Fiction Fun! Connecting to the Human Soul
Join us on the third Monday of each month
Fiction Fun meets monthly to discuss fiction and its connection to the human soul. Started by a former Cathedral Dean, the group has been meeting for about 5 years and has read challenging and fun books from classic to current.
The group meets on the third Monday of each month from 7-8:30 pm in the Cathedral Library. Members take turns leading one of the monthly book discussions. All readers are welcome! For current books and to receive a reminder, contact coordinator Bev Rude at [email protected]. RSVP is appreciated: [email protected]
Looking for a good summer read? Here are the monthly books on the horizon.
July 15 -- The Little Paris Book Shop: by Nina George, led by Wen-Li Lu. August 19 -- White Teeth by Zadie Smith, led by D’Oniece Dillard September 16 - In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende, led by Betsy Hague October 21 -- Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende, led by Maha Armaly November 18 -- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gábriel García Marquez, led by Corbin Lyday December 16 -- The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich, led by Bobbie Messal
More summer reads! Are you wondering what the group has been reading for the past five years? Here’s the list of books, from oldest to most recent:
The Circle by Dave Eggers A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Dear Life by Alice Munro Bring Up the Bodies by Hillary Mantel NW by Zadie Smith
Offered through the Office of the Vicar, Washington National Cathedral. For more information on congregation programs, visit the WNC website: https://cathedral.org/congregation/
Lila by Marilynne Robinson Old Filth by Jane Gardam The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald The Professor’s House by Willa Cather Death Comes to the Archbishop by Willa Cather The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Baker Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-year Search by Martin Sixsmith The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Last Friends by Jane Gardam The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Midnight’s Children by Salman Rusdie Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Nora Webster by Colm Tobin In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen The Elegance of a Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Excellent Women by Barbara Pym Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Samuri’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama Losing Battles by Eurdora Welty The Hummingbird by Stephen P. Kiernan Gilead by Marilynn Robinson A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Home by Marilynne Robinson. Lila by Marilynne Robinson. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov My Antonia by Willa Cather The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
Offered through the Office of the Vicar, Washington National Cathedral. For more information on congregation programs, visit the WNC website: https://cathedral.org/congregation/