The LWCC Book Club is an informal
gathering of people interested in expanding their horizons by reading. Unlike
most other book clubs, we are choosing primarily non-fiction books.
Next Book & Meeting:
Our next book and meeting will be:
- Place and Date: March 14 at 7:00 PM at Toni's (Call the office for
directions.)
- Book for discussion: "The Dressmaker of Khair Khana" by Gayle
Tzemach Lemmon.
New members are always welcome! Contact the church
office for more information.
Past Books:
We have read so many interesting books! Here's a list of what we
have read:
-
"Thunderstruck" by Erik Larson
-
"Mark Twain: A Life" by Ron Powers
-
"Outliers: The Story of
Success" by Malcolm Gladwell
-
"Birdology"
by Sy Montgomery
-
"Plan B" by Anne Lamott
"Jesus Freak" by Sarah Miles
- "The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw
"Seeds
of deception: exposing industry and government lies about the safety
of the genetically engineered foods you're eating" by Jeffrey M. Smith
"River
of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey" by Candice Millard
- "Bulletproof Faith" by Candace Chellew-Hodge
- "Modoc : the true story of the greatest elephant that ever lived"
by Ralph Helfer
"Dry
storeroom no. 1: the secret life of the Natural History Museum" by Richard
Fortey
- "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely
- "Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada" by Will
Ferguson
A
book on Seattle's history -- your choosing.
"The
sharper your knife, the less you cry" by Kathleen Flinn
- "A wing and a prayer" by Katharine Jefferts Schori
"If
you lived here, I'd know your name" by Heather Lende
- "A Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion
- "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
- "After Long Silence" by Helen Fremont
- "Dancing at the Rascal Fair" by Ivan Doig
- "The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals" by Michael
Pollan
- "The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and
the making of the Oxford English dictionary" by Simon Winchester
- "American Jesus: how the Son of God became a national icon" by Stephen
Prothero
"Freakonomics:
a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything" by Steven
D. Levitt
- "Winter brothers: a season at the edge of America" by Ivan Doig
- "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
- "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder
- "Touching my father's soul: a Sherpa's journey to the top of Everest"
by Jamling Tenzing Norgay
- "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis" by Jimmy Carter
"Blink:
the power of thinking without thinking" by Malcolm Gladwell
- "Bait and Switch" by Barbara Ehrenreich
- "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown
- "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson
- "Skipping Christmas" by John Grisham
- "Reading Lolita in Tehran" by Azar Nafisi
"The
Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
- "Finding Darwin’s God" by Kenneth Miller
- "It's More Than The Music: life lessons on friends, faith, and what
matters most" by Bill Gaither
- "Heart full of lies: a true story of desire and death" by Ann Rule
- "Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game" by Michael Lewis
- "Under The Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer
- "Circle of Simplicity" by Cecile Andrews
"Touching
the Void" by Joe Simpson
- "Absolute Friends" by John Le Carre
"Naked
in Baghdad" by Anne Garrels
- "The Opposite of Fate: a book of musings" by Amy Tan
- "Walking the Bible: a journey by land through the five books of
Moses" by Bruce Feiler
"The
Color of Water: a black man's tribute to his white mother" by James
McBride
- "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky
- "All Over but the Shoutin'" by Rick Bragg
- "The Battle for God" by Karen Armstrong
- "Who in hell is Wanda Fuca?" by G.M. Ford
"Cuba
Diaries: an American housewife in Havana" by Isadora Tattlin
- "The Pact: three young men make a promise and fulfill a dream" by
Samson Davis
- "A River Lost: the life and death of the Columbia" by Blaine Harden
" Haven:
The Dramatic Story of 1,000 WWII Refugees and How They Came to America"
by Ruth Gruber
"Tender
at the Bone" by Ruth Reichl
"The
Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" by Michael Pollan
- "Personal History" by Katherine Graham
- "No More Words" by Reeve Lindberg
- "Aging with Grace" by David Snoden
- "The Founding Brothers" by Joseph J. Ellis
"The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman
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