User:Chooserr/Catholic Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers

This is a list of Science Fiction and Fantasy authors who are Catholic.

Also see the Wikipedia page [1]List of Catholic Authors

Here are some books/authors which are quite safe and highly recommended (excerpted from Michael D. O'Brien's [2]A Landscape with Dragons), though not necessarily in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre:

Bess Streeter Aldrich-- A Lantern in Her Hand
Jane Austin-- Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility
William Barrett-- The Lilies of the Field
Hilaire Belloc-- The Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts (for Worse Children): Verses;A Moral Alphabet; Cautionary Tales for Children:Designed for the Admonition of Children between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen years: Verses; New Cautionary Tales: Verses.
Msgr. Hugh Benson--The Lord of the World
Thyra Ferre Bjorn-- Mama's Way, Pappa's Wife, Pappa's Daughter
R. D. Blackmore-- Lorna Doone
Charlotte Bronte—Jane Eyre
D. K. Broster—Ships in the Bay!; The Jacobite trilogy: The Flight of the Heron; The Dark Mile; The Gleam of the North.
John Buchan—John McNab; Prester John; Witch Wood. The Dickson McCunn series: Huntingtower; Castle Gay. The Richard Hannay series: The Thirty-Nine Steps; Greenmantle; Mr. Standfast; The Power House; The Three Hostages; The Island of Sheep.
Willa Cather—Death Comes for the Archbishop; My Antonia; Shadows on the Rock
G K Chesterton—The Ballad of the White Horse; The Ball and the Cross; The Father Brown Omnibus; The Flying Inn; The Man Who Was Thursday; The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Erskine Childers—The Riddle of the Sands
Isabel C. Clark—A Case of Conscience; Children of the Shadow, and others…
Elizabeth Coatsworth—Here I Stay: A Maine Novel
James Fenimore Cooper—The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans.
Richard Dana—Two Years before the Mast
Louis De Wohl—Citadel of God: A Novel about Saint Benedict; Lay Siege to Heaven: A Novel about Saint Catherine of Siena; The Quiet Light: A Novel about Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Restless Flame: A Novel about Saint Francis Xavier; The Spear (about Longinus, the Roman soldier who pierced the side of Christ.)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—The Lost World; The White Company; The Sherlock Holmes stories and novels.
Loula Grace Erdman—The Edge of Time; The Years of the Locust; Lonely Passage.
Kathryn Forbes—Mama’s Bank Account.
Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey—Belles on Their Toes; Cheaper by the Dozen
Rumer Godden—The Dark Horse; In This House of Brede
Oliver Goldsmith—The Vicar of Wakesfield.
Elizabeth Goudge—The Bird in the Tree; A City of the Bells; Dean’s Watch; Green Dolphin Street; Heart of the Family; Pilgrim’s Inn; The Rosemary Tree; The Scent of Water.
Robin Lee Graham with Derek Gill—Dove
Henry Rider Haggard—Allan Quatermain; King Solomon’s Mines; She.
Louis Hermon—Maria Chapdelain
James Herriot—All Creatures Great and Small; All Things Wise and Wonderful; All Things Bright and Beautiful; The Lord God Made Them All; Every Living Thing.
James Hilton—Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Victor Hugo—les Miserables
Helen Keller—The Story of My Life
Rudyard Kipling—Captain Courageous
Harper Lee—To Kill a Mockingbird
C. S. Lewis—Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra: That Hideous Strength.
Sally Magnusson—The Flying Scotsman.
Catherine Marshall—Christy
Jean Merrill—The Pushcart War
Ralph Moody—The Little Britches; Man of the Family; The Fields of Home; The Home Ranch; Mary Emma and Company; Shaking the Nickel Bush; The Dry Divide; Horse of a Different Color.
Charles Nordhoff—Mutiny on the Bounty
Mary O’Hara—My Friend Flicka; Thunderhead; The Green Grass of Wyoming
Baroness Orczy—The Scarlet Pimpernel
Frances Gray Patton—Good Morning, Miss Dove
Charles Portis—True Grit
Chaim Potok—The Chosen; The Promise
Rafael Sabitini—Captain Blood; Scaramouche; The Sea Hawk.
Samuel Shellabarger—Prince of Foxes
Henryk Sienkiewicz—Quo Vadis?
J. R. R. Tolkien—The Lord of the Rings; The Simarillion
Maria Augusta Trapp—Around the Year with the Trapp Family; The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.*Meriol Trevor—Shadows and Images.
Mark Twain—Joan of Arc
Jules Verne—A Long Vacation (Original title: A Two Years’ Vacation)
Leonard Wibberley—Epics of Everest; The Hands of Cormac Joyce; The Land That Isn’t There: An Irish Adventure; The Last Stand of Father Felix; The Shannon Sailors: A Voyage to the Heart of Ireland. The Mouse Series: Beware the Mouse! The Mouse that Roared; The Mouse on the Moon; The Mouse on Wall Street: The Mouse that Saved the West; As Leonard Holton: The Father Bredder mysteries.
Owen Wister—the Virginian
P. G. Wodehouse—French Leave; Heavy Weather; Laughing Gas; Man Upstairs and Other Stories; Something Fresh; Summer Lightning
Percival Wren—Beau Geste

Some aditions to the above list:

Kimberly Willis Holt--My Louisiana Sky; Waiting for Gregory; When Zachary Beaver Came to Town; Mister and Me; Dancing in Cadillac Light; Keeping Prairie Thunder
Christopher Paolini-- The Inheritance Tilogy: Eragon; Eldest; Empire?
Elena Maria Vidal-- Trianon; Madame Royale

Novels BY CATHOLIC AUTHORS on the [3]Top 100 Most Influential Novels and Books:

Don Quixote (1605, 1630) Miguel de Cervantes Catholic
War and Peace (1869) Leo Tolstoy, Russian Orthodox
Ulysses (1922) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
In Search of Lost Time (1913-27) Marcel Proust, Jewish, Catholic
The Brothers Karamazov (1880) Feodor Dostoevsky, Russian Orthodox
Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert, Catholic
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Catholic
The Great Gatsby (1925) F. Scott Fitzgerald, Catholic
Finnegans Wake (1939) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
The Man Without Qualities (1930-43) Robert Musil, Catholic
The Red and the Black (1830) Stendhal, Catholic
Le Pere Goriot (1835) Honore de Balzac, Catholic
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) James Joyce, Catholic (lapsed)
The Tin Drum (1959) Gunter Grass, Catholic
The Awakening (1899) Kate Chopin, Catholic
Germinal (1855) Emile Zola, Catholic
U.S.A. Trilogy (1930-38) John Dos Passos, Catholic
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) Alfred Doblin, Catholic
The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) Carlos Fuentes, Catholic
A Farewell to Arms (1929) Ernest Hemingway, Catholic
Brideshead Revisited (1945) Evelyn Waugh, Catholic
The Betrothed (1827, 1840) Alessandro Manzoni, Catholic
The Leopard (1958) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Catholic
The Good Soldier Svejk (1921-23) Jaroslav Hasek, Catholic
The Hound of Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle, Catholic; Spiritualist
Gone with the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell, Catholic