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Faithful Readers: Past Books

Books and stories read in St. Paul’s literature group since 1997

  • A Green Journey—Jon Hassler
  • Beloved—Toni Morrison
  • Therapy—David Lodge
  • The Power and the Glory—Graham Greene
  • The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe—C.S. Lewis
  • The Screwtape Letters—C.S. Lewis
  • Sophie’s Choice—William Styron
  • The Second Coming—Walker Percy
  • The Plague—Albert Camus
  • In the Beauty of the Lilies—John Updike
  • The Sound and the Fury—William Faulkner
  • Stones from the River—Ursula Hegi
  • Mere Morality—Lewis Smedes
  • Traveling Mercies—Anne Lamott
  • The End of the Affair—Graham Greene
  • The Sunflower—Simon Wiesenthal
  • Things Fall Apart—Chinua Achebe
  • Mr. Ives’ Christmas—Oscar Hijuelos
  • A Burnt Out Case—Graham Greene
  • Dawn—Elie Wiesel
  • Night—Elie Wiesel
  • The Poisonwood Bible—Barbara Kingsolver
  • Virgin Time—Patricia Hampl
  • Postville: Clash of Cultures—Stephen Bloom
  • Listening for God—volumes 1, 2, 3, and 4, edited by Carlson and Hawkins
  • A Celestial Omnibus: Short Fiction on Faith—edited by J.P. Maney and Tom Hazuka
  • Son of Laughter—Frederick Buechner
  • How to Be Good—Nick Hornsby
  • The Hiding Place—Corrie Ten Boom
  • The Fixer—Bernard Malamud
  • Jayber Crow—Wendell Berry
  • Gilead—Marilynne Robinson
  • Martin Luther—Martin Marty
  • Cry the Beloved Country—Alan Paton
  • The Tempest—William Shakespeare
  • Motherland—Fern Schumer Chapman
  • Empire Falls—Richard Russo
  • Life of Pi—Yann Martel
  • The New Woman—Jon Hassler
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World—Tracy Kidder
  • In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer—Irene Gut Opkyke
  • Morte D’Urban —J.F. Powers
  • Brendan—Frederick Buechner
  • Love Medicine—Louise Erdrich
  • What Are People For?—Wendell Berry (part 3 only)
  • A World Lost—Wendell Berry
  • Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel: Growing Up Under the Third Reich—Gunda Davis
  • The Best Christian Short Stories—edited by Bret Lott
  • The Madhouse Nudes—Robert Schultz
  • A Song for Nettie Johnson—Gloria Sawai
  • The Book of the Dun Cow—Walt Wangerin, Jr.
  • Warriors Don’t Cry—Melba Pattillo Beals
  • Maus I—Art Spiegelman

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