Fiction & Poetry

broken symmetry (Jack Ridl) poetry

Case Histories (Kate Atkinson) novel

Death in the Garden (Elizabeth Ironside) mystery novel

Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski) novel

Gilead (Marilynne Robinson) novel

Icefields (Thomas Wharton) novel

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakam) novel

Lost in the Forest (Sue Miller) novel

Moon Tiger (Penelope Lively) novel

Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) novel

On Beauty (Zadie Smith) novel

One Good Turn (Kate Atkinson) novel

Out Stealling Horses (Per Petterson) novel

Outside the Center Ring (Jack Ridl) poetry

The Cave (Jose Saramango) no

The Doctor's Daughter (Hilma Wolitzer) novel

The Gathering (Anne Enright) novel

The History of Love (Nicole Krauss) novel

The Maytrees (Annie Dillard) novel

The Wife (Meg Wolitzer) novel

What the Dead Know (Laura Lippman) mystery novel

 
Non-fiction & Creative Non-fiction

A Complaint Free World (Will Bowen) psychology

About Alice (Calvin Trilin) memoir

Audacity of Hope/ Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Barack Obama) politics

Bueprint for Action (Thomas P.M. Barnett) geopolitical

Crucial Conversations (Patterson,Grenny, McMillan, Switzler) psychology

Democracy Matters (Cornel West) politics

Dialogue - The Art of Thinking Together (William issacs) communication/ conflict resolution

Don't Think of an Elephant (George Lakoff) politics

For the Time Being (Annie Dillard) essay/philosophy/ spirituality

For the Time Being (Annie Dillard) personal essay

Leaving Church (Barbara Brown Taylor) religion

Our Endangered Values (Jimmy Carter) politics

Page after Page (Heather Sellers) writing

Team of Rivals (Doris Kearns Goodwin) history

The Culture Code (Clotaire Rapaille) psychology

The Grand Option (Beatrice Bruteau) spirituality

The Liar's Club (Mary Karr) memoir

The Medici Effect (Frans Johansson) business/ innovation

The Political Brain (Drew Westin) politics

The Portable MFA in Creative Writing (The New York Writer's Workshop/Tim Tomlinson) writing

The Soul of Christianity (Huston Smith) religion

The Sound on the Page (Ben Yagoda) writing

The Ten Faces of Innovation (Tom Kelley) business/psychology

The World is Flat (Thomas L. Friedman) business/politics

The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion) memoir

Three Cups of Tea (Greg Morenson and David Oliver Relin) compassion

Toxic Feedback (Joni B. Cole) writing

Writing Life Stories (Bill Roorbach) writing

Writing the Natural Way (Gabriele Rico) writing

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Under Fiction & Poetry

Edgar Sawtell - novel
The Gathering - novel
Out Stealling Horses - novel
Icefields - novel
The History of Love - novel
What the Dead Know - novel
One Good Turn - novel


Under Non-Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction
A Complaint Free World - psychology/spirituality
For the Time Being - essay/ philosophy
The Political Brain - politics
Three Cups of Tea - compassion
The Portable MFA - writing
Audacity of Hope - politics




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Books I hope to read that you have recommended:

From the Family –

From Chris Taylor:
He’s winning by the way! His new job has him on airplanes a good share of the time. I envy him his reading time! I’m going to start listing his most recent ones first…

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth (Friedman)economics/political - skim he says, it’s long but important!
Three Billion New Capitalists (Prestowitzeconomics/political skim this one too he says!
The End of Oil (Paul Roberts)economics/political
The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton M. Christensen)business
Everything Bad Is Good For You (Steven Johnson) cognitive thinking / parenting

From Nicole DeNooyer:
In the Time of the Butterflies (Julia Alvarez) novel
Purple Hibiscus (Chimananda Ngozi Adichie) novel

From Dominique DeNooyer: Audio Books! Dominique likes to listen to his books!
The Tipping Point(Malcom Gladwell) psychology/business
Freakonomics (Steven Levitt) psychology/business
Blink(Malcom Gladwell) psychology/business
Nickel and Dimed(Barbara Ehrenreich) contemporary culture/sociology

From Craig Hoeksema
The Way We Eat (Peter Singer) contemporary culture/sociology
The End of Poverty (Jeffrey Sachs ) contemporary culture/sociology
Pathologies of Power  (Paul Farmer) politics/sociology
The History of Love (Nicole Krauss) novel (I recommend too, see review)

From Meredith Volkema
The Omnivore's Dilemma (Michael Pollan) - ethics & enviornmental food issues
 
And Friends –

From Marge DuBois
Cage of Stars (Jacquelyn Mitchard) novel

From Mary Haab:
The Little Locksmith (Kate Butler Hathaway) (pub.ished 1943) novel
Dreams of My Russian Summer (Andrei Makine) novel
The Sea (John Banville) novel
All the Names (Jose Saramago) Saramago won the Nobel in 1998
Yo (Julia Alverez) novel
Feast of the Goat (Mario Vargas Llosa) novel
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (ZZ Packer) short stories
Heart is a Lonely Hunter(McCullers) novel
Will in the World (Greenblatt) novel

From Peter Haab:
Suite Francaise (Irene Nemirosky) novel
The Cave (Jose Saramago)novel

From Diane Kalusniah:
A Thousand Spendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini author of The Kite Runner). novel
The Book Theif (Marcus Zusak) novel
The Zahir/ A Novel of Obsession (Paulo Coelho) novel
One Thousand White Women (
Jim Fergus) novel

From Melissa Kruse:
Buffalo Girls (Larry McMurtry) novel

From Leon Midgett
Castle in the Forest (Norman Mailer) novel
World wihtout End (Ken Follett - sequel to Pillars of the Earth) novel

From Sally Mulder
Moloka'i (Alan Brennert) novel

From Ruth Posthumus
Saving the World(Jula Alvarez) novel
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achee ) novel
Wicked (Gregory McGuire) novel
The Emperor's Children (Claire Messud) novel

From Kym Reinstadler
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Kim Edwards) novel
Three Junes (Julia Glass) novel
The Inheritance of Loss (
Kiran Desai) novel (the 2006 Man Booker Prize Winner)

From Barbara Saunier
The Mozart Effect (
Don Campbell) (nonfiction, music and creative expression)

From Trent Thompson
Ishmael (Daniel Quinn) novel
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man(John Perkins) politcs/economics
Failed States, The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy(Noam Chomsky) politics

From Andrea VerBeek:
Memor of Running(Ron McLarty) memoir
The Lake, The River and The Other Lake (Steve Amid) novel
Glass CAstle: A Memoir (Jeanette Walls) novel