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 Terrible Country, by Keith Gessen
  9. A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman
  10. Absolution, by Alice McDermott
  11. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
  12. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence, by Zeinab Badawi
  13. An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith, by Barbara Brown Taylor
  14. An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
  15. An Invisible Thread, by Laura Schroff
  16. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver
  17. Awakenings, by Oliver Sacks
  18. Becoming, by Michelle Obama
  19. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate
  20. Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
  21. Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande
  22. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
  23. Between the World and Me, by Ta Nehisi Coates
  24. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxas
  25. Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  26. Braving the Wilderness, by Brené Brown
  27. Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler
  28. Burn Scars, by Patricia Prijatel
  29. Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny
  30. Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted, by Daniel Sokatch
  31. Candide, by Voltaire
  32. Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson
  33. Chameleon Days, by Tim Bascom
  34. Changing the Conversation, by Anthony Robinson
  35. Classic Restaurants of Des Moines and Their Recipes, by Darcy Dougherty-Maulsby
  36. Climbing Lessons, by Tim Bascom
  37. Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner
  38. Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
  39. Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
  40. Dead Wake, by Erik Larson
  41. Dear and Glorious Physician, by Taylor Caldwell
  42. Dear Life: Stories, by Alice Munro
  43. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
  44. Death Comes to Pemberley, by P.D. James
  45. Defending Jacob, by William Landay
  46. Democracy Awakening, by Heather Cox Richardson
  47. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
  48. Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard
  49. Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  50. Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
  51. Doppelganger, by Naomi Klein
  52. Dune, by Frank Herbert
  53. Educated, by Tara Westover
  54. Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
  55. Evolution of the Word, by Marcus Borg
  56. Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
  57. Excellent Women, by Barbara Pym
  58. Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver
  59. Foolish Church, by Lee Roorda Schott
  60. Forget Me Not Blue, by Sharelle Byars Moranville
  61. Founding Brothers, by Joseph Ellis
  62. Founding Mothers, by Cokie Roberts
  63. Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  64. Get the Picture, by Bianca Bosker
  65. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
  66. Glass Houses, by Louise Penny
  67. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
  68. Hallelujah Anyway, by Anne Lamott
  69. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
  70. Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
  71. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
  72. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
  73. How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
  74. How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith
  75. How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
  76. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O’Farrell
  77. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  78. I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish
  79. I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, by Katie Porter
  80. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
  81. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
  82. In the Woods, by Tana French
  83. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter
  84. Island: The Complete Stories, by Alistair MacLeod
  85. James, by Percival Everett
  86. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
  87. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  88. Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
  89. Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Taylor Brown
  90. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  91. Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman
  92. Love is My Favorite Flavor, by Wini Moranville
  93. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books, by Kirsten Miller
  94. March, by Geraldine Brooks
  95. Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
  96. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
  97. My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, by Benyamin Cohen
  98. Near the Exit, by Lori Erickson
  99. Neighbors and Other Stories, by Diane Oliver
  100. News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
  101. On Trails, by Robert Moor
  102. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson
  103. Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
  104. Ordinary Grace
  105. Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
  106. Out of the Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
  107. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
  108. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
  109. Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
  110. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
  111. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
  112. Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond
  113. Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright
  114. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
  115. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander
  116. Ragtime, by E. L. Dotorow
  117. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  118. Rise: How a House Built a Family, by Cara Brookins
  119. River of the Gods, by Candice Millard
  120. Room, by Emma Donoghue
  121. Run, by Ann Patchett
  122. Sarum: the Novel of England, by Edward Rutherford
  123. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
  124. Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
  125. Sea of Glory, by Nathaniel Philbrick
  126. Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1), by Joanna Trollope
  127. She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb
  128. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen
  129. Sky Bridge, by Laura Pritchett
  130. So Far Gone, by Jess Walter
  131. Solito, by Javier Zamora
  132. Songs of America, by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
  133. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
  134. Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
  135. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder
  136. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari
  137. Take This Bread, by Sara Miles
  138. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle
  139. The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  140. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
  141. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  142. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
  143. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
  144. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
  145. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, by Annie Lyons
  146. The Brothers Vonnegut, by Ginger Strand
  147. The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout
  148. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  149. The Color of Water, by James McBride
  150. The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
  151. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
  152. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  153. The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
  154. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  155. The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe
  156. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew, by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Patricia Warner
  157. The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  158. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
  159. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
  160. The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, by Michele Norris
  161. The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai
  162. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
  163. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
  164. The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas
  165. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  166. The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
  167. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
  168. The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
  169. The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
  170. The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander
  171. The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  172. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
  173. The Last Lifeboat, by Hazel Gaynor
  174. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
  175. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
  176. The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman
  177. The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett
  178. The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester
  179. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
  180. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
  181. The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
  182. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writer’s Life, by Amy Tan
  183. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  184. The Path Between the Seas, by David McCulough
  185. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
  186. The Promise by Chaim Potok
  187. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
  188. The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
  189. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
  190. The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
  191. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  192. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan
  193. The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
  194. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  195. The Source, by James Michener
  196. The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris
  197. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
  198. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers, by Zeke Hernandez
  199. The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt
  200. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
  201. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
  202. The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy
  203. The Waters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
  204. The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
  205. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, by Thomas Friedman
  206. The Wright Brothers, by David McCulough
  207. The Year of Magical Thinking, by John Didion
  208. The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
  209. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
  210. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, by Nancy E. Turner
  211. Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation, by Colleen Krantz
  212. Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
  213. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall, by Helena Merriman
  214. Twelve Post-War Tales, by Graham Swift
  215. Virgil Wander, by Leif Enger
  216. Walden on Wheels, by Ken Ilgunas
  217. Walk in a Relaxed Manner, by Joyce Rupp
  218. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  219. West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
  220. What We Talk About When We Talk About God, by Rob Bell
  221. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
  222. Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy
  223. You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, by Heather Sellers
  224. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan