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Book Recommendations
From the June 2008 Forum

Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 9, 2008. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.

The 2008 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.

The online resource that Terry Foss mentioned, Book Musings, is a "chatty email highlighting interesting books and providing a limited-time-only discount. Links to interviews with authors and book guides are also featured in these emails." You can subscribe to the e-mail on this page: www.quakerbooks.org/musings/

Suggester Genre Title Author ISBN
Betty Hartzell Fiction The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 978-1594480003
Fiction Atonement Ian Mcewan 978-0307387158
Non-fiction The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Michael Pollan 978-0143038580
Sue Betts Fiction Obasan Joy Kogawa 978-0385468862
Fictionalized Memoir What is the What? Dave Eggers 978-1932416640
Fiction Out Stealing Horses Per Pettersen 978-0312427085
Ann Jones Memoir Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert 978-0143038412
Cookbook The Taste of Country Cooking Edna Lewis 978-0307265609
Eileen Flanagan Memoir Learning from the Heart: Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening Dan Gottlieb 978-1402749995
Luke Flanagan Volkert Fiction The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) Rick Riordan 978-0786838653
Fiction The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) Rick Riordan 786856866
Kerry Krieger Memoir The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music Steve Lopez 978-0425226001
Charlie Philips Memoir Searching for Hassan: An American Family's Journey Home to Iran Terence Ward 978-0618048441
Shirley Philips Fiction You Remind Me of Me: A Novel Dan Chaon 978-0345441409
Memoir The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeanette Walls 074324754X
Jackie Fields Fiction Loving Frank Nancy Horan 978-0345495006
Fiction A Free Life Ha Jin 978-0375424656
Roberta Foss Fiction Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War Sebastian Faulks 978-0679776819
Fiction Blood Tie Mary Lee Settle 978-1570030970
Margie Ruddick Fiction Engleby: A Novel Sebastian Faulks 978-0385524056
Memoir Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home Lisa Funderburg 978-1416547662
Robert Davis Non-fiction Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality Thomas Moore 978-0060953720
Terry Foss History Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization Nicholson Baker 978-1416567844
Non-fiction Nonviolence: 25 Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea Mark Kurlansky & Dalai Lama 978-0679643357
Linda Rosenwein Science Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Stephen Jay Gould 978-0393307009
Christie Duncan-Tessmer Memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah 978-0374105235
Mystery Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America Eliot Pattison 978-1593761851
Jackie Fields Non-fiction A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Eckhart Tolle 978-0452289963
PYM Non-fiction Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future Margaret Wheatley 978-1576751459
Children's The Other Way to Listen Byrd Baylor & Peter Parnall 978-0689810534
Zach Duncan-Tessmer Fiction The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis 978-0066238500

Also see the previous book forums.

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