The following 27 books are "recommendations for an evening of good reading," compiled yearly by William Neenan, SJ, vice president and special assistant to the president. In a time when technology sometimes overwhelms us, the Libraries and Fr. William Neenan urge you to take time to sit down with a good book, maybe one of these suggestions, and rediscover the simple act of reading for pleasure.
View the cumulative list since 1982.
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James Agee Kingsley Amis George Bernanos Robert Bolt Albert Camus Clare Dunsford Joseph Ellis Scott Fitzgerald Graham Greene Patricia Hampl Dennis Lehane David McCullough Alice McDermott Antonia Monda J. Donald Monan |
Henri Nouwen John O’Malley SJ James O'Toole Marilynne Robinson Michael Shaara Wallace Stegner Stuart Taylor, K.C. Johnson Sigrid Undset Robert Penn Warren Garry Wills Simon Winchester Jay Winik |