FUMC Books of Life – Historical Reading List 2005-2016 (and growing!!) Book Author The Red Tent Anita Diamant Life of Pi Yann Martel Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott East of Eden John Steinbeck Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis Song of Solomon Toni Morrison The Five People You Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom Peace like a River Leif Enger The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Prodigal Summer Barbara Kingsolver The Known World Edward P. Jones Angels and Demons Dan Brown The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal Christopher Moore The Mermaid Chair Sue Monk Kidd Gilead Marilynne Robinson Mountains Beyond Mountains Tracy Kidder Number 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith Mercy of Thin Air Ronlyn Domingue Night Elie Wiesel The Problem with Murmur Lee Connie May Fowler Bee Season Myla Goldberg The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Jane Smiley Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin Jayber Crow Wendell Berry Small Wonder Barbara Kingsolver Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Eat, Pray Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert The Last American Man Elizabeth Gilbert Bagels and Grits: A Jew on the Bayou Jennifer Moses
2008 Sacred Eyes L. Robert Keck A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Rocket Boys Homer Hickman Plain Song Kent Haruf Atonement Ian McEwan Water for Elephants Sara Gruen The Bottoms Joe. R. Lansdale To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Moon and the Mango Tree Pamela Ewen New England White Stephen L. Carter Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Jon Krakauer Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission To Promote Peace…One School at a Time Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
2009 Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, Ron Hall, Denver Moore and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together and Lynn Vincent The Master Butchers Singing Club Louise Erdrich A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal Christopher Moore Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan Saturday Ian McEwan Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee Charles J. Shields The Devil in the White City Erik Larson Empire Falls Richard Russo Freedom to Fall Carol Hampson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson Red Bird Christmas Fannie Flagg
2010 Edwin Edwards -- Governor of Louisiana Leo Honeycutt The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeanette Walls The Novel James Michener Shanghai Girls: A Novel Lisa See Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Ava's Man Rick Bragg The Book Thief Markus Zusak In the Sanctuary of Outcasts Neil White One Good Dog Susan Wilson Zetouin Dave Eggers The Piano Teacher Janice Y. K. Lee The Gift of the Magi & Other Stories O. Henry
2011 The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival Ken Wheaton The Story of Edgar Sawtell David Wroblewski Freedom Jonathan Franzen The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel Tom Franklin The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Edith Beer & Susan Dworkin A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bill Bryson Cuba on My Mind Katie Wainwright The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot. A House at Riverton Kate Morton Sing You Home: A Novel Jodi Picoult
2012 Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankel North River Pete Hamil Faith Jennifer Haigh Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson Of Love and Dust Ernest Gaines A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder Karen Spears Zacharias The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese WILD Cheryl Strayed The Queen of Palmyra Minrose Gwin The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel Rachel Joyce
2013 Still Life Louise Penny Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Pilot Bruce & Andrea Leininger
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The Presidents Club Nancy Gibbs& Michael Duffy In the Shadow of the Banyan Vaddey Ratner Crazy Pete Early Judas the Apostle Van R. Mayhall, Jr. The Little Way of Ruthie Leming Rod Dreher Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill An Invisible Thread Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski The Dalai Lama's Secret and Other Reporting Adventures Henry S. Bradsher Killing Kennedy Bill O'Reilly. And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini.
2014 The Mapmaker's War Ronlyn Domingue The Signature of All Things Elizabeth Gilbert The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri Killing Jesus Bill O'Reilly. The Goldfinch Donna Tartt The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd 12 Years a Slave Solomon Northrup I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb The Fault in Our Stars John Green Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver Loving Frank: A Novel Nancy Horan The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee Marja Mills
2015 Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole Dreams of Joy Lisa See The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...Finding the Zodiac Killer Gary Stewart Still Alice Lisa Genova Zion Dayne Sherman All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr Eyes on You Kate White Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee Ordinary Grace William Kent Krueger Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin
2016 At the Waters Edge Sara Gruen The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende Me Before You Jojo Moyes
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