Readers' Corner

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

 

SJU President, Dietrich Reinhart, OSB

 

 

 

 

 

Recommended Reading Titles

The Good Priest's Son
by Reynolds Price

Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry

The Angel with One Hundred Wings
by Daniel Horch

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

Dark River &
Nightland
by Louis Owens

Station Island
by Seamus Heaney

Atlantis
by Mark Doty

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

 

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
The Queen's Fool
The Other Boleyn Girl
Earthly Joys
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

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
Swift, Lord, You Are Not
The Other Hand of God
by Kilian McDonnell

Crucial Confrontations
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

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

In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez

Marley and Me
by John Grogan

North of Hope
by Jon Hassler

I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron

Brown:  The Last Discovery of America
by Richard Rodriguez

Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
by Wayne Muller

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish