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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  1. 1.
    Collected Poems: Auden
    by W. H. Auden

  2. 2.
    The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel
    by Georges Bernanos

  3. 3.
    Sabbaths
    by Wendell Berry

  4. 4.
    ?
    77 Dream Songs
    by John Berryman

  5. 5.
    ?
    Souls Raised From The Dead
    by Doris Betts

  6. 6.
    ?
    The Woman Who Was Poor
    by Leon Bloy

  7. 7.
    Heinrich Boll: Eighteen Stories
    by Heinrich Boll

  8. 8.
    A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts
    by Robert Bolt

  9. 9.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

  10. 10.
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    Selected Poems
    by George Mackay Brown

  11. 11.
    Godric: A Novel
    by Frederick Buechner

  12. 12.
    Recovered Body
    by Scott Cairns

  13. 13.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  14. 15.
    ?
    The Satin Slipper: The Worst Is Not the Surest
    by Paul Claudel

  15. 16.
    ?
    Many Things Have Happened Since He Died
    by Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn

  16. 17.
    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    by Annie Dillard

  17. 18.
    Selected Stories
    by Andre Dubus

  18. 19.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

  19. 20.
    ?
    The Sin Eater
    by Alice Thomas Ellis

  20. 21.
    Silence
    by Shusaku Endo

  21. 23.
    The Trip to Bountiful
    by Horton Foote

  22. 24.
    The Lady's Not For Burning.
    by Christopher Fry

  23. 25.
    Saints and Villains (Fawcett Book)
    by Denise Giardina

  24. 26.
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    Cypresses Believe in God
    by Jose Maria Gironella

  25. 27.
    ?
    La lumière du monde: 1978-1981 (Journal)
    by Julien Green

  26. 28.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  27. 29.
    Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
    by Patricia Hampl

  28. 30.
    Mariette in Ecstasy
    by Ron Hansen

  29. 31.
    A Soldier of the Great War
    by Mark Helprin

  30. 32.
    Mr. Ives' Christmas
    by Oscar Hijuelos

  31. 33.
    The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy
    by Geoffrey Hill

  32. 34.
    Earthly Measures: Poems
    by Edward Hirsch

  33. 36.
    ?
    NEVER-ENDING PA
    by Andrew Hudgins

  34. 37.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

  35. 39.
    Questions for Ecclesiastes
    by Mark Jarman

  36. 40.
    Collected Poems: 1953-1985
    by Elizabeth Jennings

  37. 41.
    Anathemata: Fragments of an Attempted Writing
    by David Jones

  38. 42.
    The Last Temptation of Christ
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

  39. 43.
    Three Cheers for the Paraclete
    by Thomas Keneally

  40. 44.
    Ironweed: A Novel
    by William J. Kennedy

  41. 45.
    I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

  42. 46.
    Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    by Anne Lamott

  43. 47.
    A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

  44. 49.
    The Mercy: Poems
    by Philip Levine

  45. 50.
    Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
    by C.S. Lewis

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