The Dean's List 2009-2010

fr. neenan's suggested readings

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.



James Agee
A Death in the Family

Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim

George Bernanos
Diary of a Country Priest

Robert Bolt
A Man For All Seasons

Albert Camus
The Fall

Clare Dunsford
Spelling Love with an X

Joseph Ellis
His Excellency: George Washington

Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory

Patricia Hampl
The Florist's Daughter

Dennis Lehane
The Given Day

David McCullough
Truman

Alice McDermott
After This

Antonia Monda
Do You Believe?

J. Donald Monan
Echoes of a University Presidency

Henri Nouwen
The Return of the Prodigal Son

John O’Malley SJ
The First Jesuits

James O'Toole
The Faithful

Marilynne Robinson
Home

Michael Shaara
The Killer Angels

Wallace Stegner
Collected Stories

Stuart Taylor, K.C. Johnson
Until Proven Innocent

Sigrid Undset
Kristin Lavransdatter

Robert Penn Warren
All the King’s Men

Garry Wills
Saint Augustine

Simon Winchester
River at the Center of the World

Jay Winik
April 1865: The Month that Saved America