Book list from/for the book club
The book discussion’s group yearly planning meeting was held this morning. A lot of good books were suggested for consideration to be included in the program. See the full list below, out of which nine will be selected to be read by the group. You can of course read any or all of them independently from what we will read together. (Clicking the book titles will take you to the books’ pages at Amazon.com.)
- Maggie Anton: Rashi’s daughters: Joheved
- Amy Bloom: Away
- Jenna Blum: Those who save us
- Geraldine Brooks: People of the book
- Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV: The art of happiness at work
- Irene Dische: The Empress of Weehawken
- Thomas L. Friedman: The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century
- Dara Horn: The world to come
- Lily Koppel: The red leather diary: reclaiming a life through the pages of a lost journal
- Aaron Lansky: Outwitting history: the amazing adventures of a man who rescued a million Yiddish books
- Sarah LeVine: The Saint of Kathmandu: and other tales of the sacred in distant lands
- Kanan Makiya: The rock: a tale of seventh-century Jerusalem
- David G. McCullough: Truman
- Claire Messud: The last life
- John Miller (ed): San Francisco stories: great writers on the city
- Greg Mortenson: Three cups of tea: one man’s mission to fight terrorism and build nations– one school at a time
- Barack Obama: Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance
- Michael B. Oren: Power, faith, and fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present
- Frank Rich: Ghost light: a memoir
- Ariel Sabar: My father’s paradise: a son’s search for his Jewish past in Kurdish Iraq
- Moacyr Scliar: The centaur in the garden
- Meir Shalev: A pigeon and a boy
- Dalia Sofer: The Septembers of Shiraz
- Josh Swiller: The unheard: a memoir of deafness and Africa
- Jeffrey Toobin: The nine: inside the secret world of the Supreme Court
- Wendy Wasserstein: Shiksa goddess: or, how I spent my forties
- Tamar Yellin: The genizah at the house of Shepher
- Markus Zusak: The book thief
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