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Book Recommendations
From the June 2011 Forum

Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 12, 2011. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.

The 2011 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.

Name Genre Title Author ISBN
Terry Foss Non-fiction The Invisible Gorilla Chabris & Simons 978-0307459664
Roberta Foss Non-fiction The warmth of other suns Isabel Wilkerson 978-0679444329
Non-fiction The Lobster Coast Colin Woodard 978-0143035343
Shirley Philips Non-fiction The Art of Travel Alain de Botton 978-0375725340
Non-fiction How Proust can change your life Alain de Botton 978-0679779155
Fiction Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust
Charlie Philips Non-fiction Agenda for a new economy David C. Korten 978-1605093758
Betty Hartzell Non-fiction What Would Jefferson Do?: A Return to Democracy Hartmann & Wolff 978-1400052097
Fiction The tiger's wife Tea Obreht 978-0385343831
Non-fiction Cleopatra: A Life Stacy Schiff 978-0316001922
Kerry Krieger Fiction The faithful place Tana French 978-0143119494
Non-fiction Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die David Kessler 978-1401925437
Carla White Non-fiction Eleanor and Franklin Joseph Lash 978-1568520759
Non-fiction The Federalist Papers Hamilton, Madison & Jay 978-1936594405
Carolyn Schodt Fiction Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Non-fiction The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander 978-1595581037
Marcelle Martin Non-fiction The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe Lynn McTaggart 978-0061435188
Howard Lesnick Fiction A Reckoning May Sarton 978-0393316216
Non-fiction The Wisdom Books Robert Alter 978-0393068122
Ann Jones Poetry Enough Rope Dorothy Parker B00087AZ1E
Fiction In the company of cheerful ladies Alexander McCall Smith 978-1400075706
Phil Jones Non-fiction Food Matters Mark Bittman 978-1416575658
Sue Betts Fiction The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 978-1416550556
Fiction Moonflower Vine Jetta Carleton 978-0061673238
Dona Garrettson Fiction Portuguese Irregular Verbs Alexander McCall Smith 978-1400077083
Fiction The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs Alexander McCall Smith 978-1400095087
Fiction The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander McCall Smith 978-1400077090
Non-fiction Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed: The Story of the Village of Le Chambon and How Goodness Happened There Philip Hallie 978-0060925178
Fiction The Help Kathryn Stockett 978-0425245132
Cati Coe Non-fiction American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons Mark Dow 978-0520246690
Cheryl Shipman Non-fiction Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War Joe Bageant 978-0307339379

Also see the previous book forums.


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