Recommended Reading
Adults
Fiction
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
The Overstory - Richard Powers
The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
The Book of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd
Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Giver - Lois Lowry
The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See
Louisa - Elizabeth DuBois
Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger
This Tender Land - William Kent Krueger
The Order - Daniel Silva
Nonfiction
Falling Upward - Richard Rohr
Welcoming the Unwelcome - Pema Chodron
God Is Not a Christian - Desmond Tutu
Unbinding Christianity - Jan Linn
Pride: You Can’t Heal If You’re Hiding from Yourself - Ron Holt
The Great Spiritual Migration - Brian McLaren
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and other Lessons from the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty
Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children - Thich Nhat Hanh
Untamed - Glennon Doyle
When My Time Comes - Diane Rehm
Pre-Post-Racial America - Sandhya Rani Jha
If Nuns Ruled the World - Jo Piazza
Sustaining Hope in an Unjust World - Timothy Charles Murphy
Table Talk: Rethinking Communion and Community - Mike Graves
Outlandish - Derek Penwell
Evangelicalism and the Decline of American Politics - Jan G. Linn
What’s Wrong with the Christian Right - Jan G. Linn
The Death of Expertise -Tom Nichols
Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence - Daniel J. Siegel, MD
Piloting Church - Cameron Trimble
Shrink - Tim Suttle
Immigrant Theology: A Quest for Relationship - Job J. Cobos
Hacking Darwin - Jamie Metzl
Accidental Saints - Nadia Bolz-Weber
Right Here Right Now - Amy G. Oden
Poetry
The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry
What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center - Mary Oliver
The Opening of Eyes - David Whyte
Logos - Mary Oliver
Children
Pre-Readers (Ages 6 & under)
Princess Grace - Mary Hoffman
Amazing Grace - Mary Hoffman
Boundless Grace - Mary Hoffman
Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct - Mo Willems
Should I Share My Ice Cream? - Mo Willems
Can I Play Too? - Mo Willems
Waiting Is Not Easy! - Mo Willems
A Big Guy Took My Ball! - Mo Willems
The Thank You Book - Mo Willems
My Friend is Sad - Mo Willems
When God Make You - Matthew Paul Turner
Chapter Books (Ages 6-8)
Parker Looks Up - Parker & Jessica Curry
A Boy Called Bat - Elana K. Arnold
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo - Jill Twiss
Just Like Me - Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Earth Hour: A Lights-Out Event for Our Planet - Nanette Heffernan
Dictionary for a Better World - Irene Latham & Charles Waters
Born Curious - Martha Freeman
I Am Enough - Grace Byers
Stella Diaz Never Gives Up - Angela Dominguez
Good Night Stories with Rebel Girls - Francesco Cavallo & Elena Favilli
‘Ohana Means Family - Ilima Loomis
Middle Grade Books (Ages 8-12)
Rules - Cynthia Lord
Anything But Typical - Nora Raleigh Baskin
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
Elijah of Buxton - Christopher Paul Curtis
Fish in a Tree - Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Can I Touch Your Hair? - Irene Latham & Charles Waters
Brave. Black. First. - Cheryl Willis Hudson
Farah Rocks 5th Grade - Susan Muaddi Darraj
Who Did It First? - Julie Leung
Young Adult (Ages 12 & up)
Not So Pure and Simple - L. R. Giles
Better with Books - Melissa Hart
Wonder - R. J. Palacio
Blended - Sharon M Draper
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
Restart - Gordon Korman
Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes
Every Last Word - Tamara Ireland Stone
All the Invisible Things - Orlagh Collins
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children - Kirstin Cronn-Mills
