Dates denote years on the list.

1. James Agee, A Death in the Family, 1984-
2. Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage, 1996
3. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim, 1982-
4. Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace, 1993-1999
5. Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal, 2000
6. Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams, 2007-
7. Robert N. Bellah and Colleagues, Habits of the Heart, 1985-1991
8. Peter Berger, Rumor of Angels, 1982-1983
9. George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest, 1982-
10. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace, 1997
11. Ben Birnbaum, “How to Pray: Reverence, Stories, And the Rebbe’s Dream,” in Kathleen Norris (ed.), The Best American Essays 2001, 2002
12. Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind, 1987
13. Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons, 1982-
14. Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation, 1999
15. Frederick Buechner, Godric, 1984
16. Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, 1991-93
17. Albert Camus, The Fall, 1982-
18. Ethan Canin, Emperor of the Air, 1994-1995
19. Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star, 1985
20. George Crile, Charlie Wilson’s War, 2005
21. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood, 1990-1991
22. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1986-1989
23. Annie Dillard, The Living, 1992
24. Charles F. Donovan, S.J., History of Boston College, 1990-1993
25. Brian Doyle, The Wet Engine, 2007
26. Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope, 1984-1985
27. Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, 2004-2006
28. Joseph Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington, 2005-
29. Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man, 1982-1997
30. Shusaku Endo, Deep River, 1995-1997
31. Shusaku Endo, Silence, 1982-1994
32. Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris, 2001
33. David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere's Ride, 1995
34. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1982-
35. Thomas Flanagan, The End of the Hunt, 1994
36. Thomas Flanagan, Tenants of Time, 1988
37. Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French, 1982-1986
38. Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 1982-1985
39. William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1983-1990
40. Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon, 2002
41. Mary Gordon, Final Payments, 1982-1989
42. Thomas Grady and Paula Huston (eds.) Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments, 2000-2001
43. Elizabeth Graver, Unravelling, 1998
44. Elizabeth Graver, The Honey Thief, 2000
45. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair, 2000-2005
46. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, 1982-1999, 2006-
47. Thomas Groome, What Makes Us Catholic, 2002
48. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1996
49. Ron Hansen, Atticus, 1997-1998
50. Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1982-1986
51. Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire, 2005
52. Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, 2000-2004
53. Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, 2003
54. Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life, 1990-
55. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2006
56. James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1982-2000
57. Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm, 1998-2003
58. John Keegan, Face of Battle, 1982-1995
59. Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days, 1986
60. Thomas Keneally, Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, 1982-1983
61. Thomas Keneally, The Confederates, 1984
62. William Kennedy, Ironweed, 1985-1987
63. Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, 2004
64. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, 1991-1995
65. Milan Kundera, Immortality, 1995-1996
66. Milan Kundera, The Joke, 1991
67. Florence Ladd, Sarah’s Psalm, 1999
68. Guiseppe Lampedusa, The Leopard, 1982-1997
69. H. C. Robbins Landon, 1791 Mozart's Last Year, 1991
70. Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel, 1987
71. William Leonard, S.J. The Letter Carrier, 1993
72. William J. Leonard, S.J., Where Thousands Fell, 1995
73. Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics, 2006
74. Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam, 2003
75. Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams, 1993
76. Anthony J. Lucas, Common Ground, 1986
77. Paul Mariani, Thirty Days, 2002
78. Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2003
79. Suzanne Matson, The Hunger Moon, 1998
80. Suzanne Matson, The Tree-Sitter, 2006
81. Suzanne Matson, A Trick of Nature, 2001
82. Francois Mauriac, Viper's Tangle, 1982
83. Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, 1994
84. Eugene McCarthy, Up 'Til Now, 1987
85. Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, 1997-1998
86. David McCullough, John Adams, 2002
87. David McCullough, Truman, 1993-
88. Alice McDermott, After This, 2007
89. Alice McDermott, At Weddings and Wakes, 1993-1994
90. Alice McDermott, Charming Billy, 1999-2000
91. Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart, 2003-
92. James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom, 1989
93. Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art, 2006
94. Charles Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church, 1999-
95. Gloria Naylor, Women of Brewster Place, 1994-1999
96. Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1998-
97. Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock, 1988
98. Thomas O'Connor, The Boston Irish, 1996-1997
99. Thomas O'Connor, Civil War Boston, 1998
100. Thomas O’Connor, The Hub: Boston Past and President, 2001
101. John O'Malley, S.J. The First Jesuits, 1994-
102. Thomas P. O'Neill, Man of the House, 1988-91
103. Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries, 1987-2004
104. Ann Petry, The Street, 1996-2000
105. J. F. Powers, Morte d'Urban, 1982-1984
106. J. F. Powers, Wheat that Springeth Green, 1989-1990
107. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, 2005-
108. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping, 1997-1999
109. O. E. Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth, 1982-1983
110. Colin A. Ronan, The Natural History of the Universe, 1992
111. Tim Russert, Big Russ and Me, 2005
112. Tim Russert, Wisdom of Our Fathers, 2007
113. Simon Schama, Citizens, 1989
114. Nancy Lusignan Schulz, Fire and Roses, 2001
115. Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels, 1999-
116. Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers, 2003
117. Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine, 1983-1992
118. Dava Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter, 2001-2004
119. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle, 1982-1988
120. Wallace Stegner, Collected Short Stories, 1990-
121. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety, 1989
122. Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, 1992
123. Peter Steinfels, A People Adrift, 2004-2005
124. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1990
125. R. H. Tawney, Religion and Rise of Capitalism, 1982-1983
126. Studs Terkel, Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About The American Obsession, 1992
127. Christopher Tilghman, In a Father's Place, 1992-1993
128. Sigrid Undset, Gunnar's Daughter, 1989
129. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter, 1982-1988, 1990-
130. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men, 1982-
131. David Warsh, Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations, 2007
132. Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, 1996
133. Garry Wills, Saint Augustine, 2000-
134. Simon Winchester, River at the Center of the World, 1997
135. Jay Winik, April 1865, The Month that Saved America, 2004-
136. Alan Wolfe, The Transformation of American Religion, 2004
137. Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities, 1988
138. Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger, 1982-1990
139. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 1982-1996

Recommendations for an evening of good reading from Fr. William Neenan.