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List your favorite fiction books that do not contain any material that would not harm one's Catholic faith.

I'll start:
Evangeline
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Phantom of the Opera
The Aeneid

Knight of the Holy Rosary
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'The Restless Flame' - Louis de Wohl

RezaMikhaeil
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The Miraculous St. Mina the Greatest Egyptian Martyr to ever live - Coptic Church
Growing up X - Illyasa Shabaaz
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands - Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Why I'm a Muslim - Asma Hasan
Boundaries - Townsend & Cloud
Princess - Jean Sasson
The Incarnation of our Lord - St. Cyril the Great

Too many to list but these are good

Reza

TheOliverOrder88
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Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky
The Confessions by Saint Augustine
The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Dante's Divine Comedy
The Violent Bear it Away by O'Connor


I'm kinda all over the place.

Edited by TheOliverOrder88
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he said fiction...

I dont read much fiction, but probably Screwtape letters.

I stick to the nonfiction dusty theology books

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My all-time favorites:

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky (warning, has some stuff that is not flattering to Catholics)
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery

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Mansfield Park
The Iliad
The Man Who Was Thursday

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I like the Fr. Brown stories I've read

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[u]Books[/u]

The Iliad
Oedipus Rex
The Inferno
The Moonstone
Vanity Fair
Lilith
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Invisible Man
The Phantom of the Opera
A Clockwork Orange
A Walk to Remember
LOTR Trilogy
The Princess Bride
The Screwtape Letters
Jane Eyre
The Complex Infastructure Known as the Female Mind
Something Wicked This Way Comes
The Shining

[u]Anything by these authors[/u]
Frank Peretti
Louisa May Alcott
Edgar Allen Poe
L.M. Montgomery
Shakespeare



There are more I just can't think of them right now.

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Don't Let the Pigeon drive the bus!
Don't let the Pigeon stay up late!
The Pigeon finds a hot dog!
Yertle the Turtle
The Lorax
Dory Story
NO! David!
David Goes to school
Gloria
A Pizza the size of the sun
It's raining pigs and noodles
The Rough-Faced Girl
The Princess and the Kiss
A Little Princess
The Squire and the Scroll
Wayside School
Narnia
LOTR
Jane Eyre
Huckleberry Finn
Three Musketeers
The Screwtape letters
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys


I LOVE picture books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the list goes on and on and on.......... ;)

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oh wow. I love to read. Here's some of my current favorites.

A Light in August- Faulkner
The Old Man and the Sea- Hemingway
Jane Eyre
Franny & Zooey- JD Salinger
The Bell Jar
The Pillowman- Martin McDonough (it's a play)
Betrayal
Age of Innocence
The Professor's House
A Personal History- Katherine Graham
1984

Favorite Authors:
William Carlos Williams (poetry)
Langston Hughes (poetry)
JD Salinger
Hemingway

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[size=1]I dont read alot...

Pride and Prejudice
Rocket Boys
Shakespearian Plays
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Edited by CrossCuT
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I see that several people like Faulkner... I always had trouble reading him. The Sound and the Fury was a hard, hard slog, although rewarding.

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[quote name='Maggie' post='1218258' date='Mar 24 2007, 11:03 AM']I see that several people like Faulkner... I always had trouble reading him. The Sound and the Fury was a hard, hard slog, although rewarding.[/quote]

I'm in a class on Hemingway/Faulkner this semester. We haven't read [i][/i]The Sound and the Fury[i][/i] yet... I do agree that he is hard to get through... but I find it rewarding and amazing at the end.

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Not a big Faulkner fan - like James Joyce even less.

Although its been a long time -The Space Trilogy by CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia

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[quote name='jmjtina' post='1217892' date='Mar 23 2007, 07:41 PM']Don't Let the Pigeon drive the bus!
The Pigeon finds a hot dog!
NO! David!
Wayside School[/quote]

OMG THOSE ARE LIKE MYFAVORITE BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THAT SILLY PIGEON!!!


uh Maximum Ride by James Patterson is excellent...
Harry Potter is always good.. (JK Rowling)
Criss Cross by Lynn Rae Perkins made me almost cry it was sooo good (even though it's not really a sad book)

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The Great Divorce - C. S. Lewis

Reading The Chronicles of Narnia right now.

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Religious Fiction:

A Cry of Stone - Michael O'Brien

All of Michael O'Brien's books

The Glorious Folly - Louis De Wohl

Joan of Arc - Mark Twain (fiction based on exact history, as it is recorded)

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis

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[quote name='Maggie' post='1215659' date='Mar 18 2007, 10:34 PM']The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupery[/quote]

Absolutely. That is a n awesome book!

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I give lots of Tommie DePaola's books to my little nieces and nephews--Strega Nona is a favorite!

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