First United Methodist Church - Lancaster Pa

Engaging, Inspirational, Multigenerational

Monthly Book Club Archive

Below is a listing of books previously read and discussed by our monthly book club. We strongly encourage you to read any of the titles listed and to provide suggestions for books to read in the future. Enjoy!

2008

Jan                   The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – twins raised separately,

                                     family secrets

Feb                   Amish Grace by Donald Kraybill - forgiveness

March               A Thousand Splendid Suns - Afghanistan

April                  Night by Elie Wiesel - Holocaust

May                  The Color of Water:  A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother

                                    by James McBride – importance of family

June                 Religious Literacy:  What Every American Needs to Know - and Doesn't

                                    by Stephen Prothero

July                  Shack by William P. Young  

Aug                  Infidel  by Ayaan Hirsi Ali  - A Muslim Woman       

Sept                 The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey – hunting and       

                        forgiveness

Oct                   Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Linda See – 19th century China

Nov                   The Book of Ruth by Carolyn Curtis Jones – Ruth of the Bible

Dec                  The Christmas Quilt by Thomas J. Davis

 

2007

March               Praising the God of Grace by Charles Yrigoyen- Charles Wesley

April                  Name All the Animals:  A Memoir  by Allison Smith - lose of faith

May                  Waiting for Snow in Havanna:  Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos

                         Eire

June                 Book Club Did Not Meet

July                  Gilead by Marilynn Robinson

Aug                  River Rising by Athol Dickson - Louisana

Sept                 The Road to Home by Vanessa De Fabbo – South Africa

Oct                   90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper 

Nov                   End of the Spear by Steve Saint – missionaries in Ecuador

Dec                  Christmas Jars by Jason Wright