Book
Recommendations
From the June 2006 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on
June 11, 2006. Friends gathered to recommend books
that they were reading currently or had read in the
past and wanted to recommend.
The 2006 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
to search for the book at any online (or bricks-and-mortar)
bookstore, or at most libraries.
| Suggester | Genre | Title |
Author | ISBN |
| Sue Betts |
Historical fiction | Paradise Alley | Kevin Baker | 006095521X |
| Non-fiction | Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash | Elizabeth Royte | 0316738263 | |
| Ann Jones | Historical fiction | March | Geraldine Brooks | 0143036661 |
| Fiction | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 1594480001 | |
| John Nordlof | Science | Darwin's Ghost | Steve Jones | 0345422775 |
| Looking for Spinoza: Feeling and the Human Brain | Antonio Damasio | 0156028719 | ||
| History | Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America | Allen Guelzo | 0743262972 | |
| Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President | Harold Holzer | 0743224663 | ||
| Warren Witte | Fiction | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 031242440X |
| Pat Witte | Fiction | Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Patrick Suskind | 0375725849 |
| Short Story Collection | The Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 039592720X | |
| Non-fiction | Let Evening Come | Mary Morrison | 0385490860 | |
| Non-fiction | The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond 60 | Carolyn Heilbrun | 0345422953 | |
| Fiction | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Michael Dorris | 0312421850 | |
| Autobiography | This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind | Ivan Doig | 0156899825 | |
| Linda Rosenwein | Essays | The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle | Igal Sarna | 037572477X |
| Fiction | The Human Stain | Philip Roth | 0375726349 | |
| Jackie Fields | Fiction | Anything by this author |
Barbara Samuels | - |
| Pat Witte | Science | The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time | Jonathan Weiner | 067973337X |
| Dylan Steinberg | Fiction | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 0141439726 |
| Pat Witte | Essays | Journalistas : 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists | Kira
Cochrane & Eleanor Mills, editors |
0786716673 |
| Sue Nordlof | Historical Fiction | Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | 0451525264 |
| Roberta Foss | Memoir | Riding the Bus with My Sister: a True Life Journey | Rachel Simons | 0452284554 |
| Autobiography | Ake: The Years of Childhood | Wole Soyinka | 0679725407 | |
| Terry Foss | Mystery | The
Full Cupboard of Life or anything in this series |
Alexander Mccall Smith | 1400031818 |
| Biography | Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding) | Bruce Alexander | 0425150070 | |
| Marylou Hurwitz | History | Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth | Gitta Sereny | 0679768122 |
| Terry Foss | Science | Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior | Temple Grandin | 0156031442 |
| Pat Witte | Fiction | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 1400032717 |
| Memoir | Lost in Translation | Ava Hoffman | 0140127739 | |
| Fiction | Snow | Orhan Pamuk | 0375706860 |
Also see the previous book forums.