Book
Recommendations
From the June 2005 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on
June 12, 2005. Friends gathered to recommend books
that they were reading currently or had read in the
past and wanted to recommend. Rather than try to
capture in these notes any sense of the description
that each person gave, I've appended the ISBN numbers.
If you search for the ISBN number at on on-line or
a physical bookstore, you should be able to find
the book.
Here, more or less in the order people talked about
them, are the books recommended this year, followed
by (the name of the person recommending the book):
| Suggester | Genre | Title | Author | ISBN |
| Ann Jones | Fantasy/SciFi | Sabriel | Garth Nix | 0064471837 |
| Ann Jones | Fiction | The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 0618485228 |
| various | Short Stories | The Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 039592720X |
| Betsy Wallace | Fiction | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 1594480001 |
| Betsy Wallace | Fiction | Horse Heaven | Jane Smiley | 0449005410 |
| Meg Mitchell | Fiction | Lighthousekeeping | Jeanette Winterson | 0151011176 |
| Meg Mitchell | Fiction | Written on the Body | Jeanette Winterson | 0679744479 |
| George Garrettson | Religion | The Gnostic Gospels | Elaine Pagels | 0679724532 |
| Linda Rosenwein | Courses on Tape/CD | Relation Between Philosophy and Religion | The Teaching Company www.teach12.com |
n/a? |
| Carla White | Religion | From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith | L. Michael White | 0060526556 |
| Christie Duncan-Tessmer | Religion | The Godbearing Life: The Art of Soul Tending for Youth Ministry | Kenda Creasy Dean | 0835808580 |
| Eileen Flanagan | Religion, Politics | God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It | Jim Wallis | 0060558288 |
| Eileen Flanagan | Non-fiction | The Truth behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother? | Miriam Peskowitz | 1580051294 |
| Eileen Flanagan | Fiction | The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova | 0316011770 |
| Sue Betts | Memoir | Grace Notes | Heidi Hart | 0874807875 |
| Sue Betts | Fiction | Small Island | Andrea Levy | 0312424671 |
| Dylan Steinberg | Non-fiction | The Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence | Bruce Mann | 0674009029 |
| Dylan Steinberg | "Alternate History" | The Eyre Affair | Jasper Fforde | 0142001805 |
| Amey Hutchins | Fiction | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 015602943X |
| Dona Garrettson | Religion | Adam and Eve and the Serpent | Elaine Pagels | 0679722327 |
| Melanie Monk | Philosophy | The Marriage of Sense and Soul | Ken Wilber | 0767903439 |
| Melanie Monk | Fiction | Boomeritis | Ken Wilber | 1590300084 |
| Roberta Foss | Fiction | The Storm Rider | Akira Yoshimura | 0151006679 |
| Roberta Foss | Fiction | The Feast of Love | Charles Baxter | 037570910X |
| Terry Foss | Fiction | The Magician's Assistant | Ann Patchett | 0156006219 |
| Terry Foss | Memoir | The Intrepid Quaker: One Man's Quest for Peace : Memoirs, Speeches, and Writings of Stephen G. Cary | Alison Anderson and Jack Coleman, eds. | 0875749437 |
| Jean Warrington | History | Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad And The War For The Soul Of America | Fergus Bordewich | 0060524308 |
| Bob Rosenwein | Fiction | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 0156027321 |
| Liz Williams | Fiction | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | 0312424094 |
| Bob Rosenwein | History | All Shook Up: How Rock 'N' Roll Changed America (Pivotal Moments in American History) | Glenn Altschuler | 0195139437 |
| Christie Duncan-Tessmer | Historical Fiction | The Little House books (for read-aloud) | Laura Ingalls Wilder | 0060282444 (for Prairie |
| Carla White | Action/adventure | Anything by this author; writes about African life | Wilbur Smith | 0449221032 (Diamond Hunters) |
Also see the previous book forums.