Book Club Resources

Are you in a book club? Are you 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.

Leila Aboulela
The Translator
Lyrics Alley

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Purple Hibiscus
Half of a Yellow Sun

Amy Julia Becker
A Good and Perfect Gift

Kate Braestrup
Here if You Need Me

Kevin Brockmeier
The Illumination

Lan Samantha Chang
Inheritance

Shane Claiborne
Irresistible Revolution

Debra Dean
The Madonnas of Leningrad

Tony Earley
Jim the Boy
The Blue Star

Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

River Jordan
Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit

Bethany Pierce
Amy Inspired     
Feeling for Bones

Jana Riess
Flunking Sainthood

Marilynne Robinson
Gilead 

Adam Schuitema
Freshwater Boys

Judith Shulevitz
The Sabbath World

Craig Thompson
Blankets

Luis Alberto Urrea
The Devil’s Highway
The Hummingbird’s Daughter

Carey Wallace
The Blind Contessa's New Machine

Walter Wangerin
The Book of God
The Book of the Dun Cow