Top Ten (Non-Evangelical) Novels About Angels

(A short list, this one, by request and in order of preference.)

  1. The Wandering Jew by Stefan Heym

  2. God’s Wife by Amanda Michalopoulou

  3. Big Machine by Victor LaValle

  4. Hell Is the Absence of God (a novelette) by Ted Chiang

  5. Angel Down by Daniel Kraus

  6. The Angels of L19 by Jonathan Walker

  7. Things Invisible to See by Nancy Willard

  8. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

  9. The Great Divorce by C. S Lewis

  10. Eden by Jim Crace

— June 9, 2026


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