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. Get the Picture, by Bianca Bosker
  61. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
  62. Glass Houses, by Louise Penny
  63. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
  64. Hallelujah Anyway, by Anne Lamott
  65. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
  66. Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
  67. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
  68. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
  69. How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
  70. How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith
  71. How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
  72. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O’Farrell
  73. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  74. I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish
  75. I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, by Katie Porter
  76. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
  77. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
  78. In the Woods, by Tana French
  79. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter
  80. Island: The Complete Stories, by Alistair MacLeod
  81. James, by Percival Everett
  82. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
  83. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  84. Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
  85. Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Taylor Brown
  86. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  87. Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman
  88. Love is My Favorite Flavor, by Wini Moranville
  89. March, by Geraldine Brooks
  90. Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
  91. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
  92. My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, by Benyamin Cohen
  93. Near the Exit, by Lori Erickson
  94. Neighbors and Other Stories, by Diane Oliver
  95. News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
  96. On Trails, by Robert Moor
  97. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson
  98. Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
  99. Ordinary Grace
  100. Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
  101. Out of the Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
  102. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
  103. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
  104. Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
  105. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
  106. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
  107. Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond
  108. Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright
  109. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
  110. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander
  111. Ragtime, by E. L. Dotorow
  112. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  113. Rise: How a House Built a Family, by Cara Brookins
  114. River of the Gods, by Candice Millard
  115. Room, by Emma Donoghue
  116. Run, by Ann Patchett
  117. Sarum: the Novel of England, by Edward Rutherford
  118. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
  119. Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
  120. Sea of Glory, by Nathaniel Philbrick
  121. Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1), by Joanna Trollope
  122. She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb
  123. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen
  124. Sky Bridge, by Laura Pritchett
  125. Solito, by Javier Zamora
  126. Songs of America, by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
  127. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
  128. Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
  129. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder
  130. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari
  131. Take This Bread, by Sara Miles
  132. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle
  133. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
  134. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  135. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
  136. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
  137. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
  138. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, by Annie Lyons
  139. The Brothers Vonnegut, by Ginger Strand
  140. The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout
  141. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  142. The Color of Water, by James McBride
  143. The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
  144. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
  145. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  146. The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
  147. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  148. The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe
  149. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew, by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Patricia Warner
  150. The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  151. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
  152. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
  153. The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, by Michele Norris
  154. The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai
  155. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
  156. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
  157. The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas
  158. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  159. The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
  160. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
  161. The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
  162. The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
  163. The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander
  164. The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  165. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
  166. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
  167. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
  168. The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman
  169. The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett
  170. The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester
  171. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
  172. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
  173. The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
  174. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writer’s Life, by Amy Tan
  175. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  176. The Path Between the Seas, by David McCulough
  177. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
  178. The Promise by Chaim Potok
  179. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
  180. The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
  181. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
  182. The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
  183. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  184. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan
  185. The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
  186. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  187. The Source, by James Michener
  188. The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris
  189. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
  190. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers, by Zeke Hernandez
  191. The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt
  192. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
  193. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
  194. The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy
  195. The Waters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
  196. The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
  197. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, by Thomas Friedman
  198. The Wright Brothers, by David McCulough
  199. The Year of Magical Thinking, by John Didion
  200. The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
  201. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
  202. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, by Nancy E. Turner
  203. Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation, by Colleen Krantz
  204. Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
  205. Virgil Wander, by Leif Enger
  206. Walden on Wheels, by Ken Ilgunas
  207. Walk in a Relaxed Manner, by Joyce Rupp
  208. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  209. West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
  210. What We Talk About When We Talk About God, by Rob Bell
  211. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
  212. Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy
  213. You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, by Heather Sellers
  214. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan