Featured Reading

Great Books for Hard Times Series

Session One: Why Books? Why Now? and Why Paper?

Featured Titles:

  • The Shallows
  • The World Beyond Your Head
  • The Enchanted Hour
  • Oryx and Crake
  • The Book Thief
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Name of the Rose
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
  • People of the Book
  • The Little Paris Bookshop
  • The Children’s Book
  • The Abolition of Man

Session Two: In Search of "the Cure" ... Racism and Lesser Pandemics

Featured Titles: 

  • Blood Done Sign My Name
  • Same Kind of Different as Me
  • Just Mercy
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Roll of Thunder
  • Hear My Cry
  • Things Fall Apart
  • There is No Me Without You
  • Tattoos on the Heart
  • The Cross and the Switchblade
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers
  • All the Light We Cannot See
  • Christ of the Indian Road

Session Three: Some Survival Tips for Sheltering in Place

Featured Titles:

  • The Hiding Place
  • Born Again
  • The Breadwinner
  • Toujours Provence
  • A Passage to India
  • The Joy Luck Club
  •  The Art of Eating
  • Home Cooking
  • The Best Cook in the World
  • The Food of a Younger Land
  • Kisses from Katie

Session Four: Signs of End Times?

Featured Titles:

  •  The Fall of the House of Usher
  • 1984
  • Brave New World
  • Animal Farm
  • The Lord of the Flies
  • On the Beach
  • The Crucible
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  •  The Handmaid’s Tale
  • The Hunger Games
  • The Giver
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • Night
  • Man’s Search for Meaning
  • The Screwtape Letters

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