Hello,
I usually haven't liked Christian fiction because it doesn't feel that deep or thought-provoking, but I know there is good stuff out there; I just don't know how to find it. I am good with mystery, science, contemporary, anything really, nothing off limits. Thanks in advance!
by Least_Ostrich_889
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The Chronicles of Narnia
I’m in the same boat, constantly looking for things that challenge the faith in an honest and constructive light (as a practicing Catholic):
Father Brown Mysteries by GK Chesterton
***Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Silence by Shusaku Endo
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
CS Lewis’s Space Trilogy
Pilgrims by MR Leonard
Feel free to ask me any questions about these!!!
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor (short stories)
Out of the Silent Planet (first of a trilogy, but a loosely connected one) or Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Does Jonathon Livingston Seagull count?
Check out Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder. His most famous work was «Sophie’s world». The author is deeply religious himself, but writes mostly about philosophy. The book where his beliefs, and how he connects it with philosophy, is most visible in a less known book by him, Through a Glass, Darkly. It’s kind of a children’s book, but is even better to read as a grown up.
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
Adam Bede, George Eliot
Anything by Denis Diderot!
Mitch albom books
How hasn’t anyone mentioned Dostoyevsky?
He was a devout orthodox Christian and his works are extremely philosophical and religious
Also East of Eden, apparently. I’m about to start reading it tomorrow. It’s a modern retelling of Cain and Abel, and apparently has many thought provoking themes
**Black Death (2010)**