100 Books We Love
For more than 200 years, Hoyas have been falling in love with books. Romances of that sort seem to go hand in hand with a liberal arts education. Not surprisingly, Georgetown College students, alumni, professors, and administrators often find ourselves asking one another, "So, what are you reading? Any recommendations?"
Below you will find a list of 100 books. They are of all genres, subjects, and eras, and listed in no particular order. They are simply a compilation of the Dean's Office staff responses to the quintessentially Hoya question:
"What books do you love?"
Without further ado, the Dean's Office 100:
North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
With Malice Toward None by Stephen B. Oates
How I Believe by Teilhard de Chardin
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor
The Road to Ubar by Nicholas Clapp
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel
The Working Poor by David Shipler
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Bruneschelli’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
The Mystery of Faith: An Introduction to Catholicism by Michael J. Himes
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Barrytown Trilogy by Roddy Doyle
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Rookery Blues by John Hassler
The Dead by James Joyce
Small World by David Lodge
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Boob Jubilee edited by Thomas Frank
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Emblems of Mind by Edward Rothstein
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
The Secret Life of Bees by Susan Monk Kidd
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts in Faith by Anne Lamott
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Rivertown by Peter Hessler
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
Waiting by Ha Jin
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
What is the What by Dave Eggers
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
John Adams by David McCullough
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough
The Habit of Being: The Letters of Flannery O’Connor
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
A Jesuit Off-Broadway by James Martin
Personal History by Katharine Graham
The Volcano Lover: A Romance by Susan Sontag
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
The Diary of a Country Priest by George Bernanos and Remy Rougeau
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
The Last Lion by William Manchester
American Caesar by William Manchester
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
