As part of Byron Borger’s lecture on Thursday, November 9, he mentioned, quoted, or read from a variety of literature, all of which he recommended to the audience as “good books.” Here are his book recommendations in no particular order:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
- The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Being Home by Padraig O’Touma [forthcoming]
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish by C. Christopher Smith
- Experiments in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
- Dopesick by Joanna Macey
- Evicted by Matthew Desmond
- A Day in the Life of Abed Salmara by Nathan Thrall
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Nourishing Narratives by Jennifer Holberg
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Gutenberg Elegies by Sven Berkerts
- Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
- Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf
- Alone Together by Nicholas Carr
- Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
- How Dante Can Save Your Life by Rod Dreher
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
- The Word by Marita Golden
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
- Reconciliation in a Michigan Watershed by Gail Gunst Heffner & David Warner [forthcoming]
- Altars in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Steeped in Stories by Mitali Perkins
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
- Secrets in the Dark by Frederick Buechner (foreword by Brian McLaren.)
- Tales of Faith by Holly Ordway
- Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Neyeri
- Subversive Spirituality by Eugene Peterson
- Where the Waves Turn Back: A Forty-Day Pilgrimage Along the California Coast by Tyson Motsenbocker
Enjoy your reading!