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
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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
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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
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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
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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)