Lists of Bests: The Image Journal's "Top 100 Books of the Twentieth Century" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/105 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. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:35:18 GMT en-us 0 50 100 50 0 Collected Poems: Auden http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66849 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66849"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679731970.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464899_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by W. H. Auden</div> The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23139 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23139"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0786709618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Georges Bernanos</div> Sabbaths http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/63050 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wendell Berry</div> 77 Dream Songs http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66850 <div id="position">4</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Berryman</div> Souls Raised From The Dead http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66851 <div id="position">5</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Doris Betts</div> The Woman Who Was Poor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66852 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leon Bloy</div> Heinrich Boll: Eighteen Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66853 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Heinrich Boll</div> A Man for All Seasons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66854 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66854"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679728228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464891_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Bolt</div> Something Wicked This Way Comes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9603 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9603"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0380729407.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> Selected poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66855 <div id="position">10</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Mackay Brown</div> Godric: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1015"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060611626.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Frederick Buechner</div> Recovered Body http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66856 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66856"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0971748349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Scott Cairns</div> Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18715 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18715"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679728899.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1076004030_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willa Cather</div> The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2760 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2760"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140183884.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676350_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by G. K. Chesterton</div> The Satin Slipper: The Worst Is Not the Surest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66857 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Claudel</div> Many Things Have Happened Since He Died http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66858 <div id="position">16</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughn</div> Pilgrim at Tinker Creek http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1421"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060953020.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Dillard</div> Selected Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19053 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19053"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679767304.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andre Dubus</div> Four Quartets http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43265 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43265"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0156332256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056422686_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T. S. Eliot</div> The Sin Eater http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21876 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Thomas Ellis</div> Silence http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23891 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23891"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0800871863.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shusaku Endo</div> Collected Poems (The Residual Years; The Veritable Years) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66859 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Trip to Bountiful. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66860 <div id="position">23</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Horton Foote</div> The Lady's Not For Burning. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66861 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66861"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0822214318.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056497225_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Christopher Fry</div> Saints and Villains (Ballantine Reader's Circle) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66862 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66862"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449004279.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denise Giardina</div> Cypresses Believe in God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66863 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Maria Gironella</div> La lumière du monde: 1978-1981 (Journal) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66864 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julien Green</div> The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> Virgin Time : In Search of the Contemplative Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49713 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/49713"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345384245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patricia Hampl</div> Mariette in Ecstasy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1555 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1555"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060981180.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Hansen</div> A Soldier of the Great War http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3854 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3854"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0151836000.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Helprin</div> Mr. Ives' Christmas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66865 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66865"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060927542.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Oscar Hijuelos</div> The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66866 <div id="position">33</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Geoffrey Hill</div> Earthly Measures : Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66867 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66867"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679765662.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward Hirsch</div> Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Vol. 1, Indians and Spain. Vol. 2, Mexico and the United States. 2 vols. in one http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66868 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66868"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0819562513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056496813_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul. Horgan</div> The Never-Ending: New Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66869 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Andrew Hudgins</div> A Prayer for Owen Meany http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7640 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345361792.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66870 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66870"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801863392.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josephine Jacobsen</div> Questions for Ecclesiastes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66871 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66871"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1885266413.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Jarman</div> Collected Poems: 1953-1985 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66872 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66872"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0856357219.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056500793_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elizabeth Jennings</div> Anathemata: Fragments of an Attempted Writing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66873 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66873"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0571101275.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Jones</div> The LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19484 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19484"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/068485256X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikos Kazantzakis</div> Three Cheers for the Paraclete http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66874 <div id="position">43</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Keneally</div> Ironweed http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58151 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58151"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140070206.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132599555_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William J. Kennedy</div> I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1572 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1572"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060987561.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1124906836_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wally Lamb</div> Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10370 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10370"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385496095.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anne Lamott</div> A Wrinkle in Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12598 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/12598"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440498058.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1128723481_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Madeleine L'Engle</div> The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes (New Directions Paperbook, 844) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66875 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66875"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0811213544.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denise Levertov</div> The Mercy: Poems http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66876 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/66876"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701354.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Levine</div> Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4170 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4170"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156904365.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by C.S. Lewis</div>