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. Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  63. Get the Picture, by Bianca Bosker
  64. Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
  65. Glass Houses, by Louise Penny
  66. Half Broke Horses, by Jeannette Walls
  67. Hallelujah Anyway, by Anne Lamott
  68. Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
  69. Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
  70. Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance
  71. Horse, by Geraldine Brooks
  72. How the Light Gets In, by Louise Penny
  73. How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith
  74. How to Read a Book, by Monica Wood
  75. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, by Maggie O’Farrell
  76. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
  77. I Shall Not Hate, by Izzeldin Abuelaish
  78. I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, by Katie Porter
  79. In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson
  80. In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larson
  81. In the Woods, by Tana French
  82. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter
  83. Island: The Complete Stories, by Alistair MacLeod
  84. James, by Percival Everett
  85. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
  86. Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  87. Last Bus to Wisdom, by Ivan Doig
  88. Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Taylor Brown
  89. Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
  90. Little Wolves, by Thomas Maltman
  91. Love is My Favorite Flavor, by Wini Moranville
  92. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books, by Kirsten Miller
  93. March, by Geraldine Brooks
  94. Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
  95. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
  96. My Jesus Year: A Rabbi’s Son Wanders the Bible Belt in Search of His Own Faith, by Benyamin Cohen
  97. Near the Exit, by Lori Erickson
  98. Neighbors and Other Stories, by Diane Oliver
  99. News of the World, by Paulette Jiles
  100. On Trails, by Robert Moor
  101. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson
  102. Orange is the New Black, by Piper Kerman
  103. Ordinary Grace
  104. Our Souls at Night, by Kent Haruf
  105. Out of the Easy, by Ruta Sepetys
  106. Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
  107. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks
  108. Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
  109. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
  110. Plainsong, by Kent Haruf
  111. Poverty by America, by Matthew Desmond
  112. Prague Winter, by Madeleine Albright
  113. Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
  114. Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander
  115. Ragtime, by E. L. Dotorow
  116. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
  117. Rise: How a House Built a Family, by Cara Brookins
  118. River of the Gods, by Candice Millard
  119. Room, by Emma Donoghue
  120. Run, by Ann Patchett
  121. Sarum: the Novel of England, by Edward Rutherford
  122. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
  123. Say You’re One of Them, by Uwem Akpan
  124. Sea of Glory, by Nathaniel Philbrick
  125. Sense and Sensibility (The Austen Project #1), by Joanna Trollope
  126. She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb
  127. Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen
  128. Sky Bridge, by Laura Pritchett
  129. So Far Gone, by Jess Walter
  130. Solito, by Javier Zamora
  131. Songs of America, by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw
  132. South of Broad, by Pat Conroy
  133. Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
  134. Strength in What Remains, by Tracy Kidder
  135. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention — and How to Think Deeply Again, by Johann Hari
  136. Take This Bread, by Sara Miles
  137. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, by Gregory Boyle
  138. The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
  139. The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
  140. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  141. The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
  142. The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
  143. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown
  144. The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett, by Annie Lyons
  145. The Brothers Vonnegut, by Ginger Strand
  146. The Burgess Boys, by Elizabeth Strout
  147. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
  148. The Color of Water, by James McBride
  149. The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
  150. The Demon of Unrest, by Erik Larson
  151. The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson
  152. The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
  153. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
  154. The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe
  155. The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew, by Rayna Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Patricia Warner
  156. The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  157. The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
  158. The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
  159. The Grace of Silence: A Memoir, by Michele Norris
  160. The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai
  161. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer
  162. The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
  163. The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas
  164. The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
  165. The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
  166. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
  167. The Invention of Wings, by Sue Monk Kidd
  168. The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende
  169. The Kitchen Boy, by Robert Alexander
  170. The Language of Flowers, by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  171. The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch
  172. The Last Lifeboat, by Hazel Gaynor
  173. The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
  174. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
  175. The Light Between Oceans, by M. L. Stedman
  176. The Magician’s Assistant, by Ann Patchett
  177. The Map that Changed the World, by Simon Winchester
  178. The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
  179. The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
  180. The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
  181. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writer’s Life, by Amy Tan
  182. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  183. The Path Between the Seas, by David McCulough
  184. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
  185. The Promise by Chaim Potok
  186. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
  187. The Road from Coorain, by Jill Ker Conway
  188. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
  189. The Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
  190. The Serviceberry, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  191. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, by Peter Frankopan
  192. The Songcatcher, by Sharyn McCrumb
  193. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  194. The Source, by James Michener
  195. The Sweetness of Water, by Nathan Harris
  196. The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman
  197. The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers, by Zeke Hernandez
  198. The Underneath, by Kathi Appelt
  199. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, by Rachel Joyce
  200. The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
  201. The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy
  202. The Waters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
  203. The Weight of Ink, by Rachel Kadish
  204. The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, by Thomas Friedman
  205. The Wright Brothers, by David McCulough
  206. The Year of Magical Thinking, by John Didion
  207. The Year We Left Home, by Jean Thompson
  208. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
  209. These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, by Nancy E. Turner
  210. Train to Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation, by Colleen Krantz
  211. Traveling Mercies, by Anne Lamott
  212. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall, by Helena Merriman
  213. Twelve Post-War Tales, by Graham Swift
  214. Virgil Wander, by Leif Enger
  215. Walden on Wheels, by Ken Ilgunas
  216. Walk in a Relaxed Manner, by Joyce Rupp
  217. Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
  218. West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
  219. What We Talk About When We Talk About God, by Rob Bell
  220. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
  221. Who Ate the First Oyster? by Cody Cassidy
  222. You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, by Heather Sellers
  223. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan