Readers' Corner
SJU President 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.
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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
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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