What an amazing list of interesting books the Book Club has read over the years. You might want to add these to your personal reading list:
Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
Audacity of Hope by Barak Obama
A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity by Jan Egeland
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey by Leila Ahmed
Censoring an Iranian Love Story: A Novel by Shahriar Mandanipour
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Encountering God by Diana Eck
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
Founding Faith by Steven Waldman
The Good Heart: a Buddhist Perspective on the teachings of Jesus by the Dalai Lama
The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism by Ravi Ravindra
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: a Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear , edited by Paul Rogat Loeb
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World by Bob Abernathy and William Bole (eds.)
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics by Jennifer Heath (ed.)
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeen Aslam
Nickel and Dimed: on Not Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
North Star Conspiracy by Miriam Grace Mondfredo (from Rochester, NY)
Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer
Poetry by Mary Oliver
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influences on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett
Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal.
The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Sister Joan Chittister, and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti
Terrorist by John Updike
Terrorist Hunter (anonymous)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics by Jennifer Heath (ed.)
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
We Are the Ones We have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker (essays/meditations)
Welcome to the Wisdom of the World by Joan Chittister
What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right With America, by Imam Rauf
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media by Susan J. Douglas
Why Are Our Babies Dying by Sandra Lane
