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RecommendedReading

Find yourself longing to read all the Festival authors but short on time? If you have time to read only one or two books by a particular Festival 2010 presenter, here is what we recommend.

Vito Aiuto Self-Portrait as Jerry Quarry
Kazim Ali The Far Mosque
Roy Anker Catching Light: Looking for God in the Movies
Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Debbie Blue Sensual Orthodoxy
Tonya Bolden George Washington Carver
Scott Cairns Short Trip to the Edge
Philokalia
Stephen Carter Palace Council
The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion
Hugh Cook Cracked Wheat and Other Stories
Kathryn Davis The Thin Place
Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux
Ed Dobson The Year Living Like Jesus: My Journey of Discovering What Jesus Would Really Do
Lawrence Dorr A Bearer of Divine Revelation
Sharon Flake The Skin I'm In
Donna Freitas The Possibilities of Sainthood
Olga Grushin The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Jenny Han The Summer I Turned Pretty
Dara Horn In the Image
Fanny Howe The Winter Sun
The Lyrics
Joshilyn Jackson Gods in Alabama
Rhoda Janzen Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Stephanie Kallos Broken for You
Mary Karr Lit: A Memoir
Joe Kickasola The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image
L.S. Klatt Interloper
Wally Lamb The Hour I First Believed
John Leax Grace Is Where I Live
Tabloid News
E. B. Lewis

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Coming on Home Soon

Sally Lloyd-Jones Jesus Storybook Bible
Thomas Lynch The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Peter Manseau Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Relics
Sara Miles Take This Bread
Kathleen Dean Moore Holdfast: At Home in a Natural World
David and Diane Munson The Camelot Conspiracy
Barbara Nicolosi Behind the Screen: Hollywood Insiders on Faith, Film, and Culture
Parker Palmer A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
Christa Parrish Watch Over Me
Michael Perry Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Eugene Peterson Tell It Slant
Richard Rodriguez Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Matt Ruff Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls
Lisa Samson Embrace Me
Scott Russell Sanders A Conservationist Manifesto
James Schaap Touches the Sky
Luci Shaw The Crime of Living Cautiously
What the Light Was Like
Robert Siegel A Pentecost of Finches
Tim Stafford Knowing the Face of God
Daniel Taylor Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories
Brady Udall The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
John Edgar Wideman

Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society
Brothers and Keepers

Rudy Wiebe

Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest
Peace Shall Destroy Many

Paul Willis Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild
Christian Wiman Ambition and Survival
The Long Home
Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese
Kevin Young Jelly Roll
Sara Zarr Story of a Girl

If you are in the Grand Rapids area, The Hekman Library on Calvin's campus has numerous books available by Festival 2010 speakers.