Fiction & Poetry

broken symmetry (Jack Ridl) poetry

City of Thieves (David Benioff) novel

Edgar Sawtelle (David Wroblewski) novel

Firmin (Sam Savage) novel

Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann) novel

Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout) novel

Putting Away Childish Things (Marcus J. Borg) religion

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery) novel

The Guernsey LIterary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows) novel

The History of Love (Nicole Krauss) novel

The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes) novel

This Side of Brightness (Colum McCann) novel

Tinkers (Paul Harding) novel

Zoli (Colum McCann) novel

 
Non-fiction & Creative Non-fiction

A Complaint Free World (Will Bowen) psychology

An Altar in the World (Barbara Brown Taylor) finding the sacred in the everyday

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

Dawn Light (Diane Ackerman) essays

Dog Days (Jon Katz) for animal lovers

happiness is an inside job (Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D) spirituality, life management skills

Making Poems (Todd Davis and Erin Muphy, editors) How poets write poems

One Writer's Beginnings (Eudora Welty) writing

Poetry as Survival (Gregory Orr) writing

Saved by a Poem (Kim Rosen) learning poetry - by heart

The Cost of Civilization/ Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity (Jeffrey D. Sachs) politics/ economics

The Culture Code (Clotaire Rapaille) psychology

The Healing of American/A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (T.R.Reid) health care

The Left-handed Story (Nancy Willard) writing

The Sectret Life of the Grown-Up Brain/ The Surprising Talents of the Milddle-Aged Mind (Barbara Strauch) the brain

Writing and Enjoying Haiku/ A Hands-on Guide (Jane Reichhold) writing/ how-to

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Under Fiction & Poetry
Zoli - novel
This Side of Brightness - novel
Firmin - novel
The Sense of an Ending - novel
Tinkers - novel
Putting Away Childish Things - novel/ religion
Let the Great World Spin- novel (National Book Award)
City of Thieves - novel
Olive Kitteridge - novel
The Guernsey Literary and Sweet Potato Peel Pie Society  - novel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - novel


Under Non-Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction
happiness is an inside job - spirituality/ life skills
Writing and Enjoying Haiku/ A Hands-on Guide - writing
The Price of Civilization - politics/ economics
Dawn Light - essays
Saved by a Poem - learning poetry by heart
Making Poems - Poems with commentary by the poets
The Healing of America - the health care debate
Dog Days  - for animal lovers
The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain - neuroscience
An Altar in the World - the spiritual life
The Worst Hard Time
- history
Hot Flat and Crowded - geopolitical