Spiritual Book Club Reading List for 2013

2013-A Year of Great Books! Here's what we read and see spiritualbookclub.com to see what we're reading now :-)

January  Chasing the Divine in the Holy Land by the Rev. Ruth Everhart
Our group loved Ruth's honesty as she tells about her real emotions visiting these ancient places

You can see the book trailer for this book published by Eerdman's Publishing Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6SjaD_Safo

February 14 -Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit By Christel Nan

A member of our Spiritual Book Club said it was a compelling book that she was still thinking about, and we decided it was a great one to prompt discussion.

March 14 a little book about believing: The Transformative Healing Power of Faith, Love, and Surrender By Cash Peters  This book is about Cash's trip to visit John of God in Brazil, and to look into powers of healing, etc. www.cashpeters.com If you don't know Cash, he's a great guy with many talents, former radio host, etc. Those of you in the UK know him better, I think, than those of us in the U.S. Cash has a number of new books coming out too, the man's prolific!

April 18- Help Thanks Wow by Anne Lamott --Yep, we love her writing, her wordsmithery, her wit and with this one, she doesn't disappoint

May 9 Seven Sacred Pauses  by Macrina Wiederkehr

June 13 Sabbath by Wayne Muller

July 11 Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr

August 8 Going Clear by Lawrence Wright

Sept 12 The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family by Andrew Himes

                                   Authors Among Us Series

October 10 Atchison Blue by Judith Valente 

Sorin Books published this book about the Benedictine Sisters of Atchison, Kansas, and Judith Valente's travels and transformation as she visits the monastery month after month.See also Judith's fabulous book "The Art of Pausing"

November 14: Weeds Like Us by Gunter Nitsch

This book needs to be a movie...amazing story from WWII Prussia.

December 12 bring something which reminds you of the Divine

Read our interviews at blog.spiritualbookclub.com

You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me about Living, Dying, Fighting, Loving, and Swearing in Yiddish author Susan Kusher Resnick featured on our blog of interviews  

Fall 2012 books

October: Start Where You Are by Pema ChodrinNovember: Sum by David EaglemanDecember: New book by the Rev. Ruth Everhart, with Eerdman Publishing; see www.rutheverhart.com, or like her author page on Facebook

Spiritual Book Club Great Reads for You....

Spiritual Book Club 2012 Reading List
Some of the fine books we've been reading this summer into fall....

June:  Falling Upward by Richard Rohr
July: House of Prayer #2 by Mark Richard
August:  Be Love Now by Ram Dass
Reaching out to a new generation of readers, Ram Dass brings the world a powerful message of love and awakening. In Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart, the celebrated teacher guides us through pitfalls and perils of our own spiritual journey.  You can see the discussion questions generated at Patheos.comSeptember: Palace of Illusions by Chita Banerjee Divakaruni
October: Start Where You Are by Pema Chodrin
November: Sum by David Eagleman
December: New book by the Rev. Ruth Everhart, with Eerdmans Publishing; see www.rutheverhart.com
Photo is of author Ruth Everhart on the journey about which her book is written...enjoy!

A list of more Favorite Books-- from our 2011 interviews

Favorite Books- Part II from 2011 Interviews @blog.spiritualbookclub.com

These books come recommended, so we're sharing, who doesn’t love a great book list? Hmmmmm? Sure, there are old stand-bys, but some new ones for you too….

Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling

Flannery O’Connor’s short stories

Andrew Louth’s “Discerning the Mystery.”

David Sheff’s “Beautiful Boy“

Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.”

The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman

No Future without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu

“Have you got the guts to be really healthy” by Don Chisholm

Cleanse & Purify Thyself by Richard Anderson

Jane Austen’s Collected works (and if pushed Persuasion )

Evelyn Waugh’s

Sword of Honour trilogy

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

Upton Sinclair’s,

The Jungle

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Marilynne Robinson’s

Gilead

Barbara Kingsolver’s

The Poisonwood Bible

Terry Pratchett’s

Diskworld series

P.D.James works

Douglas Adams,

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

James Herriot,

All Creatures Great and Small

The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (2004) by Scot McKnight

To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, & Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World by James Davison Hunter

Bruce Chatwin’s

The Songlines,

Jack Gilbert’s book of poems,

The Dance Most of All.

Joseph Conrad’s

Heart of Darkness
John Updike’s

In The Beauty of the Lillies

Walker Percy’s

“The Second Coming”

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

“The Great Gatsby.”

Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis

Beyond the

Abbey Gates by Catherine MacCoun

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Paula D’Arcy’s

The Gift of the Red Bird and Anne Lamott’s Traveling Mercies and Plan B.

Mary Oliver’s books of poetry

The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Riso and Hudson

The Purpose of Your Life by Carol Adrienne

Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Spiritual Wholeness by Marsha Sintear

Ficciones by Borges

Varieties of Religious Experience, by James

Call it Sleep by Henry Roth

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Lit by Mary Karr

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

the Bible

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Remarque

Good Poems – arranged by Garrison Keillor

Virginia Woolf’s

To the Lighthouse

The Book of Margery Kempe

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

by J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

Plato’s Republic

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

The Sparrow

A Day with Pete the Seagull

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The Spontaneous Healing of Belief

and
Small Miracles-Extraordinary Coincidences from Everyday Life

For your suggestions, thank you: Verity, Jason, Nicole, Marcia, Kristina, Michael, Janet, Ray, Elissa, Robert, Dean, Greg, Kelsey, Jennifer, John, Meredith, Christine, Janelle, Carlos, Elizabeth, Amy, Ray, John, Cynthia, Elizabeth, Tyler, Eric, Conor, Brendan, Joan, Katie, Tracy