Lifetime Syllabus
Westmont College faculty recommended reading list:
Thomas a’Kempis
The Imitation of Christ
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Bryan Appleyard
Understanding the Present
Confessions
On Christian Doctrine
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Robert Bellah, et al
Habits of the Heart
Wendell Berry
Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community
What Are People For?
Life is a Miracle
Harry Blamires
The Christian Mind
Allan Bloom
The Closing of the American Mind
Corrie Ten Bloom
TheHiding Place
Eavan Boland
Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship
Life Together
Daniel Boorstin
The Image
The Discoverers
Alain de Botton
The Art of Travel
Charlotte Bronte
Villette
Frederick Buechner
Godric
Brendan
Son of Laughter
Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairytale
Wishful Thinking
The Sacred Journey
The Eyes of the Heart
John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress
John Calvin
Institutes
Fred Chappell
I Am One of You Forever
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
G.K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Father Brown Stories
Orthodoxy
The Everlasting Man
The Quotable Chesterton
Donald Clark
Rhetoric in Greco-Roman Education
Billy Collins
The Art of Drowning (poetry)
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Stephen Covey
First Things First
Brent Curtis
Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
The Sacred Journey
Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species
Stenley Deetz
Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization
Don DeLillo
White Noise (fiction)
Charles Dickens
David Copperfield
Annie Dillard
The Living
For the Time Being
An American Childhood
The Writing Life
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Holy the Firm
Isak Dinesen
Out of Africa
Vincent Donovan
Christianity Rediscovered
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
David James Duncan
The River Why
Brothers K
Mark Dunn
Ella Minnow Pea
George Eliot
Middlemarch
Jacques Ellul
The Humiliation of the Word
The Technological Bluff
Shusako Endo
Silence
Leif Engel
Peace Like A River
Austin Farrer
Love Almighty and Ills Unlimited
William Faulkner
Go Down Moses
Richard Feynmann
Surely you're Joking, Feynmann
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
Richard Foster and James Bryan Smith
Devotional Classics: SelectedReadings
Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Brian Friel
Dancing at Lughnasa
Kaye Gibbons
Ellen Foster
Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
Norman Grubb
Rees Howells Intercessor
Os Guinness
A Time for Truth
Edward T. Hall
The Dance of Life
O. Hallesby
Prayer
Ken Haruf
Plainsong
Stephen Hawking
A brief History of Time
Richard Hays
The Moral Vision of the New Testament
Ursula Hegi
Stones from the River
George Herbert
Complete Works
James Houston
I Believe in the Creator
Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
Lewis Hyde
The Gift
John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Harriet Jacobs
Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl
Alan Jones
Soul Making: TheDesert Way of Spirituality
Phillip Keller
A Shepherd looks at Psalm 23
William Kilpatrick
Psychological Seduction
Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air
Peter Kreeft
Heaven: The Heart�s Deepest Desire
Anne LaMott
Blue Shoe
Traveling Mercies
Bird by Bird
Camera Laye
The Dark Child
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wind in the Door
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Circle of Quiet
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Denise Levertov-
Breathing the Water, A Door in the Hive, Evening Train, Sands of the Well
C.S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia
Screwtape Letters
The Great Divorce
Space Trilogy
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
Out of the Silent Planet
Till We Have Faces
Mere Christianity
Surprised by Joy
A Grief Observed
God in the Dock
The Abolition of Man
The Weight of Glory
Christian Reflections
Miracles
The Problem of Pain
Letters of C.S. Lewis
Letters to an American Lady
Letters to Malcomb: Chiefly on Prayer
Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams
The Diagnosis
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gift from the Sea
Robert Ludlum
The Parsifal Mosaic
George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and Curdie
At the Back of the North Wind
The Wise Woman
The Golden Key
The Light Princess
The Grey Wolf
Sir Gibbie
Diary of an Old Soul
Life Essential
An Anthology
Alberto Manguel
A History ofReading
Brennan Manning
Lion and Lamb
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
100 Years of Solitude
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Michael Mason
The Mysteries of Marriage
Gerald May
Addiction and Grace
Bill McKibben
The Age of Missing Information
Thomas Merton
No Man Is An Island
Seeds of Contemplation
John Milton
Paradise Lost
K. Moore
Finding God at Harvard
Marlo Morgan
Mutant Message Down Under
Robert Morgan
Gap Creek
Toni Morrison
Beloved
Malcolm Muggeridge
Jesus Rediscovered
The End of Christendom
Christ and the Media
The Green Stick
The Infernal Grove
Confessions of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim
Andrew Murray
With Christ in the School of Prayer
Kenneth Myers
All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes
Stephen Nachmanovich
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Shirley Nelson
The Last Year of the War
David Newsome
The Parting of Friends
Kathleen Norris
Dakota
Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
The Cloister Walk
Julian of Norwich
Revelations of Divine Love
Henry Nouwen
The Living Reminder
The Wounded Healer
In the Name of Jesus
Reaching Out
The Only Necessary Thing
Return of the Prodigal Son
Flannery O’Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Wise Blood
Mystery and Manners
Everything that Rises Must Converge
Oeglar
Out of Our Past
Mary Oliver
Poetry
J.J. Packer
Knowing God
Blaise Pascal
Pensees
Alan Paton
Cry the Beloved Country
Charles Percy and Baron Snow
The Masters
Walker Percy
The Second Coming
The Moviegoer
Love in the Ruins
Lost in the Cosmos
The Message in the Bottle
Signposts in a Strange Land
Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Disappearance of Childhood
Technopoly
Conscientious Objections
The End of Education
Chaim Potok
My Name is Asher Lev
Davida’s Harp
Anna Quindlen
Object Lessons
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Speech and Reality
Arundhati Roy
God of Small Things.
Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat
Seeing Voices
A Leg to Stand On
An Anthropologist on Mars
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Mark Salzman Lying Awake
Barry Sanders
A is for OX: The Collapse of Literacy and the Rise of Violence in an Electronic Age
The Private Death of Public Discourse
Dorothy L. Sayers
Strong Poison
Gaudy Night
The Nine Tailors
The Whimsical Christian
A Matter of Eternity
Are Women Human?
Shakespeare
King Lear
Ronald Sider
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Andrew McCall Smith
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Gregory Spencer
The Welkening : A Three Dimensional Tale
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene
Wallace Stegner
Crossing to Safety
Angle of Repose
Short Stories
John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath
Sean Sullivan
Morning Light: The Spiritual Journal
Hudson Taylor
Spiritual Secret
Paul Theroux
Dark Star Safari
R.S Thomas
Poetry
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Farmer Giles of Ham
“Leaf by Niggle” (in Tree and Leaf)
Walter Wangerin
The Book of Dun Cow
Ragman and Other Cries of Faith
“On Fairy Stories” (in Tree and Leaf)
Leo Tolstoy
Short Stories
Anna Karenina
A.W. Tozer
The Pursuit of God
Walter Trobish
I Loved A Girl
I Married You
Jonathan Weiner
The Beak of the Finch
John White
Eros Defiled
Terry Tempest Williams
Refuge
E.O. Wilson
The Diversity of Life
Dallas Willard
The Divine Conspiracy
Charles Williams
Descent into Hell
The Place of the Lion
Descent of the Dove
He Came Down from Heaven
Virginia Wolf
A Room of Her Own
Herman Wouk
Winds of War
H. Norman Wright
Quiet Times for Couples
Phillip Yancey
What's So Amazing about Grace?
The Jesus I Never Knew
John Howard Yoder
The Politics of Jesus