Book Suggestions
Following are the books that members of our group have suggested as possible future reads:
Title Author
Beatrice and Virgil Yann Martel
Becoming Chloe Catherine Ryan Hyde
Blood Brothers Elias Chacour
Daughter of Fortune Isabel Illende
Ester Chuck Swindoll
Fighting For Dear Life: The Untold Story
of Terry Schiavo David Gibbs and Bob De Moss
Gang Leader for a Day Sudhir Venkatesh
Girl Mary: A novel Petru Propescu
Grapes of Wrath John Steinback
In His Steps Charles M. Sheldon
Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Alo
Ladder of Years Anne Tyler
Let The Great World Spin Colun Mc Cann
Longings of Women Marge Piercy
Lying Awake Mark Salzman
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor Don and Susie Van Ryn & Newell, Colleen, and Whitney Cerak
Mudhouse Sabbath Lauren Winner
Noah’s Compass Anne Tyler
Not on Our Watch John Prendergast and Don Cheadle
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
One Amazing Thing Chitra Banerjee Divakuruni
Paint it Black Janet Finch
Peace Like a River Leif Enger
Plain Truth Jodi Piccoult
Sara’s Key Tatiana de Rosnay
She Got Up off The Couch Haven Kimmel
Someone Knows My Name Lawrence Hill
Terri: The Truth Michael Schiavo
The Air We Breathe Andra Barrett
The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz
The Friendship Cake Lynne Hinton
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Steig Larsson
The Heretics Daughter Kathleen Kent
The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
The Last Lecture Randy Pausch
The Last Station Jay Parini
The Last Town On Earth Thomas Mullen
The Lemon Tree Sandy Tolan
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards
The Story of Edward Sawtell David Wroblewski
Thirteen Moons Charles Frazier
Undress Me in The Temple of Heaven Susan Jan Gilman
What difference do it Make Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent
What is the What Dave Eggers
Wild Swans Jung Chang
World Without End Ken Follett
Feel free to add to this list.
The next book choice is “Same Kind of Different as Me” by Ron Hall.
We are currently reading Anne Lamott’s “Traveling Mercies”, orginally published in 1999. This is the first book of Lamott’s that I have read. She writes from a very deep personal place. Anne has a very muddied background. She still lives in California and at the time of the writing, was attending a Presbyterian Church. I love how her faith has developed over time. She never takes it for granted. She seems like your next door neighbor, single mom, raising her son and trying to make a living writing, which she is quite good at too. I’m having trouble putting the book down and I’m glad that it is short (less than 300 pages). For those of you who know me, long books just don’t hold my interest. I have to admit that by the time I finish, I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read.
Feel free to write back and hassle me about my forgetfulness.