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If you need multiple copies of a title not on this list, let us know. We would be happy to help you get them through interlibrary loan, or we might even order them for our own collection, if we think other churches and groups will be interested too.

We are always available to discuss the suitability of particular titles for your book discussion group. Length, theme, content, and theological orientation are some of the factors to consider when choosing a work of fiction or nonfiction.

One website that is useful when considering books and preparing discussion questions is ReadingGroupGuides.com, and there are many other similar sites on the Web.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong

Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino

Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne

The Celtic Way of Prayer by Esther De Waal

Christ of the Celts by J. Philip Newell

Christianity for the Rest of Us by Diana Butler Bass

Dandelions in a Jelly Jar by Traci DePree

Dating Jesus by Susan Campbell

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

Encounters with Jesus by Frances Taylor Gench

Even Now by Susan Kelly

The Faith Club by R. Idliby, S. Oliver, P. Warner

The First Christmas by Marcus Borg

Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Four Letters of Love by Naill Williams

Friendship Cake by Lynne Hinton

Full Cupboard of Life by Andrew McCall Smith

Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner

Good Book by Peter Gomes

The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle

Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg

Hidden Places by Lynn Austin

History of Love by Nicole Kraus

Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

How Close We Come by Susan Kelly

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods

If God is Love by P. Gulley and J. Mulholland

If Grace is True by P. Gulley and J. Mulholland

Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Innocent Wisdom by Joanne Taylor

Jesus by Marcus Borg

Jesus I never Knew by Philip Yancey

Just Shy of Harmony by Philip Gulley

Kalahari Typing School for Men by Alexander McCall Smith

Last Week by Marcus Borg

Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor

The Lord is My Shepherd by Rabbi Harold Kushner

Lying Awake by Mark Salzman

Mark for Everyone by N. T. Wright

Meaning of Jesus by Marcus Borg and N. T. Wright

Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

Milk Glass Moon Adriana Trigiani

Morality for Beautiful Girls by Andrew McCall Smith

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time by Karen Armstrong

No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Andrew McCall Smith

Paul by A. N. Wilson

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Radical Gratitude by Beatrice Bruteau

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall

Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shack by William P. Young

Snow Flower and the Fan by Lisa See

Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett

Speaking of Sin by Barbara Brown Taylor

Tears of the Giraffe by Andrew McCall Smith

There is a Wideness by Mark McAllister

Three Cups of Tea by Andrew Mortenson

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

What Jesus Meant by Gary Wills

When Jesus Become God by Richard Rubenstein

Whose Bible Is It? by Jaroslav Pelikan

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell

Worship by Evelyn Underhill

The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs

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