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St. John's Book Club Reading List August 2009-May 2010 We will be meeting at 10:30am on the following Thursdays, for our book discussions and a potluck brunch. Newcomers are always welcome! Please contact Lynne Chandler with questions: StJohnsMaadi@cs.com August 20 - General author discussion of Graham Greene – choose any of his books to read! (The Power & The Glory, The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, Monsignor Quixote, A Burnt-Out Case, Heart of the Matter, The Comedians, Ways of Escape etc…) @ Barbara S’s September 10 – The Book Thief – Markus Zusak @ Lynne’s October 9 - Dear & Glorious Physician (on the life of St. Luke) – Taylor Caldwell @ Terry’s November 12 – A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) – Classic of the year - @ Barbara C’s December 10 – Songs in Waiting: Spiritual Reflections on the Middle Eastern Songs Surrounding Christ’s Birth (Paul-Gordon Chandler’s short new Advent book – he will come speak at book club AND The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery) @ Terry’s January 14 – The Power of the Powerless: A Brother’s Legacy of Love (Christopher de Vinck) February 11 – Hot, Flat and Crowded (Thomas Friedman) – @ Susan’s March 18 – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows) @ Kat’s April 15- Embracing a Concrete Desert: A Spiritual Journey Towards Wholeness (Lynne Chandler) AND the short book Breakfast with the Infidels (Nabil Shawkat) @ Suzanne’s May 13 - Dr. Ragab’s Universal Language (Robert Twigger) – author visit @ Lynne’s
Past St. John's Book Club Lists.... August 2008 - May 2009 August - Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) September – General Author Discussion – choose any of his books to read…. Orhan Pamuk – Turkish author (My Name is Red/Snow/The New Life/Black Book/The White Castle) October - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose - Echkhart Tolle November – Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hahn December - A Long Day’s Dying – Frederick BuechnerJanuary - Soul Survivor – Philip Yancey (visiting St. John’s early Feb. ‘09) February - Nefertiti – Michelle Moran March - Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World –Thomas Cahill (he will be visiting St. John’s for The Cairo Lecture – April 4, 2009) April - Innocents Abroad – Mark Twain – pilgrimage through Europe and the Holy Land (1869) May - Playing Cards in Cairo – Hugh Miles
September 2007 - May 2008 September – general author – Nadine Gordimer October - “Grace Eventually” – Anne Lamott November – “When Jesus Came to Harvard” – Harvey Cox December – “Pilgrims of Christ on the Muslim Road” – Paul-Gordon Chandler January – “Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard” – Kiran Desai February – “Jane Eyre” – Charlotte Bronte – classic of the year March – “The Only Road North” – Erik Mirandette April – “Secrets of the Savanna: Twenty-three Years in the African Wilderness Unraveling the Mysteries of Elephants and People” – Mark and Cordelia Owens May – “The Man from Bashmour: A Modern Arabic Novel” – Salwa Bakr September 2006 - May 2007 September – Charles Dickens (general author discussion – choose any book – welcoming newcomers!) October - "God's Global Mosaic" (Paul Gordon Chandler) November – “Phantastes” (George MacDonald) December - "The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner" (Maya Bijvoet Williamson) January – “Julian's Cell” (Ralph Milton) - historical fiction; the life of Julian of Norwich February - “Whose Land? Whose Promise?” (Gary Burge) March – “Gilead” (Marilynne Robinson) April – “The Devil & Miss Prym” (Paulo Coelho) May - “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” (Annie Dillard)
September 2005- May 2006 October - Taken on Trust - by Terry Waite (Nov. 10-12 he will be speaking at St. John's) November - Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths - by Karen Armstrong December - Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith - by Anne LaMott January - The Man Who Was Thursday – G.K. Chesterton February - The Miracle Detective - by Randall Sullivan March - Godric - Frederick Buechner April - Blood Brothers - by Elias Chacour May - Wisdom of the Sadhu: Teachings of Sundar Singh - by Sundar Singh
September 2004- May 2005 September - John Steinbeck book of your choice! October - The Wiles of Men (short stories) by Egyptian author Salwa Bakr - she'll come speak to our group that day. November - Bel Canto (by Ann Patchett) December - The Five People You Will Meet In Heaven (by Mitch Albom) January - The Alchemist: (by Paulo Coelho) February - From the Holy Mountain (William Dalrymple) March - Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) April - How the Irish Saved Civilization (Thomas Cahill) May - Walking the Bible (Bruce Feiler)
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