Books We've Enjoyed: Rainy Day Readers Book List
July 18, 2024, 12:00 AM

List of Rainy Day Readers books (St. Paul’s Church)

Established, December 2nd, 2014

 

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman

A Story Like the Wind, Laurens Van Der Post

A Tale For the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Rachel Held Evans

All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr

An Unfinished Love Story, Doris Kerns Goodwin

At the Water’s Edge, Sara Gruen

Becoming, Michelle Obama

Born A Crime, Trevor Noah

Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown

Cutting For Stone, Abraham Verghese

Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, Nina Tottenberg

Educated, Tara Westover

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly

Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance

Historical Travels Through Sonoma County, John Crevelli (TBA)

Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, Kristin Kobes du Mez

Jim, Percival Everett

Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus

Lying Awake, Mark Salzman

News of the World, Paulette Jiles

Our Southern Home, Waights Taylor Jr.

Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen

Polio & Me, Ken Dalton

Remarkably Bright Breatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Sense & Sensibility, Jane Austen

So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

Sunflowers, Sheramy Bundrick

Tattoos on the Heart, Greg Boyle

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

The Awakened Brain, Lisa Miller, PhD

The Book of Hope, Dr. Jane Goodall

The Book of Joy, Bishop Desmond Tutu & the Dalai Lama

The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Kim Michele Richardson

The Dearly Beloved, Cara Wall

The Dog That Talked to God, Jim Kraus

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride

The Last Bus to Wisdom, Ivan Doig

The Lemon Tree, Sandy Tolan

The Library Book, Susan Orlean

The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

The Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler

The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray

The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene

The Reason I Jump, Naoki Higashida

The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery

The Woman Behind the Collar, Joy Carroll Wallis

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Under the Overpass : A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America, by Mike Yankowski

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

Zealot, Reza Aslan

 

 

Updated on September 11, 2024