Slightly Bookish: January 2017

Monday, January 16, 2017

Book Club

Book Club is tomorrow night at 7 pm at Debby's house. We are discussing The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.

Sarah Gravelle will be leading our book discussion. Hope to see you there. Even if you haven't read the book you are welcome to join us.

For our February book choice, Dari has chosen The Orphan Keeper by Jason Wright.

Book Suggestions for Future Reads

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Cheers to Eternity by Al and Ben Carraway
The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts by Charity Tillemann-Dick
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Lincoln's Hypothesis by Timothy Ballard
The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer

Books We've Read

Refugee by Alan Gratz
Letters From Rifka by Karen Hesse
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
Front Desk by Kelly Yang
Girl Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Educated by Tara Westover
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk by Kelli Estes
Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling by Richard Lyman Bushman
That We May Be One: A Gay Mormon's Perspective On Faith and Family by Tom Christofferson
Dad Is Fat by Jim Gaffigan
Here's How to Reach Me: Matching Personality Types in Your Classroom by Judith Pauley and Dianne Bradley
Beyond the Blue by Leslie Gould
Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David Anderson
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meisner
The Orphan Keeper by Cameron Wright
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Mourning Dove by Larry Barkdull
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
What Alice Forgot by Lianne Moriarty
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
The Moon-Spinners by Mary Stewart
My Anotnia by Willa Cather
Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes
My Name Used To Be Muhammad by Jeff Benedict and Tito Momen
The Boys In The Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright
The Prodigal Son by Alison Palmer
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
What Would A Holy Woman Do? by Wendy Watson Nelson
The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America by Michael Yankoski
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Mrs. Mike by Benedict & Nancy Freedman
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Cross Gardener by Jason F. Wright
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
The Light Between Oceans by: M. L. Stedman
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
When the Storm Passes by Julie Jett
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Coming Back Stronger by Drew Brees
The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
My Story by Elizabeth Smart
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh