Book Club Resources
Are you in a book club? Looking for some recommendations? Below are a few books by Festival authors that you might want to consider, along with links to some online reading guides.
General Fiction
Sefi Atta: Everything Good Will Come
Elizabeth Berg: Durable Goods, We All Are Welcome Here, Open House
Mischa Berlinski: Fieldwork
Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Diane Glancy: Stone Heart
Mary Gordon: Pearl
Olga Grushin: The Dream Life of Sukhanov
Ingrid Hill: Ursula, Under
Eric Jager: The Last Duel
Edward P. Jones: The Known World
Haven Kimmel: Something Rising
Yann Martel: Life of Pi
Shauna Niequist: Cold Tangerines
Elizabeth Strout: Abide with Me
Krista Tippett: Speaking of Faith-Why Religion Matters and How to Talk About It
Brady Udall: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Helena Maria Viramontes: At the Feet of Jesus, Their Dogs Came With Them
Christian Fiction
Davis Bunn: The Book of Hours, Imposter, The Lazarus Trap
Francine Rivers: Redeeming Love
James Schaap: Touches the Sky, Romey's Place
Young Adult Fiction
Joan Bauer: Hope Was Here, Backwater, Rules of the Road
Katherine Paterson: Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved
Memoir
Scott Cairns: Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage
Carlos Eire: Waiting for Snow in Havana
Mary Gordon: The Shadow Man
Mary Karr: The Liars' Club
Haven Kimmel: A Girl Named Zippy
Jon Sweeney: Born Again and Again
Phyllis Tickle: The Shaping of a Life
Non-Fiction
Brian Doyle: The Wet Engine
Ed Gilbreath: Reconciliation Blues
Alan Jacobs: The Narnian
Charles Marsh: God's Long Summer
Kathleen Norris: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography , The Cloister Walk
Dan Taylor: In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands.
Paul Willis: Bright Shoots of Everlastingness: Essays on Faith and the American Wild
Graphic Novel
Kevin Huizenga: Curses
Other
Scott Cairns: "September 11" (A poem from his collection entitled Compass of Affection.)
Hugh Cook: "Miss Morley's Parrot: Reflections on Religion, Immigration, & Writing" (An essay published in the Image Journal.)