Recommended Reading

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• A brief history of seven killings : a novel
  PR9265.9.J358 B75 2014
  James, Marlon
• A guide to Civil War Washington, D.C. : the capital of the union
  E501 .J36 2013
  Janke, Lucinda Prout.
• A handful of dust
  PR6045.A97 H3 1977
  Waugh, Evelyn
• A manual for cleaning women : selected stories
  PS3552.E72485 A6 2015
  Berlin, Lucia
• A strange and fearful interest : death, mourning, and memory in the American Civil War
  E468.9 .W338 2015
  Watts, Jennifer A.
• A visitation of God : northern civilians interpret the Civil War
  E635 .S36 2011
  Scott, Sean A.
• Apologia pro vita sua and six sermons
  BX4705.N5 A3 2008
  Newman, John Henry
• Awaiting the heavenly country : the Civil War and America's culture of death
  E468.9 .S33 2008
  Schantz, Mark S. 1955- (Mark Saunders)
• Awakening to prayer
  BV210.2 .O35813 1994
  Okumura, Augustine Ichiro
• Charming Billy
  PS3563.C355 C48 1998
  McDermott, Alice.
• CivilWarLand in bad decline : stories and a novella
  PS3569.A7897 C58 1997
  Saunders, George
• Continuing bonds with the dead : parental grief and nineteenth-century American authors
  PS217.D43 B87 2016
  Bush, Harold K. 1956- author. (Harold Karl)
• Daily life in Civil War America
  E468.9 .V6 1998
  Volo, Dorothy Denneen
• Disgrace
  PR9369.3.C58 D5 2000
  Coetzee, J. M.
• Fire and water : basic issues in Asian Buddhism and Christianity
  BX1615 .P54 1996
  Pieris, Aloysius.
• George Saunders' Pastoralia
  PS3569.A7897 P374 2017
  Holdefer, Charles
• Heaven can wait : Purgatory in Catholic devotional and popular culture
  BT843 .P37 2015
  Pasulka, Diana Walsh
• House of names : a novel
  PR6070.O455 H68 2017
  Tóibín, Colm
• In persuasion nation
  PS3569.A7897 I5 2006
  Saunders, George
• Let's explore diabetes with owls
  PS3569.E314 L38 2013
  Sedaris, David.
• Life of Pi : a novel
  PR9199.3.M3855 L54 2001
  Martel, Yann.
• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation : the end of slavery in America
  E453 .G9 2004
  Guelzo, Allen C.
• Lincoln's other White House
  E457.64 .B76 2005
  Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith
• Lincoln's sanctuary : Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home
  E457.64 .P56 2003
  Pinsker, Matthew
• Loitering with intent
  PR6037.P29 L6 1981
  Spark, Muriel.
• Looking for Lincoln : the making of an American icon
  E457.2 .K86 2008
  Kunhardt, Philip B.
• Midnight's children
  PR6068.U757 M5 1995
  Rushdie, Salman.
• Moonglow : a novel
  PS3553.H15 M96 2016
  Chabon, Michael

• Pastoralia : stories
  PS3569.A7897 E53 2001
  Saunders, George
• Patriotic gore; studies in the literature of the American Civil War.
  PS211 .W5
  Wilson, Edmund
• Poetry and prose
  PR4803.H44 A13 1998
  Hopkins, Gerard Manley
• Power and the Glory
  PR6013.R44 P6 2015
  Greene, Graham
• Resurrection
  PG3366 .V7 2009
  Tolstoy, Leo
• Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865
  E501 .L4 2011
  Leech, Margaret
• Six encounters with Lincoln : a president confronts democracy and its demons
  E457.15 .P93 2017
  Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
• Swing time
  PR6069.M59 S95 2016
  Smith, Zadie
• Tenth of December : stories
  PS3569.A7897 T46 2013
  Saunders, George
• The Elizabeth Keckley reader
  E457.2.K39 E45 2016
• The Everyman Chesterton
  PR4453.C4 A6 2011
  Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936. (Gilbert Keith)
• The abundance : narrative essays old and new
  PS3554.I398 A6 2016
  Dillard, Annie
• The argonauts
  PS3564.E4687 Z46 2015
  Nelson, Maggie
• The attention merchants : the epic scramble to get inside our heads
  HF5811 .W82 2016
  Wu, Tim
• The blind assassin
  PR9199.3.A8 B55 2001
  Atwood, Margaret
• The braindead megaphone : essays
  PS3569.A7897 B73 2007
  Saunders, George
• The brief and frightening reign of Phil
  PS3569.A7897 B75 2005
  Saunders, George
• The difference heaven makes : rehearing the Gospel as news
  BT846.3 .M69 2010
  Morse, Christopher (Christopher L.)
• The gathering
  PR6055.N73 G38 2007
  Enright, Anne
• The inheritance of loss
  PS3554.E82 I54 2006
  Desai, Kiran
• The remains of the day
  PR6059.S5 R46 1990
  Ishiguro, Kazuo
• The second coming
  PS3566.E6912 S5
  Percy, Walker
• The sellout
  PS3552.E19 S45 2015
  Beatty, Paul
• The true Mary Todd Lincoln : a biography
  E457.25.L55 E45 2014
  Ellison, Betty Boles
• We have always lived in the castle
  PS3519.A392 W4 2016
  Jackson, Shirley
• Weirding the war : stories from the Civil War's ragged edges
  E468.9 .W44 2011
• Words without music : a memoir
  ML410.G398 A3 2015
  Glass, Philip
• Zen Catholicism : a suggestion
  261.243927 G76, Z4
  Graham, Aelred
• Zen spirit, Christian spirit : the place of Zen in Christian life
  261.243927 K386, Z4
  Kennedy, Robert E.