The Dean's List 1982-Present

fr. neenan's suggested readings

 Dates denote years on the list.

  1. James Agee, A Death in the Family, 1984-
  2. Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, 1996
  3. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, 1982-
  4. Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace, 1993-1999
  5. Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal, 2000
  6. Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams, 2007-
  7. Robert N. Bellah and Colleagues, Habits of the Heart, 1985-1991
  8. Peter Berger, Rumor of Angels, 1982-1983
  9. George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest, 1982-
  10. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, 1997
  11. Ben Birnbaum, “How to Pray: Reverence, Stories, And the Rebbe’s Dream,” in Kathleen Norris (ed.), The Best American Essays 2001, 2002
  12. Ben Birnbaum, Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in our Time, 2008
  13. Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind, 1987
  14. Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons, 1982-
  15. Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation, 1999
  16. Frederick Buechner, Godric, 1984
  17. Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, 1991-93
  18. Albert Camus, The Fall, 1982-
  19. Ethan Canin, Emperor of the Air, 1994-1995
  20. Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star, 1985
  21. George Crile, Charlie Wilson’s War, 2005
  22. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood, 1990-1991
  23. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1986-1989
  24. Annie Dillard, The Living, 1992
  25. Charles F. Donovan, S.J., History of Boston College, 1990-1993
  26. Brian Doyle, The Wet Engine, 2007-
  27. Clare Dunsford, Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the Gene that Binds Them, 2008 
  28. Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope, 1984-1985
  29. Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, 2004-2006
  30. Joseph Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington, 2005-
  31. Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1982-1997
  32. Shusaku Endo, Deep River, 1995-1997
  33. Shusaku Endo, Silence, 1982-1994
  34. Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris, 2001
  35. David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride, 1995
  36. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1982-
  37. Thomas Flanagan, The End of the Hunt, 1994
  38. Thomas Flanagan, Tenants of Time, 1988
  39. Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French, 1982-1986
  40. Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 1982-1985
  41. William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1983-1990
  42. Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon, 2002
  43. Mary Gordon, Final Payments, 1982-1989
  44. Thomas Grady and Paula Huston (eds.) Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments, 2000-2001
  45. Elizabeth Graver, Unravelling, 1998
  46. Elizabeth Graver, The Honey Thief, 2000
  47. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, 2000-2005
  48. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, 1982-1999, 2006-
  49. Thomas Groome, What Makes Us Catholic, 2002
  50. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1996
  51. Patricia Hampl, The Florist's Daughter, 2008-
  52. Ron Hansen, Atticus, 1997-1998
  53. Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1982-1986
  54. Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire, 2005
  55. Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, 2000-2004
  56. Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, 2003
  57. Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life, 1990-2007
  58. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2006
  59. James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1982-2000
  60. Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1998-2003
  61. John Keegan, Face of Battle, 1982-1995
  62. Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, 1986
  63. Thomas Keneally, Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, 1982-1983
  64. Thomas Keneally, The Confederates, 1984
  65. William Kennedy, Ironweed, 1985-1987
  66. Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, 2004
  67. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, 1991-1995
  68. Milan Kundera, Immortality, 1995-1996
  69. Milan Kundera, The Joke, 1991
  70. Florence Ladd, Sarah’s Psalm, 1999
  71. Guiseppe Lampedusa, The Leopard, 1982-1997
  72. H. C. Robbins Landon, 1791 Mozart's Last Year, 1991
  73. Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel, 1987
  74. William Leonard, S.J. The Letter Carrier, 1993
  75. William J. Leonard, S.J., Where Thousands Fell, 1995
  76. Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics, 2006
  77. Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam, 2003
  78. Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams, 1993
  79. Anthony J. Lucas, Common Ground, 1986
  80. Paul Mariani, Thirty Days, 2002
  81. Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2003
  82. Suzanne Matson, The Hunger Moon, 1998
  83. Suzanne Matson, The Tree-Sitter, 2006
  84. Suzanne Matson, A Trick of Nature, 2001
  85. Francois Mauriac, Viper's Tangle, 1982
  86. Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, 1994
  87. Eugene McCarthy, Up 'Til Now, 1987
  88. Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1997-1998
  89. David McCullough, John Adams, 2002
  90. David McCullough, Truman, 1993-
  91. Alice McDermott, After This, 2007-
  92. Alice McDermott, At Weddings and Wakes, 1993-1994
  93. Alice McDermott, Charming Billy, 1999-2000
  94. Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart, 2003-
  95. James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom, 1989
  96. Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art, 2006
  97. Antonio Monda, Do You Believe? Conversations on God and Religion, 2008
  98. Charles Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church, 1999-
  99. Gloria Naylor, Women of Brewster Place, 1994-1999
  100. Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1998-
  101. Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock, 1988
  102. Thomas O'Connor, The Boston Irish, 1996-1997
  103. Thomas O'Connor, Civil War Boston, 1998
  104. Thomas O’Connor, The Hub: Boston Past and President, 2001
  105. John O'Malley, S.J. The First Jesuits, 1994-
  106. Thomas P. O'Neill, Man of the House, 1988-91
  107. Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries, 1987-2004
  108. Ann Petry, The Street, 1996-2000
  109. J. F. Powers, Morte d'Urban, 1982-1984
  110. J. F. Powers, Wheat that Springeth Green, 1989-1990
  111. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2005-
  112. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping, 1997-1999
  113. O. E. Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth, 1982-1983
  114. Colin A. Ronan, The Natural History of the Universe, 1992
  115. Tim Russert, Big Russ and Me, 2005
  116. Tim Russert, Wisdom of Our Fathers, 2007
  117. Simon Schama, Citizens, 1989
  118. Nancy Lusignan Schulz, Fire and Roses, 2001
  119. Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels, 1999-
  120. Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers, 2003
  121. Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine, 1983-1992
  122. Dava Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter, 2001-2004
  123. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle, 1982-1988
  124. Wallace Stegner, Collected Short Stories, 1990-
  125. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety, 1989
  126. Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, 1992
  127. Peter Steinfels, A People Adrift, 2004-2005
  128. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1990
  129. R. H. Tawney, Religion and Rise of Capitalism, 1982-1983
  130. Stuart Taylor, K.C. Johnson, Until Proven Innocent Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, 2008 
  131. Studs Terkel, Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About The American Obsession, 1992
  132. Christopher Tilghman, In a Father's Place, 1992-1993
  133. Sigrid Undset, Gunnar's Daughter, 1989
  134. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1982-1988, 1990-
  135. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men, 1982-
  136. David Warsh, Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations, 2007
  137. Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, 1996
  138. Garry Wills, Saint Augustine, 2000-
  139. Simon Winchester, River at the Center of the World, 1997
  140. Jay Winik, April 1865, The Month that Saved America, 2004-
  141. Alan Wolfe, The Transformation of American Religion, 2004
  142. Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities, 1988
  143. Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger, 1982-1990
  144. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1982-1996

 

Recommendations for an evening of good reading from Fr. William Neenan.