 | The Mystery of Things (Ashland Grail Cycle ; Bk. 1) by Debra Murphy
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $6.34 My own novel, a thriller set in a Catholic graduate studies institute in Milwaukee. Semi-finalist in the 2005 Independent Publishers Book Awards.
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 | The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Buy new: $20.40 / Used from: $0.01 A "catholic" literary thriller that has become a classic, and one of my favorite reads.
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 | Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.01 A mystery of the soul's relationship to God...one of the finest Catholic novels of the last half-century.
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 | Atticus: Novel, A by Ron Hansen
Buy new: $11.11 / Used from: $0.01 Part murder mystery, this is a masterful contemporary re-working of a biblcial parable.
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 | Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America) by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.98 Arguably the finest Catholic writer America ever produced, O'Connor's short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" would by itself make this volume worth the price.
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 | The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
Buy new: $15.64 / Used from: $9.35 Not fiction, mind you, but Flannery O'Connor's letters comprise an education in the art and craft of writing fiction.
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 | A Canticle for Leibowitz (Bantam Spectra Book) by Walter M. Miller Jr.
Buy used from: $0.84 A classic sci-fi novel of how about how a group of monks save civilization after a nuclear catastrophe.
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 | Silence by Shusaku Endo
Buy new: $8.60 / Used from: $3.11 Endo's masterpiece about faith, the clash of cultures (Japanese and Christian), and the "silence" of God.
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 | Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $1.79 An achingly beautiful novel friendship and unexpected faith by one of the great English stylists.
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: $11.65 / Used from: $15.40 Originally published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton's nightmare-fantasy of Police vs. Dynamiters, Law vs. Anarchy, and Religion vs. Nihilism has influenced writers as diverse as Franz Kafka and C.S. Lewis.
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