The Class of 1970 Recommends...
Members of the 50th Reunion Class have done a lot of reading. Check out the books that have meant the most to them. How many have you read?
Classic Books
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
- Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
- The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Iliad by Homer
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Northwest Passage by Kenneth Roberts
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Place on Earth by Wendell Berry
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- The Prophets by Abraham J. Heschel
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- A Soldier in the Great War by Mark Helprin
- Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
- Systematic Theology by Paul Tillich
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Poetry by Wallace Stevens
Newer Books
- Also Plays by Karl Lindholm
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- The Body by Bill Bryson
- Code Girls by Liza Mundy
- The Colour of Milk by Neil Leyshon
- Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
- Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken
- The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
- Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
- Euphoria by Lily King
- Every Note Played by Lisa Genova
- A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Help, Thanks, Wow by Anne Lamott
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
- The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
- The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
- Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
- Proof of Conspiracy by Seth Abramson
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
- Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman
- True Believers by Kurt Andersen
- Until the End of Time by Brian Greene
- A Very Stable Genius by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
- Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
- Any poetry by Billy Collins
- Any book by Carl Hiaasen
- Anything by Brad Thor, Nelson DeMille, Ted Bell, or Lee Child