Book Club List

Here is the list of books that our book club has read:

2007

Listening For God – Ed. by Paula J. Carlson & Peter S. Hawkins
Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
Before I Wake – Robert J. Wiersema
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

2008

The Roadmender – Michael Fairless
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
Catherine, Called Birdy – Karen Cushman
The Shack – William P. Young
Becoming Human – Jean Vanier
Race Against Time – Stephen Lewis
Duet for Wings and Earth – Barbara Colebrook Peace

2009

Pope Joan – Donna Woolfolk Cross
Year of Wonders – Geraldine Brooks
Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt – Anne Rice
The Soul of the Night – Chet Raymo
A Man Called Peter – Catherine Marshall
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks

2010

Orthodoxy – G. K. Chesterton
The Everlasting Man – G. K. Chesterton
Out of the Silent Planet – C. S. Lewis
Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
The Heretic’s Apprentice – Ellis Peters
What’s Bred in the Bone – Robertson Davies

2011

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
My Name is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
The Screwtape Letters – C. S. Lewis
A History of God – Karen Armstrong

2012

Heaven Is For Real – Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent
The Reason For God – Timothy Keller
Rumors of Another World – Philip Yancey
Letters To God – Patrick Doughtie & John Perry
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction – Eugene Peterson
The Traveler’s Gift – Andy Andrews
The Dog That Talked to God – Jim Kraus

2013

The Boy Who Met Jesus: Segatashya of Kibeho – Immaculée Ilibagiza
Come Be My Light – Mother Teresa
Heresy – Michael Coren
Scars – Patience Prence
Introducing the Missional Church – Alan J. Roxburgh & M. Scott Boren
Sounding the Seasons – Malcolm Guite
Walking the Bible – Bruce Feiler
Practicing the Presence of God – Brother Lawrence

2014

The Scapegoat – Rene Girard
The Horse and His Boy – C. S. Lewis
Our Witchdoctors are Too Weak – Davey & Maria Jank
The Pilgrim’s Regress – C. S. Lewis
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
The First Phone Call From Heaven – Mitch Albom
On Heaven and Earth – Jorge Mario Bergoglio & Abraham Skorka
The Christmas Cantata – Mark Schweizer

2015

The Great Divorce – C. S. Lewis
Falling Upward – Richard Rohr
Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John – Jean Vanier
Jack’s Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis – Douglas Gresham
The Harbinger – Jonathan Cahn
Finishing Our Course With Joy – J. I. Packer
Wonderful Fool – Shusaku Endo
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Barbara Robinson

 2016

The End of Your Life Book Club – Will Schwalbe
Same Kind of Different As Me – Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
The Book of Forgiving – Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
What Money Can’t Buy – Michael J. Sandel
Murder in the Cathedral – T. S. Eliot
At the Back of the North Wind – George MacDonald
The Grand Weaver – Ravi Zacharias
Twenty-one Candles – Mike Mason

 2017

The Gifts of the Small Church – Jason Byassee
Soul Keeping – John Ortberg
A Heartbeat Away – Harry Kraus
The Year of Living Biblically – A. J. Jacobs
The Book of the Dun Cow – Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community – Leah Kostamo
The Wounded Healer – Henri Nouwen
The High Mountains of Portugal
 – Yann Martel

2018

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus – Nabeel Qureshi
The Faith Club – Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner
The Face of the Deep – Paul J. Pastor
Julian’s Cell – Ralph Milton
Trinity – Jason Byassee
Encounters with Jesus – Timothy Keller
Jesus Did Many Other Things as Well… – Anthony Schmidt
Finish the Mission – edited by John Piper & David Mathis
Elephant in the Christmas Pageant – Telmor Sartison

2019

The Moth: 50 True Stories – edited by Catherine Burns
The Towers of Trebizond – Rose Macaulay
Miracles – C. S. Lewis
Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God – translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
I Shall Not Hate – Izzeldin Abuelaish
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
The Non-Prophet’s Guide to the End Times – Todd Hampson
Trapped in Hitler’s Hell – Anita Dittman

2020

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
Days by Moonlight – André Alexis
The Death of Adam – Marilynne Robinson
God and Galileo – David L. Block and Kenneth C. Freeman
Saint Thomas Aquinas – G. K. Chesterton
Wrongs to Rights – edited by Steve Heinrichs
Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese

2021

Small Lives – Jeffrey McClain Jones
Call It Grace – Serene Jones
A Tale of Three Kings – Gene Edwards
Dear Church – Lenny Duncan
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
Resisting Structural Evil Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda
Wintering (The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times) Katherine May
A Farewell to Mars Brian Zahnd

2022

Life Together Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals Laura Duhan-Kaplan
The Tyranny of Merit Michael J. Sandel
Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes E. Randolph Richards and Brandon J. O’Brien
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God Kaitlin B. Curtice
All Our Relations Tanya Talaga
Unfollow Megan Phelps-Roper

2023

Reversed Thunder Eugene H. Peterson
IntimaciesKatie Kitamura
Book of RevelationJohn of Patmos
Deacon King KongJames McBride
By What AuthorityDr. George E. Sears
The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco
State of FearMichael Crichton
Disarming ScriptureDerek Flood

2024

Christian Nationalism Andrew Torba & Andrew Isker
The Pastor Eugene H. Peterson