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