, The Mummy, Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat, Lasher, Servant of the Bones, The Witching Hour, Beauty's Punishment, X12 Anne Rice Backlist Pack, Un Grito Al Cielo - Bolsillo -, El Vampiro Armand, Pandora 16c.w/3aud+2lp Floor, Pandora, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, Interview with the Vampire, Memnoch Le Demon, Beauty's Release CD, Merrick, Merrick oder die Schuld des Vampirs, Novel 3, El Ladron De Cuerpos, LA Horas De LA Brujas, Violin, The Mayfair Witches, Memnoch the Devil, Cry to Heaven, The Feast of All Saints, Belinda, Taltos, Blood and Gold, Vittorio the Vampire, The Anne Rice Collection, Les infortunes de la Belle au bois dormant, Interview with Anne Rice, Vampire Chronicles, Die Mumie oder Ramses der Verdammte. Roman., LA Reine Des Damnes, Der Fürst der Finsternis. Roman., Memnoch, the Devil, Die Mayfair- Hexen., Conversations with Anne Rice, Interview Mit Einem Vampir, Armand le vampire, L'Heure Des Sorcieres / The Hour of Sorcieres, Engel der Verdammten., Tanz der Hexen., Memnoch der Teufel., The mummy, or Ramses the damned, Called Out of Darkness, Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession, El Rapto de La Bella Durmiente, Violín, El sirviente de los huesos, The Master of Rampling Gate, Feast of the Saints, Untitled Audio #3 Anne Rice, Armand El Vampiro, Cities of the Sacred Unicorn, Le violon, Liberacion de la Bella Durmiente, Entretien Avec UN Vampire/Interview With the Vampire, O Servo Dos Ossos, El Castigo de La Bella Durmiente, Armand der Vampir, Mayfair Witches, La Reina De Los Condenados, Volumen 3 APA The Queen of the Damned, Hacia El Eden - B -, La hora de las brujas, La Liberacion de La Bella Durmiente, Nachtmahr. Ein Roman aus der Chronik der Vampire, Gespräch mit dem Vampir, El Ultimo De Los Taltos, La voix des anges, Armand il Vampiro, Hexenstunde, El mesias, La Vampiro Pandora, Falsetto, Sortilège de Babylone, Confesiones De Un Vampiro, Der Konigin der Verdmmen / Queen of the Damned, La Momia o Ramsés el Maldito, Angel Time More
    New Orleans
    United States of America
  10. 10
    1917
    Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, Beds in the East, The Right to an Answer, Honey for the Bears, The Eve of St. Venus, The Wanting Seed, Nineteen Eighty-Five, Earthly Powers, You've Had Your Time, The Long Day Wanes, Hommage a qwert yuiop, Inside Mr. Enderby, A Vision of Battlements, Beard's Roman Women, One Hand Clapping, But do blondes prefer gentlemen?, puissances des ténèbres, Revolutionary sonnets and other poems, orange me canique, Dernières nouvelles du monde, Ninety-nine Novels, Abba Abba, Enderby Outside, The Kingdom of the Wicked, Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End of Enderby, The End of the World News: An Entertainment, 1985, Moses, Urgent copy, A Dead Man in Deptford, One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, A Clockwork Orange, M/F, Time for a Tiger, Man of Nazareth, Devil of a State, Language Made Plain, The Doctor is Sick, The Enemy in the Blanket, A Mouthful of Air, Byrne: A Novel, The Worm and the Ring, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life, New York, Any Old Iron, Rencontre au Sommet, The Pianoplayers, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, Shakespeare, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, Napoleon Symphony, Cyrano, The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy, A Long Trip to Teatime, This Man and Music, Blooms of Dublin, The Devil's Mode (Stories), The Novel To-day, The Age of the Grand Tour, A Christmas Recipe, Ernest Hemingway and His World, Little Wilson and Big God: Being the First Part of the Confession, On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang : Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination, A, Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence, Re Joyce, Pianistes, English literature, Rom im Regen, Future imperfect, Conversations with Anthony Burgess, Joysprick, Zavodnoĭ apelʹsin, Obscenity and the arts, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, Uhrwerk orange, Will and testament, Homage to QWERT YUIOP More
    Harpurhey
    United Kingdom, England
  11. 11
    1939
    Mémoires d'un gentleman excentrique, A Bed of Flowers, Will This Do?: An Autobiography, Four crowded years, Waugh part en campagne, The Way of the World, Closing the circle, Crash the Ash, The Foxglove Saga, Consider the Lilies, Path of Dalliace, Who are the Violets Now, The diaries of Auberon Waugh, Brideshead benighted, Country topics; some essays, La Belle Epoque, Son of Brideshead, Biafra: Britain's shame, In the lion's den, Another Voice, Waugh on wine More
    England
  12. 12
    1945
    Field Notes: Grace Note, Winterchronik, Wanderwege, Arktische Träume, About This Life - Journeys On The Threshold Of Memory, Arctic Dreams, Winter Count/Trying the Land/Searching for Ancestors/Grown Men/a Short Maifesto, Crossing open ground, Artic Dreams, Überleben in der Wildnis, Barry Lopez, Interview, Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping With His Daughter, Occupancy, Of Wolves and Men, Desert Notes/River Notes, The Future of Nature, Rêves arctiques, In der Wüste. Am Fluß, Horizons More
    Port Chester
    United States of America
  13. 13
    1947
    The price of my soul
    County Tyrone
    United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
  14. 14

    Brainard Cheney

    1900
    This is Adam
    United States of America
  15. 15

    Brian Coffey

    1905
    The face of fear
  16. 16
    1929
    Dancing at Lughnasa
    Omagh
    United Kingdom
  17. 17
    1899
    white rabbit, Pater Hilarys Urlaub, divided lady, Marx the First, account of capers, fair bride, Fryd og herlighed, Urban the Ninth, world, the flesh, and Father Smith, Satan and Cardinal Campbell, Welt, das Glück und Father Smith, All glorious within, mondo, Vespers in Vienna, Operation Iscariot, Luckypenny, Prayer for the living, month of the falling leaves, fille du roi, girl from Lübeck, Children of this earth, Vaxljus brinner för Paris, black oxen, Father Hilary's holiday, This sorry scheme, messe for Paris, Flutter in the dovecote, Peter the Second, To every man a penny, Bishop, accounting, bank audit, red Danube, stooping Venus, Thoughts of my cats, Only fade away, uncertain glory, Yellow tapers for Paris, Girl in May More
  18. 18

    Carol Zaleski

    life of the world to come, Otherworld journeys
  19. 19

    Caroline Gordon

    1895
    How to read a novel, The women on the porch, Penhally, None shall look back, The collected stories of Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, sportsman, garden of Adonis, Old Red, and other stories, house of fiction, literary friendship, forest of the South, glory of Hera, malefactors, good soldier, Green centuries, Southern mandarins, strange children More
    Todd County
    United States of America
  20. 20

    Christopher Dawson

    1889
    making of Europe, Christianity and the new age, Understanding Europe, Mongol mission, historic reality of Christian culture, dynamics of world history, judgment of the nations, Chu shi Menggu ji, gods of revolution, revolt of Asia, modern dilemma, Mediaeval religion, nascita dell'Europa, Beyond politics, Enquiries into religion and culture, Medieval essays, dividing of Christendom, judgement of the nations, makers of Christendom, Education and the crisis of Christian culture, America and the secularization of modern culture, formation of Christendom, Edward Gibbon, Religion and the modern state, age of the gods, wahre Einheit der europäischen Kultur, eine geschichtliche Untersuchung, Progress and religion More
  21. 21

    Christopher Derrick

    1921
    Honest love and human life: is the Pope right about contraception?, Words and the word, Light of revelation and non-Christians, C.S. Lewis and the Church of Rome, A Time to Fly, That strange divine sea, Too many people?, Rule of Peace, writing of novels, Reader's report on the writing of novels, Church authority and intellectual freedom, Trimming the ark, Joy Without a Cause, Escape from scepticism, Sex and sacredness, delicate creation: towards a theology of the environment, moral and social teaching of the Church More
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    Colm Toibin

  23. 23

    Coventry Patmore

    1823
    Poems, Odes, 1868, The Angel In The House, The Victories of Love and other Poems, Faithful For Ever, The Unknown Eros, poetry of pathos and delight, Religio poetae, etc, The Children's Garland, Selected poems of Coventry Patmore, Coventry Patmore's Essay on English metrical law, Florilegium amantis, Mystical poems of nuptial love, Seven unpublished poems, rod, the root and the flower, Amelia, Tamerton church-tower, etc More
    England
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    Craig Paterson

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    D.B. Wyndham-Lewis

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