In selecting books for this list, Image Journal decided to list an author only once to end up with 100 different writers. Moreover, only creative writing was considered: fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. The works selected manifest a genuine engagement with the Judeo-Christian heritage of faith, rather than merely using religion as background or subject matter. Authors featured on the list include notables like G.K. Chesterton, Ray Bradbury, Annie Dillard, T.S. Eliot, Madeleine L’Engle, C.S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, and many more. The list is orgnaized alphabetically by last name. “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.” ~ Image

1. W.H. Auden, Collected Poems
2. Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
3. Wendell Berry, Sabbaths
4. John Berryman, 77 Dream Songs
5. Doris Betts, Souls Raised from the Dead 
6. Leon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor
7. Heinrich Boll, The Stories of Heinrich Boll
8. Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
9. Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
10. George Mackay Brown, Selected Poems
11. Frederic Buechner, Godric
12. Scott Cairns, Recovered Body
13. Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
14. G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday
15. Paul Claudel, The Satin Slipper
16. Elizabeth Dewberry, Many Things Have Happened Since He Died
17. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
18. Andre Dubus, Selected Stories
19. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
20. Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater
21. Shusaku Endo, Silence
22. William Everson, Collected Poems (The Residual Years; The Veritable Years)
23. Horton Foote, The Trip to Bountiful
24. Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning
25. Denise Giardina, Saints and Sinners
26. Jose Maria Gironella, The Cypresses Believe in God
27. Julien Green, Diaries
28. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
29. Patricia Hampl, Virgin Time
30. Ron Hansen, Mariette in Ecstasy
31. Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
32. Oscar Hijuelos,  Mr. Ives’ Christmas
33. Geoffrey Hill, The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy
34. Edward Hirsch, Earthly Measures
35. Paul Horgan, Great River
36. Andrew Hudgins, The Neverending
37. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
38. Josephine Jacobsen, In the Crevice of Time: New and Selected Poems
39. Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes
40. Elizabeth Jennings, Collected Poems
41. David Jones, The Anathemata
42. Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
43. Thomas Keneally, Three Cheers for the Paraclete
44. William Kennedy, Ironweed
45. Wally Lamb, I Know This Much is True
46. Anne Lamott,  Traveling Mercies
47. Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
48. Denise Levertov, The Stream and the Sapphire
49. Philip Levine, The Mercy
50. C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
51. Torgny Lindgren, Light
52. Robert Lowell, Lord Weary’s Castle
53. Paul Mariani, Salvage Operations
54. Francois Mauriac, Viper’s Tangle
55. Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
56. Thomas Merton, Collected Poems
57. Vassar Miller, If I Had Wheels or Love: Collected Poems
58. Walter Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz
59. Czelaw Milosz,  Collected Poems
60. Brian Moore, Black Robe
61. Robert Morgan, The Truest Pleasure
62. Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time
63. Edwin Muir, Complete Poems
64. Les Murray, Collected Poems
65. Kathleen Norris, Dakota
66. Patrick O’Brian, The Aubrey/Maturin Novels
67. Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
68. Virginia Stem Owens, If You Do Love Old Men
69. Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved
70. Charles Peguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
71. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
72. David Plante, The Francoeur Trilogy
73. Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev
74. J.F. Powers, The Presence of Grace
75. Reynolds Price, Three Gospels
76. Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory
77. Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
78. Ignazio Silone,  Bread and Wine
79. Louis Simpson, New and Selected Poems
80. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Collected Stories
81. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
82. Muriel Spark, Memento Mori
83. Tom Stoppard, Hapgood
84. John Heath Stubbs, Collected Poems
85. Allen Tate, Collected Poems
86. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
87. Anne Tyler, Saint Maybe
88. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
89. John Updike, In the Beauty of the Lillies
90. Peter de Vries, The Blood of the Lamb
91. Dan Wakefield, Returning
92. Walter Wangerin, Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow
93. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
94. Elie Wiesel, Night
95. Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems
96. Charles Williams, All Hallows’ Eve
97. A.N. Wilson, Wise Virgin
98. Tim Winton, Cloudstreet
99. Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall
100. Tobias Wolff, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs