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