The Image Journal's "Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century"

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A central part of <i>Image’s</i> mission is to showcase the wealth of contemporary writing that grapples in a serious way with religious faith. But, of course, we are also always mindful of Image’s "patron saints" (T.S. Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Georges Bernanos, Shusaku Endo, to name but a few) authors and thinkers who have inspired many of the writers who appear in our pages, and who inspire us as we put those pages together.<br /><br />
We hope that the following list offers but a glimpse of that wealth of talent this past century has seen—talent exhibited both by those who laid the groundwork for the great works now being written and by those whose compelling narratives and lyrics are helping to bring us into the twenty-first century with a renewed hope in the marriage of religion and art.

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    Collected Poems: Auden
    by W. H. Auden

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    The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
    by Georges Bernanos

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    Sabbaths
    by Wendell Berry

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    77 Dream Songs
    by John Berryman

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    Souls Raised From The Dead
    by Doris Betts

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    The Woman Who Was Poor
    by Leon Bloy

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    Heinrich Boll: Eighteen Stories
    by Heinrich Boll

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    A Man for All Seasons
    by Robert Bolt

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    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

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    Selected poems
    by George Mackay Brown

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    Godric: A Novel
    by Frederick Buechner

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    Recovered Body
    by Scott Cairns

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    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  14. 14.
    The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics)
    by G. K. Chesterton

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    The Satin Slipper: The Worst Is Not the Surest
    by Paul Claudel

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    Many Things Have Happened Since He Died
    by Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn

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    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

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    Selected Stories
    by Andre Dubus

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  19. 19.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

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    The Sin Eater
    by Alice Thomas Ellis

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    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

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    The Trip to Bountiful.
    by Horton Foote

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  23. 24.
    The Lady's Not For Burning.
    by Christopher Fry

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  24. 25.
    Saints and Villains (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Denise Giardina

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    Cypresses Believe in God
    by Jose Maria Gironella

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    La lumière du monde: 1978-1981 (Journal)
    by Julien Green

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    Virgin Time : In Search of the Contemplative Life
    by Patricia Hampl

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    Mariette in Ecstasy
    by Ron Hansen

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    A Soldier of the Great War
    by Mark Helprin

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    Mr. Ives' Christmas
    by Oscar Hijuelos

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    The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy
    by Geoffrey Hill

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  33. 34.
    Earthly Measures : Poems
    by Edward Hirsch

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    The Never-Ending: New Poems
    by Andrew Hudgins

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    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

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  36. 39.
    Questions for Ecclesiastes
    by Mark Jarman

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  37. 40.
    Collected Poems: 1953-1985
    by Elizabeth Jennings

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    Anathemata: Fragments of an Attempted Writing
    by David Jones

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    The LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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    Three Cheers for the Paraclete
    by Thomas Keneally

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    Ironweed
    by William J. Kennedy

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  42. 45.
    I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

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  43. 46.
    Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    by Anne Lamott

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  44. 47.
    A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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    The Mercy: Poems
    by Philip Levine

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  46. 50.
    Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
    by C.S. Lewis

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