The Class of 1970 Recommends...

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