Christian Classics Book Club Meetings – Monday Evenings, 7:00 pm
On 11/18/19, we will discuss: Number Our Days, by Barbara Myerhoff
On 01/13/20, we will discuss: The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness on Tate & Lyle’s East End, by Duncan Barrett & Nuala Calvi
On 03/16/20, we will discuss: The Quiet American, by Graham Greene
On 05/18/20, we will discuss: Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
On 09/21/20, we will discuss: Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
On 11/16/20, we will discuss: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: A Novel, by Gail Honeyman
On 01/11/22, we will discuss: Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel, by Celeste Ng
On 03/15/21, we will discuss: Bittersweet, by Colleen McCullough
On 05/17/21 TBD
We have already read: Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader's Journey Through the Christian Classics, by Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. “The Second Inaugural Address,” by Abraham Lincoln Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather Walden, by Henry David Thoreau The Confessions, by St. Augustine The Story of a Soul, by St. Thérèse of Lisieux Cry, the Beloved Country, by Alan Paton The Love of Jesus and the Love of Neighbor, by Karl Rahner, S.J. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” by Martin Luther King, Jr. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Alex Haley Mr. Blue, by Myles Connolly Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, by Helen Prejean The Long Loneliness, by Dorothy Day The Devil’s Advocate, by Morris West The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Gilead, by Marilyn Robinson In Due Season, by Paul Wilkes Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos Dubliners, by James Joyce The Edge of Sadness – Edwin O’Connor The Imitation of Christ, by Thomas a Kempis The Four Loves, by C. S. Lewis Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton Black Robe, by Brian Moore Sacred Hearts, by Sarah Dunant Everything that Rises Must Converge, “Revelation,” by Flannery O’Connor The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant Magnificent Obsession, by Lloyd C. Douglas Thank God Ahead of Time: The Life and Spirituality of Venerable Solanus Casey, by Fr. Michael Crosby In His Steps, by Charles Monroe Sheldon Silence, by Shusaku Endo Letters and Papers from Prison, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace Mont–Saint–Michael and Chartres, by Henry Adams Caleb’s Crossing, by Geraldine Brooks. The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything, by James Martin, SJ That’s Funny, You Don’t Look Buddhist, by Sylvia Boorstein The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham Basilica, by R.A. Scotti This Heavy Silence, by Nicole Mazzarella Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey Through the 20th Century and How He Learned to Read at Age 98, by George Dawson, and Richard Glaubman Circle of Quiet by Madeleine L’Engle Where River Turns to Sky, by Gregg Kleiner Carry on, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed, by Glennon Doyle Melton Special Heart, by Bret Baier Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Philip Yancey and Paul Brand Rediscover Jesus, by Matthew Kelly Home Fires, by Julie Summers My Life with the Saints, by James Martin, SJ Blood Brothers, by Elias Chacour, with David Hazard Everything Belongs, by Richard Rohr fearing the stigmata, by Matt Weber Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind, by Roger Walsh, MD, PHD, foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Hotel of the Saints, by Ursula Hegi The Shepherd Who Didn’t Run: Fr. Stanley Rother, Martyr from Oklahoma, by María Ruiz Scaperlanda Far from the East End: The Moving Story of an Evacuee’s Survival and Search for Home, by Iris Jones Simantel The Glass Castle: A Memoir, by Jeannette Walls With God in Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest's Twenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps, byWalter J. Ciszek, S.J., and Daniel L. Flaherty, S.J. When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi, foreword by Abraham Verghese A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson What She Left Behind, by Ellen Marie Wiseman The Life We Bury, by Allen Eskens Secrets of a Charmed Life, by Susan Meissner Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford