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: TBA at 7:00 PM at TBA.
- Book for discussion: TBA - Send your suggestion for our next read to
Vicki.
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:
- "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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Favorites