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