Fr. William B. Neenan’s Dean’s List: 1982-2004
Years on the list
1. James Agee, A Death in the Family
1984-
2. Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
1996
3. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
1982-
4. Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace
1993-1999
5. Andrea Barrett, The Voyage of the Narwhal
2000
6. Robert N. Bellah and colleagues, Habits of the Heart
1985-1991
7. Peter Berger, Rumor of Angels
1982-1983
8. George Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest
1982-
9. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, The Gift of Peace
1997
10. Ben Birnbaum, “How to Pray: Reverence, Stories, And the Rebbe’s Dream” in Kathleen Norris (ed. ) The Best American Essays
2001-2002
11. Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind
1987
12. Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
1982-
13. Tom Brokaw, The Greatest Generation
1999
14. Frederick Buechner, Godric
1984
15. Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
1991-93
16. Albert Camus, The Fall
1982-
17. Ethan Canin, Emperor of the Air
1994-1995
18. Evan S. Connell, Son of the Morning Star
1985
19. Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
1990-1991
20. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1986-1989
21. Annie Dillard, The Living
1992
22. Charles F. Donovan, SJ, History of Boston College
1990-1993
23. Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope
1984-1985
24. Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own
2004
25. Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man
1982-1997
26. Shusako Endo, Deep River
1995-1997
27. Shusako Endo, Silence
1982-1994
28. Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris
2001
29. David Hackett Fischer, Paul Revere’s Ride
1995
30. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
1982-
31. Thomas Flanagan, The End of the Hunt
1994
32. Thomas Flanagan, Tenants of Time
1988
33. Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French
1982-1986
34. Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots
1982-1985
35. William Golding, Lord of the Flies
1983-1990
36. Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon
2002
37. Mary Gordon, Final Payments
1982-1989
38. Thomas Grady and Paula Huston (eds.), Signatures of Grace: Catholic Writers on the Sacraments
2000-2001
39. Elizabeth Graver, Unravelling
1998
40. Elizabeth Graver, The Honey Thief
2000
41. Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
2000-
42. Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
1982-1999
43. Thomas Groome, What Makes Us Catholic
2002
44. David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
1996
45. Ron Hansen, Atticus
1997-1998
46. Michael Harrington, The Other America
1982-1986
47. Seamus Heaney, Beowulf
2000-
48. Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
2003
49. Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
1990-
50. James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1982-2000
51. Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm
1998-2003
52. John Keegan, Face of Battle
1982-1995
53. Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days
1986
54. Thomas Keneally, Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
1982-1983
55. Thomas Keneally, The Confederates
1984
56. William Kennedy, Ironweed
1985-1987
57. Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
2004
58. Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees
1991-1995
59. Milan Kundera, Immortality
1995-1996
60. Milan Kundera, The Joke
1991
61. Florence Ladd, Sarah’s Psalm
1999
62. Guiseppe Lampedusa, The Leopard
1982-1997
63. H. C. Robbins Landon, 1791; Mozart’s Last Year
1991
64. Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
1987
65. William Leonard, SJ, The Letter Carrier
1993
66. William J. Leonard, SJ, Where Thousands Fell
1995
67. Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam
2003
68. Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
1993
69. Anthony J. Lucas, Common Ground
1986
70. Paul Mariani, Thirty Days
2002
71. Yann Martel, Life of Pi
2003
72. Suzanne Matson, The Hunger Moon
1998
73. Suzanne Matson, A Trick of Nature
2001
74. Francois Mauriac, Viper’s Tangle
1982
75. Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
1994
76. Eugene McCarthy, Up ’Til Now
1987
77. Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
1997-1998
78. David McCullough, John Adams
2002
79. David McCullough, Truman
1993-
80. Alice McDermott, At Weddings and Wakes
1993-1994
81. Alice McDermott, Charming Billy
1999-2000
82. Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart
2003-
83. James M. McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom
1989
84. Charles Morris, American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church
1999-
85. Gloria Naylor, Women of Brewster Place
1994-1999
86. Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son
1998-
87. Christopher Nolan, Under the Eye of the Clock
1988
88. Thomas O’Connor, The Boston Irish
1996-1997
89. Thomas O’Connor, Civil War Boston
1998
90. Thomas O’Connor, The Hub: Boston Past and Present
2001
91. John O’Malley, SJ, The First Jesuits
1994-
92. Thomas P. O’Neill, Man of the House
1988-91
93. Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries
1987-
94. Ann Petry, The Street
1996-2000
95. J. P. Powers, Morte d’Urban
1982-1984
96. J. P. Powers, Wheat that Springeth Green
1989-1990
97. Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
1997-1999
98. O. E. Rolvaag, Giants in the Earth
1982-1983
99. Colin A. Ronan, The Natural History of the Universe
1992
100. Simon Schama, Citizens
1989
101. Nancy Lusignan Schulz, Fire and Roses
2001
102. Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
1999-
103. Hampton Sides, Ghost Soldiers
2003
104. Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine
1983-92
105. Dava Sobel, Galileo’s Daughter
2001-
106. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
1982-1988
107. Wallace Stegner, Collected Short Stories
1990-
108. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
1989
109. Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
1992
110. Peter Steinfels, A People Adrift
2004
111. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
1990
112. R. H. Tawney, Religion and Rise of Capitalism
1982-1983
113. Studs Terkel, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
1992
114. Christopher Tilghman, In a Father’s Place
1992-1993
115. Sigrid Undset, Gunnar’s Daughter
1989
116. Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter
1982-1988, 1990-
117. Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men
1982-
118. Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book
1996
119. Garry Wills, Saint Augustine
2000-
120. Simon Winchester, River at the Center of the World
1997-
121. Jay Winik, April 1865, The Month that Saved America
2004
122. Alan Wolfe, The Transformation of American Religion
2004
123. Tom Wolfe, Bonfire of the Vanities
1988
124. Cecil Woodham-Smith, The Great Hunger
1982-1990
125. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
1982-1996
