'Books Fall Open, You Fall In,' copyright Mary Englebreit Enterprises

Book Suggestions
from our Members

I have not read most of these. Keep sending suggestions, I will post more soon.
If you participate in this book discussion and read one of these on your own, let me know if you think we should discuss it. I welcome your comments and suggestions; if you have time, make sure the books you suggest are still in print.


The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them. by E.D. Hirsch,

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art by Madeleine L'Engle

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton.

Katharina Von Bora: A Reformation Life by Markwald & Markwald, 256p.

Wendell Berry:

Isn't It Romantic? by Ron Hansen, a screwball romantic comedy by the author of Atticus.

Janet B. says "I'm enjoying Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon, set in Venice, with Commisario Guido Brunetti, a police detective, the main character. Leon has good plots with neat characters and refreshingly writes without profanity or gratuitous sex or violence.

Isn't It Romantic? An Entertainment, a light comedy by Ron Hansen.

Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires, the Respect He Desperately Needs by Emerson Eggerichs

How to Read a Book by Adler

Three suggestions from World Magazine's "100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century:"

Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith "If Miss Marple were fat and jolly and lived in Botswana…" says Amazon.com.

All God's Ghildren & Blue Suede Shoes by Ken Myers

The Silence of Adam by Dr Larry Crab

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul by John Eldredge

Notes from the Underground, by Dostoyevsky

It Takes a Parent by Betsy Hart

AS Byatt:

Poppa John by Larry Woiwode

Mariette in Ecstacy by Ron Hansen

Creed or Chaos by Dorothy Sayers

Brick Lane by Monica Ali --The story of Bangladeshi girl, whose parents arrange her marriage to a Bengali immigrant living in London.

Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith. (American wife of a British colonial official tells of self & family imprisoned at a Japanese POW camp in WWII)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

My Family & Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

 

Please e-mail me corrections and omissions.

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Updated 2/2/07.