About American Catholicism (nonfiction)
1. 
The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era 4.11 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
by:
Dorothy Day
4.02 avg rating — 5,537 ratings 3. 
Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
by:
Kate Hennessy
3.94 avg rating — 1,000 ratings 4. 
Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning
by:
Kerry Kennedy
3.59 avg rating — 301 ratings 
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Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era
by:
Justin Nordstrom
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 7. 
The Other Catholics: Remaking America's Largest Religion
by:
Julie Byrne
3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings 
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The Catholic Hipster Handbook: Rediscovering Cool Saints, Forgotten Prayers, and Other Weird but Sacred Stuff
by:
Tommy Tighe
3.83 avg rating — 306 ratings 
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The Catholic Labyrinth: Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American Church
by:
Peter McDonough
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 13. 
With Walker Percy at the Tupperware Party: in Company with Flannery O'Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Others 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Anti-Catholicism in America: The Last Acceptable Prejudice
by:
Mark Massa
3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings 16. 
American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and the History of Religious Intolerance
by:
Peter Gottschalk
3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings 16. 
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
by:
Walker Percy
4.04 avg rating — 577 ratings 
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Tri-Faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to Its Protestant Promise
by:
Kevin M. Schultz
3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Why Catholics Can't Sing: The Culture of Catholicism and the Triumph of Bad Taste
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Thomas Day
3.96 avg rating — 151 ratings 22. 
Prayers of the Faithful: The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present: 1st (first) Edition
by:
Jay P. Dolan
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings 25. 
Catholic and Feminist: The Surprising History of the American Catholic Feminist Movement
by:
Mary J. Henold
3.69 avg rating — 32 ratings 
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Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism
by:
David Gibson
3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings 28. 
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating — 752 ratings 28. 
Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States, 1789-1870
by:
Michael Pasquier
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 31. 
Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns 3.55 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
by:
Helen Prejean
4.14 avg rating — 8,954 ratings 31. 
The Poor Belong to Us: Catholic Charities and American Welfare
by:
Dorothy M. Brown
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870
by:
Michael Gannon
3.60 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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Voices of Our Times (More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church, Volume I) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism
by:
Jenny Franchot
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 40. 
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Frontiers of Faith: Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
by:
John R. Dichtl
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetary Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Neo-Catholics: Implementing Christian Nationalism in America
by:
Betty Clermont
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 46. 
Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church
by:
Timothy Matovina
3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings 46. 
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America
by:
James M. O'Toole
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 49. 
The Grace of Everyday Saints: How a Band of Believers Lost Their Church and Found Their Faith
by:
Julian Guthrie
3.68 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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Excommunicated from the Union: How the Civil War Created a Separate Catholic America (The North's Civil War)
by:
William B. Kurtz
4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Conquistador’s Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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American and Catholic: Stories of the People Who Built the Church
by:
C. Walker Gollar
4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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As It Was in the Beginning: The Coming Democratization of the Catholic Church
by:
Robert McClory
3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings 60. 
What I Am Living For: Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton
by:
Jon M. Sweeney
4.37 avg rating — 43 ratings 60. 
American and Catholic: A Popular History of Catholicism in the United States
by:
Clyde F. Crews
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 63. 
The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism
by:
Michael W. Cuneo
3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings 
63. 
American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow: Building Churches for the Future, 1925–1975 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Searching For Christ: The Spirituality of Dorothy Day (Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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What They Wished For: American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960–2004 liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Zen and the Birds of Appetite (New Directions Paperbook)
by:
Thomas Merton
4.12 avg rating — 1,323 ratings 69. 
Why I Left the Church, Why I Came Back, and Why I Just Might Leave Again: Memories of Growing Up African American and Catholic
by:
Jean K. Douglas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 72. 
Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in the Catholic Church
by:
Patricia Miller
3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings 
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The American Catholic Almanac: A Daily Reader of Patriots, Saints, Rogues, and Ordinary People Who Changed the United States
by:
Brian Burch
4.26 avg rating — 136 ratings 75. 
Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church 4.01 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Make Peace before the Sun Goes Down: The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox
by:
Roger Lipsey
4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings 75. 
Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America
by:
John Loughery
3.99 avg rating — 81 ratings 
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Radical Disciple: Father Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and the Fight for Social Justice
by:
Robert McClory
4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings 81. 
A Way to God: Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey
by:
Matthew Fox
3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings 83. 
Voice of Empathy: A History of Franciscan Media in the United States liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America
by:
Patrick W Carey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Biography of a Mexican Crucifix: Lived Religion and Local Faith from the Conquest to the Present 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Portraits of Grace: Images and Words from the Monastery of the Holy Spirit
by:
James Behrens
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 89. 
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Open to the Spirit: Tradition and Continuity at Holy Spirit Monastery it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics
by:
Todd Scribner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 95. 
Disarmed And Dangerous: The Radical Lives And Times Of Daniel And Philip Berrigan
by:
Murray Polner
4.09 avg rating — 56 ratings 96. 
Oglethorpe in Perspective : Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
by:
Phinizy Spalding
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 96. 
Gothic Pride: The Story of Building a Great Cathedral in Newark
by:
Brian Regan
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 98. 
Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends 4.12 avg rating — 146 ratings
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A Catholic Cold War: Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism
by:
Patrick McNamara
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 