Readers' Corner

SJU President Michael Hemesath

Dr. Michael Hemesath

Recommended Reading Titles

All the Pretty Horses
by McCarthy

The Hill Bachelors
by Trevor

Angle of Repose
by Stegner

The Heart of the Matter
by Greene

Haunted Land
by Rosenberg

Plainsong
by Haruf

Middlemarch
by Eliot

Brothers Karamazov
by Dostoevsky

Endurance
by Lansing

 

CSB President MaryAnn Baenninger, Ph.D.


Recommended Reading Titles

 

The Daughter of Time
by Josephone Tey

The Lost Painting:  The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr

You're Not You
by Michelle Wildgen

Why So Slow?  The Advancement of Women
by Virginia Valian

Ellis Island and Other Stories
by Mark Helprin

The Beekeeper's Apprentice &  
Folly
by Laurie R. King
       
Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
     
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers

Markings
by Dag Hammarskjold

Peace Like A River
by Leif Enger

Former SJU President Fr. Robert Koopmann, OSB

Recommended Reading Titles

Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann

And One Fine Morning - Memories of My Father
by Nick Hayes

Driftless
by David Rhodes

Flannery - A Life of Flannery O'Connor
by Brad Gooch

Netherland
by Joseph O'Neill

Home
by Marilynne Robinson

Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin

The Whole World Over
by Julia Glass

Strengths Based Leadership
by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie

 

 

Br. Dietrich Reinhart, OSB - SJU President Emeritus

 

 

 

 

 


Recommended Reading Titles

The Mysterious Benedict Society
by Trenton Lee Stewart and Carson Ellis

A Whole New Life:  an Illness and a Healing
by Reynolds Price

Returning to Earth:  a Novel
by Jim Harrison

The Good Priest's Son
by Reynolds Price

Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry

The Sparrow &
Children of God
by Mary Doria Russell

A Trip to the Stars
by Nicholas Christopher

Peace Like a River
Leif Enger

Prison Poems (Voices in the Night)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Selected Poems
by Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Stephan Mitchel

The Essential Rumi
translated by Coleman Barks

Holocaust Poetry
by Hilda Schiff

Writings
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Rabbi Paul
by Bruce Chilton

Paul: His Story
by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

What's Right With Islam is What's Right With America
by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

 

Former Prioress Nancy Bauer, OSB

Recommended Reading Titles

Fully Human, Fully Divine:  An Interactive Christology
A Guide to Living in the Truth:  Saint Benedict's Teaching on Humility
The Undivided Heart:  The Western Monastic Approach to Contemplation
An Unexciting Life:  Reflections on Benedictine Spirituality
Strangers to the City:  Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of Saint Benedict
by Michael Casey

Perspectives on the Rule of Benedict:  Expanding Our Hearts in Christ
by Aquinata Bockmann

My Heart in My Mouth:  Prayers for Our Lives
by Ted Loder

Pope Benedict XVI:  A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger
by John L.  Allen, Jr.

My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

The Virgin's Lover and
The Queen's Fool and
The Other Boleyn Girl and
Earthly Joys and
The Constant Princess
by Philippa Gregory

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle and Other Modern Verse
compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith

Good Poems
edited by Garrison Keillor

 

Abbot John Klassen

 
Recommended Reading Titles

A Monk in the Inner City:  The ABC's of a Spiritual Journey
by Mary Lou Kownacki

Seeking Life:  The Baptismal Invitation of the Rule of Benedict
by Esther deWaal

Blink
by Malcolm Gladwell

In Defense of Food:  An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan

Eats, Shoots and Leaves
by Lynne Truss

God Drops and Loses Things
by Kilian McDonnell

The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman

T is for Trespass
by Sue Grafton

Strangers to the City:  Reflections on the Beliefs and Values of the Rule of Saint Benedict
by Michael Casey

Collapse:  How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond

The Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Huge Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell

Finding Darwin's God:  A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution
by Ken Miller

Never Check E-Mail in the Morning
by Julie Morgenstern

Freakonomics:  A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

Yahweh's Other Shoe and
Swift, Lord, You Are Not and
The Other Hand of God

by Kilian McDonnell

Crucial Conversations
by Kerry Patterson

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and The Texture of Reality
by Brian Green

The Life You Save May Be Your Own
by Paul Elie

At Home in the Cosmos
by David Toolan

Deeper Than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution
by John Haught
 
Believe That I am Here
by Nicole Gausserson
  
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
by Louise Erdich

Bishop John Kinney

 

 

 

 

 

 


Recommended Reading Titles

Armageddon:  The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 and
Retribution:  The Battle for Japan 1944-1945
by Max Hastings

Tears in the Darkness:  The Story of the Bataan March and Its Aftermath
by Michael and Elizabeth Norman

The Impact of God
by Iain Matthew

My Life With the Saints
by James Martin

Master and Commander and Seafaring Series
by Patrick O'Brian

Paul: His Story
by Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
by Alexander McCall Smith

Five Loaves and Two Fishes
by Cardial Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan

Silence
by Shusaku Endo

 

Mary Geller - Vice President of Student Development - CSB

 

 

 

 

 


Recommended Reading Titles

The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent

Paradox of Choice
by Barry Schwartz

Lipstick Jihad
by Azadeh Moaveni

Outliers
by Malcolm Gladwell

Those Who Save Us
by Jenna Blum

Fr. Hilary Thimmesh, OSB,Director of Benedictine Institute

Recommended Reading Titles

The Man on a Donkey Part I and
The Man on a Donkey Part II
by H.M.F. Prescott

The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy Sayers

Revelations of Divine Love
by Julian of Norwich

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
by Ulysses S. Grant

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
by James Shapiro