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