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Books Recommended by SJP Faculty and Staff


Dr. Berna

  • Descartes' Error
  • The Body has a Mind of Its Own
  • Love at Goon Park
  • The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
  • Freakonomics

Fr. George Bur

  • Big Russ and Me
  • Dead Man Walking

Ms. Christian

  • If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box me Up and Ship Me Home)(Memoir)
  • Cat's Eye
  • The Kite Runner
  • Sailing Alone Around the Room (Poetry)
  • What Is the What?

Mr. Coffee

  • The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854
  • O Pioneers!
  • A Good Man is Hard to Find
  • Crisis of the House Divided
  • Where the Red Fern Grows

Mr. Conner

  • A People's History of the United States
  • Angela's Ashes
  • Secrets
  • First City
  • Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes, Mismeasure of Man, The Panda's Thumb, Ever Since Darwin

Mr. Coyle

  • Fight Club
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • Trainspotting
  • Season of Life
  • Requiem for a Dream

Mr. Farren

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

Mr. Fitzgibbons

  • Ultra-Marathon Man
  • Traveling Mercies
  • Awaken The Giant Within
  • Season of Life
  • Requiem for a Dream

Mr. Fitzgibbons

  • Ultra-Marathon Man
  • Traveling Mercies
  • Awaken The Giant Within

Mr. Gomez

  • A Separate Peace
  • The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
  • Heroic Leadership

Mr. Groch

  • The Broker
  • Pillars of the Earth
  • Pontiff in Winter

Mr. Kearney

  • The Divine Comedy
  • The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
  • Through The Looking-Glass
  • Sailing Alone Around The Room
  • Catch-22

Mr. Kilpatrick

  • Green Grass Grace
  • A Star Called Henry

Ms. Mascio

  • The Bell Jar
  • Harry Potter (all!)
  • This Side of Paradise
  • The Hours
  • Sad Little Breathing Machine

Mr. Magree

  • Lord of the Rings Trilogy
  • The Moviegoer
  • He Leadeth Me
  • Edmund Campion
  • Uncle Fred in the Springtime

Mr. McCloskey

  • The Giving Tree
  • A Time to Kill
  • Letters from a Nut

Mr. Morrissey

  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • The Bluest Eye
  • Anything by Raymond Carver

Mrs. Nelson

  • Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • Happy Baby
  • Travels with My Donkey : One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
  • South of No North

Mr. Oldham

  • Seven Story Mountain
  • The Long Loneliness
  • A Force More Powerful
  • War and Peace
  • The Brothers Karamazov

Mr. Patragnoni

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  • Tender is the Night
  • Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Mr. Robson

  • Waiting for Snow in Havana

Ms. Ryan

  • The Gilded Age
  • Short stories by Stephen Crane
  • She's Come Undone
  • Plainsong
  • Fall on Your Knees

Mr. Turner

  • I, Claudius
  • Anabasis
  • The Red Badge of Courage
  • The Known World
  • Mystic River

Mr. Whelan

  • To the White Sea

Sr. Woody

  • Staggerford
  • A Green Journey
  • Other Boleyn Girl