Westmont College faculty recommended reading list:
A
- 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
- St. Augustine
- Confessions
- On Christian Doctrine
- Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice
B
- 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
- The Hiding Place
- Eavan Boland
- Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- The Cost of Discipleship
- Life Together
- Daniel Boorstin
- The Discoverers
- The Image
- Alain de Botton
- The Art of Travel
- Charlotte Bronte
- Villette
- Frederick Buechner
- Brendan
- The Eyes of the Heart
- Godric
- The Sacred Journey
- Son of Laughter
- Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairytale
- Wishful Thinking
- John Bunyan
- The Pilgrim’s Progress
C
- John Calvin
- Institutes
- Fred Chappell
- Brighten the Corner Where You Are
- Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
- I Am One of You Forever
- G.K. Chesterton
- The Everlasting Man
- The Father Brown Stories
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- Orthodoxy
- 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
- The Sacred Journey
- Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
D
- 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
- An American Childhood
- For the Time Being
- Holy the Firm
- The Living
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- The Writing Life
- Isak Dinesen
- Out of Africa
- Vincent Donovan
- Christianity Rediscovered
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Crime and Punishment
- David James Duncan
- Brothers K
- The River Why
- Mark Dunn
- Ella Minnow Pea
E
- George Eliot
- Middlemarch
- Jacques Ellul
- The Humiliation of the Word
- The Technological Bluff
- Shusako Endo
- Silence
- Leif Engel
- Peace Like A River
F
- 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
G
- Kaye Gibbons
- Ellen Foster
- Graham Greene
- The End of the Affair
- Norman Grubb
- Rees Howells Intercessor
- Os Guinness
- A Time for Truth
H
- 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
I
- John Irving
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
J
- Harriet Jacobs
- Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl
- Alan Jones
- Soul Making: The Desert Way of Spirituality
K
- 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
L
- 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
M
- 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 of Reading
- 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
N
- 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
O
- 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
P
- 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
Q
- Anna Quindlen
- Object Lessons
R
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
- Speech and Reality
- Arundhati Roy
- God of Small Things.
S
- 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
T
- 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)
- Leo Tolstoy
- Short Stories
- Anna Karenina
- A.W. Tozer
- The Pursuit of God
- Walter Trobish
- I Loved A Girl
- I Married You
W
- Walter Wangerin
- The Book of Dun Cow
- Ragman and Other Cries of Faith
- “On Fairy Stories” (in Tree and Leaf)
- 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
Y
- Phillip Yancey
- What's So Amazing about Grace?
- The Jesus I Never Knew
- John Howard Yoder
- The Politics of Jesus