Chestnut Hill Meeting Structure
Quaker Reflections / Statements / Advices
Book
Recommendations
From the June 2007 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place
on June 10, 2007.
Friends gathered to recommend books that they were
reading currently or had read in the past
and wanted to recommend.
The 2007 version of the Chestnut Hill Meeting Book
Forum list is given below, roughly in the order in
which the books were discussed. You can use the ISBN (or ASIN in one case)
to search for the book at any online (or bricks-and-mortar)
bookstore, or at most libraries.
| Suggester | Genre | Title | Author | ISBN |
| Ann Jones | Fiction | The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.) | Thrity Umrigar | 978-0060791568 |
| Fiction/Fantasy | The Thin Place | Kathryn Davis | 978-0316014243 | |
| Murder Mystery | The Lighthouse | P.D. James | 978-0307275738 | |
| Shirley Philips | Religion | Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America | Chris Hedges | 978-0743255141 |
| Betty Hartzell | Fiction | Pretty Birds | Scott Simon | 978-0812973303 |
| Fiction | The Alexandria Quartet | Lawrence Durrell | 978-0571052042 | |
| Non-fiction; Public Health | Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media | Lester Friedman, Editor | 978-0822332947 | |
| Roberta Foss | Fiction | Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds | Kit Bakke | 978-1567923117 |
| History | Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War | Drew Gilpin Faust | 978-0807855737 | |
| Non-fiction | Doga: Yoga for Dogs | Jennifer Brilliant | 811841677 | |
| Charlie Philips | Memoir | Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran | Terence Ward | 978-1400032235 |
| Lynn Mather | Religion/History | The Cave of Reconciliation: An Abrahamic Tale/An Ibrahimic Tale | Pecki Sherman Witonsky | 978-0827608474 |
| Poetry | Brotherly Love | Daniel Hoffmann | 978-0812217360 | |
| Pauline Doyle | Religion/History | Quakers on the Move: A Storybook of Quaker History from 1652 to Today | Friends General Conference | 978-1888305036 |
| Meg Mitchell | Non-fiction | Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life | Barbara Kingsolver | 978-0060852559 |
| Poetry | A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems | Wendell Berry | 978-1582430065 | |
| Short Stories | Fidelity: Five Stories | Wendell Berry | 978-0679748311 | |
| Elizabeth Koopman | Pamphlet | Where words come from: An interpretation of the ground and practice of Quaker worship and ministry | Douglas Steere | ASIN: B0006AU2JS |
| Pamphlet | Spiritual hospitality: A Quaker's understanding of outreach | Harvey Gillman | 978-0875743141 | |
| Joan Hagner | Diaries | Unpublished journals of Hagners' travels | Jack Hagner | n/a |
Also see the previous book forums.