Book
Recommendations
From the June 2012 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 10, 2012. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.
The 2012 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.
| Person | Book | Author | Genre | ISBN |
| Terry Foss | Let This Life Speak, by Margaret Hope Bacon | Margaret Hope Bacon | Biography | 978-0812280456 |
| Those Who Save Us, by Jenna Blum | Jenna Blum | novel | 978-0156031660 | |
| Sue Betts | Seeing Trees, by Nancy Ross Hugo | Nancy Ross Hugo | Natural History | 978-1604692198 |
| Bringing Up the Bodies, Hillary Mantel | Hilary Mantel | novelization of history | 978-0805090031 | |
| Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, Florence Williams | Florence Williams | Natural History | 978-0393063189 | |
| Metropolitan Paradise, David Contesta and Carol Franklin | David Contosta and Carol Franklin | Environmental | 978-0916101664 | |
| Roberta Foss | Old Filth, Jane Gardam | Jane Gardam | Novel | 978-1933372136 |
| Bleak House, Charles Dickens | Charles Dickens | Novel | free ebook download | |
| Shirley Philips | Religion for Atheists, Alain De Botton | Alain de Botton | Religion | 978-0307379108 |
| Betty Hartzell | Beyond Religion: Ethics for the Whole World, Dalai Lama | Dalai Lama | Religion | 978-0547636351 |
| State of Wonder, Ann Patchett | Ann Patchett | Novel | 978-0062049803 | |
| The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabelle Wilkersons | Isabelle Wilkerson | History | 978-0679444329 | |
| Ann Jones | Tony Hillerman's mysteries: Sacred Clowns et al. | Tony Hillerman | Mystery | 978-0061092602 |
| Phil Jones | The Janissary Tree | Jason Goodwin | Mystery | 978-0374178604 |
| Charlie Philips | Agenda for a New Economy | David C Korten | Economics | 978-1605093758 |
| Andrew Brasfield | A Lawyer's Journey, Morris Dees | Morris Dees | SPLC | 978-1570739941 |
| Pete Borowiec | Paper Trails | Pete Dexter | short stories/columns | 978-0061189357 |
| Charlotte Hedgebeth | Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America | David Hackett Fischer | sociology, history | 978-0195069051 |
| Roger Walmsley | Studies in Mystical Religion | Rufus Jones | religion | free ebook download |
| Rufus Jones, Essential Writings | Kerry Walters | Religion | 978-1570753800 | |
| Tricia Walmsley | Bean Trees | Barbara Kingsolver | Novel | 978-0060915544 |
| Pigs in Heaven | Barbara Kingsolver | Novel | 978-0061098680 | |
| Seven Years in Tibet | Heinrich Harrer | Memoir | 978-0874778885 | |
| Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography | Diki Tsering | Autobiography | 978-0670889051 | |
| Steps of Courage | Bettina Hoerlin | Biography | 978-1463426187 | |
| Mary Day Kent | House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East | Anthony Shadid | Memoir | 978-0547134666 |
Also see the previous book forums.