Books We’ve Read

  1. 1984, by George Orwell
  2. 27 Magic Words, by Sharelle Moranville
  3. A Call to Action, by Jimmy Carter
  4. A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
  5. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
  6. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggars
  7. A Land More Kind Than Home, by Wiley Cash
  8. A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman
  9. Absolution, by Alice McDermott
  10. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
  11. An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor
  12. An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
  13. An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff
  14. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
  15. Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks
  16. Becoming, by Michelle Obama
  17. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate
  18. Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
  19. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
  20. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
  21. Between the World and Me, by Ta Nehisi Coates
  22. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas
  23. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  24. Braving the Wilderness, by Brené Brown
  25. Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
  26. Burn Scars, by Patricia Prijatel
  27. Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny
  28. Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted, by Daniel Sokatch
  29. Candide, by Voltaire
  30. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
  31. Chameleon Days, by Tim Bascom
  32. Changing the Conversation, by Anthony Robinson
  33. Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and Their Recipes, by Darcy Dougherty-Maulsby
  34. Climbing Lessons, by Tim Bascom
  35. Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
  36. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
  37. Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
  38. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson
  39. Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell
  40. Dear Life: Stories, by Alice Munro
  41. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
  42. Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James
  43. Defending Jacob, by William Landay
  44. Democracy Awakening, by Heather Cox Richardson
  45. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
  46. Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard
  47. Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  48. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
  49. Doppelganger, by Naomi Klein
  50. Dune, by Frank Herbert
  51. Educated, by Tara Westover
  52. Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
  53. Evolution of the Word, by Marcus Borg
  54. Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
  55. Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
  56. Foolish Church, by Lee Roorda Schott
  57. Forget Me Not Blue, by Sharelle Byars Moranville
  58. Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis
  59. Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts
  60. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
  61. Glass Houses, by Louise Penny
  62. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
  63. Hallelujah Anyway, by Anne Lamott
  64. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
  65. Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
  66. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
  67. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
  68. How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
  69. How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith
  70. How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
  71. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O’Farrell
  72. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  73. I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish
  74. I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, by Katie Porter
  75. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
  76. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
  77. In the Woods, by Tana French
  78. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter
  79. Island: The Complete Stories, by Alistair MacLeod
  80. James, by Percival Everett
  81. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
  82. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  83. Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
  84. Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Taylor Brown
  85. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  86. Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman
  87. Love is My Favorite Flavor, by Wini Moranville
  88. March, by Geraldine Brooks
  89. Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
  90. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
  91. My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, by Benyamin Cohen
  92. Near the Exit, by Lori Erickson
  93. Neighbors and Other Stories, by Diane Oliver
  94. News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
  95. On Trails, by Robert Moor
  96. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson
  97. Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
  98. Ordinary Grace
  99. Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
  100. Out of the Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
  101. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
  102. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
  103. Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
  104. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
  105. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
  106. Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond
  107. Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright
  108. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
  109. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander
  110. Ragtime, by E. L. Dotorow
  111. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  112. Rise: How a House Built a Family, by Cara Brookins
  113. River of the Gods, by Candice Millard
  114. Room, by Emma Donoghue
  115. Run, by Ann Patchett
  116. Sarum: the Novel of England, by Edward Rutherford
  117. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
  118. Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
  119. Sea of Glory, by Nathaniel Philbrick
  120. Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1), by Joanna Trollope
  121. She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb
  122. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen
  123. Sky Bridge, by Laura Pritchett
  124. Solito, by Javier Zamora
  125. Songs of America, by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
  126. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
  127. Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
  128. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder
  129. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari
  130. Take This Bread, by Sara Miles
  131. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle
  132. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
  133. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  134. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
  135. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
  136. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
  137. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, by Annie Lyons
  138. The Brothers Vonnegut, by Ginger Strand
  139. The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout
  140. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  141. The Color of Water, by James McBride
  142. The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
  143. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
  144. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  145. The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
  146. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  147. The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe
  148. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew, by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Patricia Warner
  149. The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  150. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
  151. The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, by Michele Norris
  152. The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai
  153. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
  154. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
  155. The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas
  156. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  157. The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
  158. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
  159. The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
  160. The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
  161. The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander
  162. The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  163. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
  164. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
  165. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
  166. The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman
  167. The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett
  168. The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester
  169. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
  170. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
  171. The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
  172. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writer’s Life, by Amy Tan
  173. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  174. The Path Between the Seas, by David McCulough
  175. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
  176. The Promise by Chaim Potok
  177. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
  178. The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
  179. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
  180. The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
  181. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  182. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan
  183. The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
  184. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  185. The Source, by James Michener
  186. The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris
  187. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
  188. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers, by Zeke Hernandez
  189. The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt
  190. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
  191. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
  192. The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy
  193. The Waters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
  194. The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
  195. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, by Thomas Friedman
  196. The Wright Brothers, by David McCulough
  197. The Year of Magical Thinking, by John Didion
  198. The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
  199. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
  200. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, by Nancy E. Turner
  201. Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation, by Colleen Krantz
  202. Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
  203. Virgil Wander, by Leif Enger
  204. Walden on Wheels, by Ken Ilgunas
  205. Walk in a Relaxed Manner, by Joyce Rupp
  206. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  207. West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
  208. What We Talk About When We Talk About God, by Rob Bell
  209. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
  210. Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy
  211. You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, by Heather Sellers
  212. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan