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:
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
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
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 Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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
Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influences on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner
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.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
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
Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America by Jim Carnes, Herbert Tauss, and Harry A. Blackmun
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. |