Some Good Books
Cliff Williams
Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Trinity College of International University
Deerfield, Illinois
Fiction
Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
Hannah Coulter
Frederick Buechner, Godric
Calvin and Hobbes, Scientific Progress Goes ‘Boink’
Something Under the Bed Is Drooling
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Annie Dillard, The Living
Fyodor Dostoyevski, Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
George Elliot, Middlemarch
Kaye Gibbons, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Till We Have Faces
Francois Mauriac, Viper’s Tangle
Woman of the Pharisees
Herman Melville, Billy Budd
Moby-Dick
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
The House at Pooh Corner
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Donna Jo Napoli, Song of the Magdalene
Chaim Potok, The Chosen
The Promise
My Name Is Asher Lev
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Resurrection
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Walter Wangerin, The Book of Sorrows
Nonfiction
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Augustine, Confessions
Beatitudes
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Escape from Evil
Frederic Buechner, Telling Secrets
Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
An American Childhood
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ecclesiastes
C. Stephen Evans, Why Believe?
Henry Louis Gates, The Classic Slave Narratives
John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me
Soren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is To Will One Thing
Works of Love
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Traveling Mercies
C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Henri Nouwen, The Way of the Heart
Pascal, Pensées
Martin Rees, Before the Beginning
Romans
Sermon on the Mount
Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Paul Tournier, Guilt and Grace
The Meaning of Persons
Elie Wiesel, Night
Philip Yancy, Soul Survivor
Poetry
Wendell Berry, Collected Poems
David Impastato, ed., Unfolding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry
Denise Levertov, Selected Poems
The Stream and the Sapphire
Mary Oliver, Evidence
Thirst