Books we've read in book club: Nonfiction

BIOGRAPHY

  • A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle by Sarah Arthur
    Pub. 2018 | Read November 2020

CHRISTIAN

  • Art and Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimura
    Pub. 2021 | Read June 2021

  • The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and Women’s Work by Kathleen Norris
    Pub. 1998 | Read July 2016

ESSAYS

  • Girlhood by Melisssa Febos
    Pub. 2021 | Read September 2025

  • Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
    Pub. 2022 | Read January 2023

  • The New Kings of Nonfiction edited by Ira Glass
    Pub. 2007 | Read February 2019

GRAPHIC NOVELS

  • The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
    Memoir, history | Pub. 2017 | Read ? (discussion was at Sarah’s house)

HEALTH/MENTAL HEALTH

  • The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living by Hilary L. McBride
    Pub. 2021 | Read February 2024

HISTORY

  • The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
    Pub. 2019 | Read February 2022

  • Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan
    Pub. 2019 | Read June 2020

HUMOR

  • Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
    Pub. 2004 | Read March 2018

MEMOIR

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
    Pub. 2015 | Read February 2020

  • Easy Beauty by Chloe Cooper Jones
    Pub. 2022 | Read October 2023

  • Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
    Pub. 2009 | Read May 2017

  • My Life in France by Julia Child
    Pub. 2006 | Read July 2017

POETRY

  • 1919 by Eve L. Ewing
    Pub. 2019 | Read August 2020

SCIENCE

  • Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green Pub. 2025 | Read May 2025

SOCIAL JUSTICE

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
    Pub. 2014 | Read ? (discussion was at Renae’s house)

TOPIC: ENNEAGRAM

  • Choose your own book
    e.g., The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Ian Morgan Cron
    Pub. 2016 | August 2017? (discussion was at Emily’s house)

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