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April 30, 2004
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Students in my LA&S Senior Seminar this semester had
an interesting idea: What if we asked faculty to suggest
five books graduating seniors should read some day,
if they haven’t already. I asked full-time faculty
in Arts and Sciences, and their responses are printed
below. The students had the notion that such a list
would be a “gift” to the graduating class, but it
seems worth sharing with others in our Dominican University
learning community.
Happy reading!
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Jeff Carlson
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Dean, Rosary College of Arts and Sciences
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Clicking on the title will show
a record giving a description of the book, location,
and call number.
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Peter Alonzi
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Jacob
Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
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Robert
L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers:
The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers
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William
Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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The
Bible
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Jonathan
R. T. Hughes, The Vital Few: The Entrepreneur and
American Economic Progress
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Daniel A. Beach
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Michael
Guillen, Bridges to Infinity: The Human Side of Mathematics
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Jacob
Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
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Carl
Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science
as a Candle in the Dark
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Richard
J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence
and Class Structure in American Life
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Christopher
Jencks and Meredith Phillips, The Black-White Test
Score Gap
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Jean Bevier
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Edgar
Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
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Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours:
Love Poems to God
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James Carse, Breakfast at the Victory:
The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience
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Maria Elena Bravo
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Gabriel
García Márquez, One
Hundred Yeas of Solitude
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Isabel
Allende, The
House of the Spirits
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William
Faulkner, The
Sound and the Fury
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Miguel
de Cervantes, Don Quixote of the Mancha
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Federico
García Lorca, The
House of Bernarda Alba
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Bonnie Burns
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John
Hersey, Hiroshima
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Alison
Weir, Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Stephen
Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
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James
Burke, The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance
Water Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible
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James
Reston, Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart
and Saladin in the Third Crusade
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Richard Calabrese
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Thomas
Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
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Theodore
Dreiser, Sister Carrie
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Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Essay on Self-Reliance
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Antoine
de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
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H.S.
Moorhead, The Meaning of Life: According
to Our Century’s Greatest Writers and Thinkers
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Jeffrey Carlson
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Mircea
Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return
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Friedrich
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
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Soren
Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
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Karl
Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith:
An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity
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Rosemary
Radford Ruether, Faith and Fratricide:
The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism
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Veena Carlson
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Niccolo
Machiavelli, The Prince
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Robert
Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
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Helen
Barolini, Umbertina
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Friedrich
Durrenmatt, The Physicists
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William
Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Javier Carmona
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Norman Mailer, The Fight
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Paul Theroux, Saint Jack
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David Mamet, Three Uses of the Knife:
On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
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Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery
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Ray Carney, Cassavetes on Cassavetes
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Donna M. Carroll
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James
Joyce, Ulysses
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Theodore
Dreiser,
Sister Carrie
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Wallace
Stegner, Crossing to Safety
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Beryl
Markham, West with the Night
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Susan
Minot, Evening
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Ann Charney Colmo
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William
Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust
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Homer,
The Odyssey
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Rousseau,
Discourse on the Origin and Foundations
of Inequality
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Aldous
Huxley, Brave New World
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Lincoln,
His Speeches and Writings, Roy P. Basler,
ed.
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Christopher Colmo
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Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Plato,
The Republic
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Herman Melville, Moby
Dick
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Soren
Kierkegaard, Fear
and Trembling
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Rene Descartes, Discourse on
Method
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Daniel Condon
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Robert
Heilbroner, The
Worldly Philosophers
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Graham
Greene, The
Heart of the Matter
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Alfred
Chandler, The
Visible Hand
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Saul
Bellow, The
Adventures of Augie March
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Donald
Miller, City
of the Century
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Jeffery Cote de Luna
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Vladimir
Nabokov, Lolita
Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo
James Lord, A Giacometti Portrait
Ranier Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young
Poet
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
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David Craig
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Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, “The
Grand Inquisitor”
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Plato,
Republic, Book 7
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Charles
Darwin, On the Origin of Species
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Karl
Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The
Growth of Scientific Knowledge
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Thomas
Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Sr. Jeanne Crapo, OP
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Eamon
Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars
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Barry
Stevens, Don’t Push the River
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Ian
McEwan, Amsterdam
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Jane
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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William
Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
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Sr. Mary Clemente Davlin, OP
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Viktor
Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
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Ann
Morrow Lindberg, Gift
from the Sea
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The New Testament
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Piers Plowman
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William
Shakespeare, Sonnets
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Anne Drougas
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Toni
Morrison, The Bluest Eye
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Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment
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William
Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis
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Agatha
Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
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Todd
G. Buchholz, New Ideas from Dead Economists
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Mary Pat Fallon
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Doris
Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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William
Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
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Wallace
Stegner, The Angle of Repose
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Ernest
Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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Kate
Chopin, The Awakening
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Robert Faltynek
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Winston
Churchill, The History of the English Speaking
People
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Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Michael
Frayn, Copenhagen
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C.
S. Lewis, Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent
Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength
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C.
P. Snow, The Two Cultures
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J. Brent Friesen
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Oswald
Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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Brent
Curtis & John Eldredge, The Sacred
Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of
God
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A.W.
Tozer, Pursuit of God
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E.F.
Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics
as if People Mattered
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Simon
Garfield, Mauve: How One Man Invented a
Color That Changed the World
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Bryan Froehle
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Thomas
More, Utopia
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Barrington
Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and
Democracy
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Ernst
Troeltsch, Social Teaching of the Christian
Churches
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Andrew
Greeley, The Catholic Imagination
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Charles
Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution
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William P. George
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Saint
Augustine, Confessions
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Homer,
The Odyssey
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Rudolf Otto, The Idea of the Holy
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Karl
Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The
Political and Economic Origins of our Time
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Leo
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Kara L. Giles
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Robert
M. Pirsig, Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:
An Inquiry into Values
Susan Faludi, Stiffed:
The Betrayal of the American Man
Atul
Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an
Imperfect Science
Zora Neale Hurston, Their
Eyes Were Watching God
Donald
A. Norman, The
Design of Everyday Things
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Germaine Goetz-Sota
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Caroline
Myss, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your
Divine Potential
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Julia
Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual
Path to Higher Creativity
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Norton
Hunt, The Natural History of Love
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Sam
Keen, Fire in the Belly
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James
Welch, The Heartsong of Charging Elk
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Mordechai Goodman
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The
Bible
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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Nathaniel
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Mitch
Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
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Rosalind Hays
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Homer,
The Odyssey
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Thucydides,
Peloponnesian War
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Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales (Oxford translation)
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George
Eliot, Adam Bede
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Leo
Tolstoy, War and Peace
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Janet Helwig
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Harper
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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James
Michener, Space
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Sinclair
Lewis, Babbitt
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Theodore
Dreiser, Sister Carrie
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Laura
Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit
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Sr. Marcella Hermesdorf, OP
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Henry
David Thoreau, Walden
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Etty
Hillesum,
An Interrupted Life
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Jane
Austen, Emma
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John
Keats, poetry selections
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Kathy Heskin
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Ronald
Rolheiser, Holy Longing
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Jane
Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Kent
Nerburn, Neither Wolf Nor Dog
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Paulo
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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G.
K. Chesterton, Everlasting Man
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Arvid Johnson
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James
Burke, The
Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to
Stonehenge and Back - And Other Journeys
Through Knowledge
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Charles
Handy, The
Hungry Spirit - Beyond Capitalism: A Quest
for Purpose in the Modern World
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Eliyahu
Goldratt, The
Goal - A Process of Ongoing Improvement
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Edward
Tufte, The
Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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Gordon
MacKenzie, Orbiting
the Giant Hairball - A Corporate Fool’s
Guide to Surviving with Grace
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Douglas Keberlein Gutiérez
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Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, One
Hundred Years of Solitude
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Isabel
Allende, The
House of the Spirits
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Gordon
S. Wood, The
Radicalism of the American Revolution
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William
J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick, The
Ugly American
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E.
J. Dionne, Jr., Why
Americans Hate Politics
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Hugh T. McElwain
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Albert
Camus, The
Stranger
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Victor
Frankl, Man’s
Search for Meaning: An Introduction to
Logotherapy
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Huston
Smith, The
World’s Religions
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Sophocles,
Antigone
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Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, The
Future of Man
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Ellen McManus
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Jane
Austen, Pride
and Prejudice
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Leo
Tolstoy, Anna
Karenina
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George
Eliot, Daniel
Deronda
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Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, One
Hundred Years of Solitude
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Mario
Vargas Llosa, The
War of the End of the World
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Janice Monti
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist
Manifesto
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Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism
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Jean
Jacques Rousseau,
Social Contract
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Paulo
Freire,
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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Upton
Sinclair,
The Jungle
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Liesl Orenic
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Ben
Hamper, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly
Line
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Timothy
Gilfoyle, City
of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and
the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
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Barbara
Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
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Sam
Smith, Sam Smith’s Great American Political
Repair Manual: How to Rebuild Our Country
So the Politics Aren’t Broken and the
Politicians Aren’t Fixed
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Freeman
Dyson, Disturbing the Universe
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Daniela Orlandi
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Dante
Alighieri, Divine Comedy
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Italo
Calvino, Our Ancestors: The Baron in the
Trees, The Nonexistent Night and the Cloven
Viscount
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Graham
Greene, The End of the Affair
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Kahlil
Gibran, The Prophet
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Saint
Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Heather Parisi
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Sinclair
Lewis, Babbitt
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Mary
Shelley, Frankenstein
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Ayn
Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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Carl
Jung, Undiscovered Self
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Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
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Inez Ringland
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Plato,
Republic
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Bible:
Genesis |
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Henry
Fielding, Tom Jones
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Jane
Austen, Pride
and Prejudice
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Marrk
Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Chad Rohman
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Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Ralph
Ellison,
Invisible Man
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C.
S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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Henry
David Thoreau, Walden
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Toni
Morrison, Beloved
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Sr. Peggy Schott, OP
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Mary
Catherine Bateson, Composing a Life
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M.
Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
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Margaret
Mead, Blackberry Winter
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Rollo
May, The Courage to Create
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The New Testament |
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Theresa Schultz
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Maya Angelou, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, Poem by
Maya Angelou/Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Douglas Wood, Old Turtle and the Broken Truth,
Story by Douglas Wood/Watercolors by Jon
J. Muth
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Faith
Ringgold, Tar Beach
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Jon
Scieszka, The True Story of the 3 Little
Pigs by A. Wolf (as told to Jon Scieszka)
Eve
Bunting, Smoky Night, Story by Eve
Bunting/Illustrations by David Diaz
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Mickey Sweeney
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Beowulf
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Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sir
Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur
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William
Shakespeare, Macbeth
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J.
R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Trilogy
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Peter Taylor
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Sigmund
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
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Benedict
Anderson, Imagined Communities
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Eric
R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without
History
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Octavio
Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude
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Michel
Foucault, Discipline and Punish
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Sr. Melissa Waters, OP
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Ian
McEwan, Atonement
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Susan
Howatch, Penmarric
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Sigrid
Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
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José
María Gironella, The Cypresses
Believe in God
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Doris
Lessing, The Grass is Singing
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Clodagh Weldon
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The
Bible |
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Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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Soren
Kierkegaard, Either/Or
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Sigmund
Freud, The Future of An Illusion
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G.K.
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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Rev. Richard Woods, OP
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The
Gospel According to John
St. Augustine, Confessions
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Leo
Tolstoy, War and Peace
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James
Madison and Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist
Papers
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William
James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Florence Zamsky
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Guillaume
Apollinaire, Alcools
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Albert
Camus, Caligula
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Marguerite
Duras, Moderato Cantabile
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André
Gide, L’Immoraliste
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André
Malraux, La Condition humaine (Man’s Fate)
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Carole Zucco
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Aeschylus, The Oresteia
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Gerald Dickler, On Trial:
History-Making Trials from Socrates to
Oppenheimer
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Gail Tsukiyama, Samurai's
Garden
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John Knowles, A Separate Peace
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Mark Twain, The Prince and
the Pauper
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