Book
Recommendations
From the June 2013 Forum
Chestnut Hill's annual book forum took place on June 9, 2013. Friends gathered to recommend books that they were reading currently or had read in the past and wanted to recommend.
The 2013 version of the Chestnut Hill Meeting Book Forum list is given below, roughly in the order in which the books were discussed.
| Person | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Mather | I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity | Izzeldin Abuelaish |
| Ann Jones | Swamplandia! | Karen Russell |
| Roberta Foss | The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka |
| When the Emperor Was Divine | Julie Otsuka | |
| Skye Peterson | Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Book 1 of 27) | Barbara Park |
| Gayle Davidson | Good Morning, Beautiful Business: The Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local-Economy Pioneer | Judy Wicks |
| The Orange Robe: My Eighteen Years as a Yogic Nun | Marsha Goluboff Low | |
| Ani Peterson | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J. K. Rowling |
| Jean Warrington | Wolf Hall: A Novel | Hilary Mantel |
| Phil Jones | A Thousand Mornings | Mary Oliver |
| Why I Wake Early | Mary Oliver | |
| Sherman Hawkins | The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Ernie Cuff | The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage and the Struggle for the Mediterranean | Nigel Bagnall |
| Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers | Patricia C. Mckissack | |
| Terry Foss | Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know | Alexandra Horowitz |
| Sue Betts | Hiroshima | John Hersey |
| The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature | David George Haskell | |
| The Roots of My Obsession: Thirty Great Gardeners Reveal Why They Garden | Thomas C Cooper | |
| Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel | |
| Tricia Walmsley | Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras | Diana L. Eck |
| Monsieur Linh and His Child | Philippe Claudel, trans. Euan Cameron |
Also see the previous book forums.