Book
Recommendations
From the June 2010 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 13, 2010. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.
The 2010 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.
Eileen Flannagan recommended the website Read the Spirit as a good resource on spiritual books. Following the book discussion, Elieen spoke about some of the process she went through in writing her book The Wisdom to Know the Difference: When to Make a Change-and When to Let Go (ISBN: 978-1585427161) and then some of the challenges involved in getting it published.
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 |
| Charles Phillips | Fiction | 1421: The Year China Discovered America | Gavin Menzies | 978-0061564895 |
| Fiction | 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance | Gavin Menzies | 978-0061492181 | |
| Roberta Foss | Fiction | Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe | Laurence Bergreen | 006093638X |
| Sue Betts | Fiction | Cutting for Stone | Abraham Verghese | 978-0375714368 |
| Fiction | Lark and Termite | Jayne Ann Phillips | 978-0375701931 | |
| Fiction | The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel | David Wroblewski | 978-0061374234 | |
| Peter Borowiec | Fiction | Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea | Barbara Demick | 978-0385523905 |
| Lynn Mather | Fiction | The Double Comfort Safari Club | Alexander McCall Smith | 978-0375424502 |
| Fiction | The rest of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series | Alexander McCall Smith | ||
| Fiction | Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel | Helen Simonson | 978-1400068937 | |
| Terry Foss | Non-Fiction | The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair | Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea | 978-1605092560 |
| Marcelle Martin | Spirituality | To Be Broken and Tender: A Quaker Theology for Today | Margery Post Abbott | 978-0970041043 |
| Philip Jones | Poetry | New and Selected Poems: Volume 1 (or any others by her) |
Mary Oliver | 978-0807068786 |
| Ann Jones | Fiction | The White Tiger: A Novel | Aravind Adiga | 978-1416562603 |
| Fiction | Still Alice | Lisa Genova | 978-1439102817 | |
| Non-Fiction | The Wisdom to Know the Difference: When to Make a Change-and When to Let Go | Eileen Flanagan | 1585427160 | |
| Linda Rosenwein | Non-Fiction | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | Scott Mccloud | 978-0060976255 |
Also see the previous book forums.