“We are heavily into ‘boy’ books,” she said. “We don’t apologize for this. We’ve got to keep our audience interested.” We expect the students to have finished the first book by the first of September.”Ĭriteria for considering books are, as Gowen puts it, “when they meet a delicate balance of interest level for the boys and value as a piece of literature.”
“This shows students Catholic High values reading and that we are serious about academics from the first day they set foot on campus. “We give each student his first book of the year at registration,” Gowen said of the 2009 book. (Moran’s novel, “Jesse Crosse,” was published in 2011 and added to the sophomore reading list.) Incoming classes are more than aware of the list by the time they report for freshman year, seeing as how the first of its 32 titles, Moran’s “Proudly We Speak Your Name,” is assigned in the intervening summer between eighth and ninth grade. “It goes back to the late 1950s at least,” he said. Moran, who cultivated the list for 41 years before that, can’t pinpoint its genesis, either. No one can remember precisely when the list got started including Gowen, whose reign as department chair followed Mike Moran’s retirement in 2008. “Books start fairly easy and then become more challenging.” “First and foremost, the list gets the boys interested in reading,” said Gretchen Gowen, department head and a member of Our Lady of the Holy Souls Church in Little Rock. It’s a heady dose of literature for each year’s student body, capably shepherded by generations of the English department. “Much Ado About Nothing” by William ShakespeareĪmong the many traditions driving life at Catholic High School in Little Rock is “the list” - the roster of books each student must complete. “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain “Bulfinch’s Mythology” by Thomas Bulfinch “Murder on the Orient Express” by Agatha Christie “Bless the Beasts and the Children” by Glendon Swarthout
“The Lord of the Flies” by William Golding “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie “Proudly We Speak Your Name” by Mike Moran His books have sold more than 5 million copies in the United States alone.How many of these works from the 2012-2013 list have you read? If you graduated from Catholic High School, it’s safe to say your answer is “most of them.” Or my great strength."Ĭonroy's other books include "The Boo," "The Water is Wide," "The Lords of Discipline," "Beach Music," "The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life," "South of Broad" and "My Reading Life." In another memoir "The Death of Santini," he examined his difficult relationship with his father, and told "GMA" anchor Charlie Gibson that his focus on the family he grew up in "might be my great weakness as a writer. Being part of a dysfunctional team, he recalled, was a welcome respite from The Citadel's typical plebe-system routine.
In an interview on " Good Morning America" when the book came out, Conroy said he remembers his team's losing season as the happiest year of his life. Like "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides," most of Conroy's 11 books have been novels, many closely or loosely based on his own life, but he also wrote the memoir " My Losing Season," in which he revisited his basketball team's losing season (1966-67) at The Citadel, a military college in Charleston, S.C. Pat and his family are enormously grateful to all of his readers for their prayers and good wishes.“ "The Conroy family asks for privacy at this time as Pat fights this challenging illness with the same spirit of courage that has forged his writing career. Anderson, where he is receiving excellent care and support from his doctors," Doubleday publishers said in a statement. "Pat is currently undergoing treatment at M.D. — - Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of "The Prince of Tides" and "The Great Santini," has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his publisher said today.
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