Faculty Recommendations for Graduates
The Faculty of Tennessee Wesleyan College has chosen the following works as those that all graduates should read as they leave college days behind and continue life’s journey. TWC students, these are our gifts to you. Prepare yourself for life: get busy reading!
Dr. John Berch
Blue Highways - William Least Heat Moon E169.02 .H385 1982
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field - Kary Mullis Q173 .M96 2000
Night – Elie Wiesel D804.3.W54 1982
“Song of the Open Road” – Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass PS3201 1950
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand PS3535.A547Fx
Mr. John Carroll
Servant Leadership - Robert K. Greenleaf HM1261.G743 2002
The Present - Spencer Johnson BJ1481.J635 2003
Who Moved My Cheese? – Spencer Johnson BF637.C4J64 1998
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey BF637.S8C68 1990
The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren BV4501.3.W37
Ms. Sandra Clariday
Watership Down: A Novel - Richard Adams PR6051.D345W3 1974
A Circle of Quiet - Madeleine L’Engle PS3523.E55Z5
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman HM846.F74 2006
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens PR4571.A1
The Accidental Tourist: A Novel - Anne Tyler PS3570.Y45A64 1985
Dr. David Duncan
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller PS3558.E476C38 1961
A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean PS3563.A317993 R58 1992
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole PS3570.O54C66 1980
On the Beach - Nevil Shute PR6027.D54O5 1957
The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam E841.H25
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Neil Sheehan DS558.S47 1988
Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther - Roland Bainton BR325.B26
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - Simon Schama DC148.S43 1989
Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down Over Germany in World War II- Tom Childers D790.C466 1995
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank - Thad Carhart ML650 .C32
Gospel: A Novel - Wilton Barnhardt PS3552 .A6994G67
Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole - Roland Huntford G875 .S35H86 1999
Bring on the Empty Horses - David Niven PN2598.N5A29
The Great Santini - Pat Conroy PS3553.O5198G7 1987
Small World - David Lodge PR6062 .O36S64
Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community - Durwood Dunn F444.C26D86 1988
Dr. Ruth Elliott
The Bible BS195 .S6 and others
A Man Called Peter - Catherine Marshall BX9225.M352M3
Hardwiring Excellence - Quint Studer RA971 .S865
Servant Leadership - Greenleaf HM1261.G743 2002
Notes on Nursing – Florence Nightingale RT40.N5
On Nursing: A Literary Collection - Margretta Stiles PN6071.N87O58
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Fire in My Bones - Charles H. King, Jr. E185.97 .K46A34
Ms. Linda Garza
A Child Called “It”- Dave Pelzer HV883.C2P45
Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin - Anne Katherine BF469 .K38 2000
A Dignified Life: the Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Care - Virginia Bell and David Troxel RC523.B434 2002
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls HV5132 .W35 2005
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria ?- Beverly Daniel Tatum E185.625 .T38
Ms. Lynne Gylani
The Invisible Pyramid – Loren Eisley CB19.E38
Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore BL624 .M663 1998
The Sacred Depths of Nature – Jane Goodenough QH331.G624
and two movies:
Fried Green Tomatoes DVD 96
The Razor’s Edge with Bill Murray DVD 90
Dr. Suzanne Hine
Servant Leadership - Robert Greenleaf HM1261.G743 2002
America – Charles Kuralt E169.O4K87 1995
In Search of Excellence - Thomas Peters HD70.U5P424 1982
The Greatest Generation - Tom Brokaw D811.A2B746 1998
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey BF637.S8C68 1990
Ms. Julie Jack
Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott PS3562 .A4645Z47
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith - Anne Lamott PS3562 .A4645Z467
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut – PS3572.O5S…
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris PS3569.E314M4
Dr. Patti Jones
The Secret - Rhonda Byrne BF637.S8B9 2006
Unleashing Your Brilliance - Brian Walsh BF318.W36
Choosing Health - Mark Force RZ440.F667 2003
Your Journal of Self Discovery - Beverly Block
Dr. Martha Maddox
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell PS3525.I972G6
The Present - Spencer Johnson BJ1481.J635
Who Moved My Cheese - Spencer Johnson BF637.C4J64
Sam Walton: Made in America - Sam Walton with John Huey HC102.5.W35A3
Yes or No: The Guide to Better Decisions - Spencer Johnson HD30.23.J65
Dr. William McDonald
Confessions – Augustine BR65.A6E5 1949
“The Freedom of a Christian” – Martin Luther BR331.E5 1989a p.585
“The Catholic Spirit”- John Wesley BX8217.W5 1984, sermons vol. II
Let Your Life Speak - Parker J. Palmer – e-book
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith - Ann Lamott PS3562 .A4645Z47
Dr. Allen Moore
On the Road - Jack Kerouac PS3521.E735O5
Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac PS3521 .E735D48
The Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison PS3555.L625I5
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving PS3559.R8P7
Dr. Dick Pelley
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Malcolm Gladwell BF448.G53
Dr. Sam Roberts
Monarch of the Glen - Compton MacKenzie (BBC drama series and book)
Ms. Sarah Roy
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury PS3503.R167 F33
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank DS135.N6 F73313 1995
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis BR123.L484 1952
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde PR5819.A1
Poetry by Pablo Neruda PQ8097.N4 A2 2003, PQ8097.N4 A6…
Dr. Elizabeth Ruleman
The Odyssey - Homer PA4025.A5 F5
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy PG3366 .A13
Hamlet – Shakespeare PR2807.A2 B46
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens PR4558 .A1 1900z
“Ulysses” – Tennyson PR5550.F07
“A Worn Path” – Eudora Welty PS3545.E6A15
Dr. William Ruleman
Holy Bible BS195 .S6 and others
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller PS3525.I5156D4 1967
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy PG3366 .A13
Norton Anthology of Poetry PR1174.N61986
The sonnets of Shakespeare, particularly #18
“The Relic” – John Donne
“On His Blindness” and “Lycidas” – John Milton
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” – Thomas Gray
“Songs of Experience” – William Blake
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” – William Wordsworth
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” – Keats
“In Memoriam A.H.H.” – Tennyson
“Easter 1916″, “To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing”, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”, “A Prayer for My Daughter”, “Among School Children”, – Yeats
“In Memory of W.B. Yeats” and “In Praise of Limestone” – Auden
“Little Gidding” – T.S. Eliot
“An Arundel Tomb” – Philip Larkin
“Fern Hill” and “Poem in October” – Dylan Thomas
King Lear - Shakespeare PR2819.A2F7
War and Peace - Tolstoy PG3366.V61931
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence PR6023.A93Rx
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf PR6045.W91m
The Short Novels of Thomas Wolfe, especially No Door and I Have a Thing to Tell You – PZ3.W855S6
Dr. James Schiavoni
Oedipus Rex and Antigone – Sophocles PA3626.A2L3,PA4414.A7G53
The Divine Comedy - Dante PQ4315.D87
Don Quixote - Cervantes PQ6329.A2
Complete Works - Shakespeare PR2754.C7
Dubliners - James Joyce PR6019.O9D8
Dr. Chris Schutz
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck PS3537.T3234G8
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller PS3525.I5156D4
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee PS3562.E353T6
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois E185.5.D817
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien PS648.S5B4
A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean PS3563.A317993R58
Dr. Mark Shoop
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee PS3562.E353T6 1995
The World According to Garp - John Irving PS3559.R8W67
Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin, Special Coll. QH11.D2 1909
Travels With Charley- John Steinbeck E169.S82
Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut PS3572.O5S53
Dr. Kerry Towler
The Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale BV4908.5.P42
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey BF637.S8C68
Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy - Barbara Johnson
Almost any book by Zig Ziglar HF5438.25.Z545
Still Me - Christopher Reeve PN2287.R292A3
Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life - Christopher Reeve
Books by David and Leigh Eddings (fantasy/scifi) we have The Belgariad v. 1 PS3555.D38B45
Books by Jack Whyte (historical fiction) See The Skystone PR9199.3 .W4589S58 1996
The novels of Jane Austen – PR4031.C5
Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter-Sidney Poitier
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Uncovered a Hidden Intelligence and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process- Irene Pepperberg
Dr. Lori Waite
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison PS3563.O8749S66
Strangers from a Different Shore - Ronald Takaki E184 .O6T35
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou E185.97.A56A3
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America - Paula Giddings E185.86.G49
Celia, A Slave - Melton McLaurin KF223.C43M34
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women - E. Liebow HV4506.W2L54
The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois E185.5.D817
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance - James C. Scott – e-book
An American Dilemma - Gunnar Myrdal E185.6.M95
Dr. Genevieve Wiggins
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens PR4558 .A1
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen PR4034 .P7
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain PS1305.A2 F46
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad PR6005.O4 H4
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne PS1868 .A1
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy PR4749 .A7
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee PS3562.E353T6
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte PR4167 .J3
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte PR4172 .W7
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck PS3537.T3234 G73
Dr. Grant Willhite
Finding Darwin’s God - Kenneth R. Miller BT712.M55
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond HM206.D48
Otherland (4 volume series) – Tad Williams PS3573 .I45563…
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach R853.H8R635
“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.”
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Great lists! I have a lot more reading to do. So many books, so little time………… Thanks to you, Julie, for a wonderful project.
By the way, Dr. Berch, thanks for including Night by Elie Wiesel. I forgot to include it in my list — a very important book.