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

25 Books Those We Interviewed Loved....

25 Books They Loved: @blog.spiritualbookclub.com

Our list of interviews this year included a fine host of folks, and here are 25 of their favorite books (with more books to come!)

　



Women  by Charles Bukowski

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Seat of the Soulby Gary Zukav

I Had It All The Timeby Alan Cohen

Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
The Nativity, Julie Vivas
The Holy Bible

A Wolf Story by Jes Byron Huggins

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith by Kathleen Norris

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari:A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Quantum Healing:


Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine by Deepak Chopra

Sailing Alone Around the Room: Collected Poems by Billy Collins

The 1928 Book of Common Prayer by Oxford University Press

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson

The Isaiah Effect by Gregg Braden

The Way of the Wizard by Deepak Chopra


Thank you: Phil, Cash, Elizabeth, Daniel, Karen, Amy Julia (she blogs here at Patheos at Thin Places),Graham, Diana, P. V., Bob, Sharmen, Peter Michael, Brent