Book
Recommendations
From the June 2009 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 14, 2009. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.
The 2009 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, 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/
| Name | Genre | Title | Author | ISBN |
| Phil Jones | Fiction | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Michael Chabon | 978-0007149827 |
| Betty Hartzell | The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes | Avraham Burg | 978-0230607521 | |
| Ann Jones | Poetry | Nine Horses | Billy Collins | 978-0375755200 |
| Short Stories | Olive Kitteridge | Elizabeth Strout | 978-0812971835 | |
| Fiction | The Miracle at Speedy Motors | Alexander McCall Smith | 978-0307277466 | |
| Roberta Foss | Autobiography | Dreams From My Father | Barack Obama | 978-1400082773 |
| Fictionalized history | Thunderstruck | Erik Larson | 978-1400080670 | |
| Mickey Abraham | Novel | The Leper | Steve Thayer | 978-0878392667 |
| Pauline Doyle | Non-fiction | Faith, Hope and Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer | Dr. Bernie Siegel and Jennifer Sander | 978-0470289013 |
| Terry Foss | Non-fiction | The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | 978-0312427900 |
| Non-fiction | Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation | Eyal Weizman | 978-1844671250 | |
| Linda Rosenwein | Novel | Ferdydurke | Witold Gombrowicz | 978-0300082401 |
| Novel | Out Stealing Horses | Per Pettersen | 978-0312427085 | |
| Non-fiction | The Man Who Fell Into a Puddle: Israeli Lives | Igal Sarna | 978-0375420627 | |
| Sue Betts | Short Stories | My Father's Tears and Other Stories | John Updike | 978-0307271563 |
| Memoir | Brother, I'm Dying | Edwidge Danticat | 978-1400034307 | |
| Non-fiction | The Soloist | Steve Lopez | 978-1607512035 | |
| Non-fiction | Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America | David Hackett Fischer | 978-0195069051 |
Also see the previous book forums.