Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:27:18 -0700WeeblyFri, 02 Sep 2022 19:55:18 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2022-reading-list1. The Good Shufu (Tracy Slater)
2. The Invisible City (Julia Dahl)
3. Cost of Living (Emily Maloney)
4. Run You Down (Julia Dahl)
5. Black Buck (Mateo Askaripour)
6. Ordinary Girls (Jaquira Diaz)
7. The Violin Conspiracy (Brendan Slocumb)
8. Conviction (Julia Dahl)
9. The Undocumented Americans (Karla Cornejo Villavicencio)
10. Beautiful World, Where Are You? (Sally Rooney)
11. I Feel Bad About My Neck (Nora Ephron)
12. Apples Never Fall (Liane Moriarty)
13. Letter to a young female physician: Notes from a Medical Life (Suzanne Koven)
14. Chemistry (Weike Wang)
15. American Seoul (Helena Rho)
16. No Apparent Distress (Rachel Pearson)
17. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (Kate Racculia)
18. The Rose Code (Kate Quinn)
19. Committed (Adam Stern)
20. Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
21. The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (Marianne Cronin)
22. The Alice Network (Kate Quinn)
23. I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet (Shauna Niequist)
24. The Book of Lost Friends (Lisa Wingate)
25. Malibu Rising (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
26. The Paper Palace (Miranda Cowley Heller)
27. Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel)
28. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman)
29. Faye, Faraway (Helen Fisher)
30. Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)
31. Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
32. What You're Really Meant to Do (Robert Steven Kaplan)
33. The Sweetness of Water (Nathan Harris)
34. The Vanishing Type (Ellery Adams)
35. The Secret, Book & Scone Society (Ellery Adams)
36. This Time Tomorrow (Emma Straub)
37. Yellow Bird (Sierra Crane Murdoch)
38. The Whispered Word (Ellery Adams)
39. The Book of Candlelight (Ellery Adams)
40. Ink and Shadows (Ellery Adams)
41. These Precious Days (Ann Patchett)
42. Gentle and Lowly (Dane Ortlund)
43. The Girl with the Louding Voice (Abi Dare)
]]>Sun, 22 Aug 2021 07:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2021-reading-list1. Lit (Mary Karr)
2. Disappearing Earth (Julia Phillips)
3. Circe (Madeline Miller)
4. Fatty Legs (Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton)
5. A Stranger at Home (Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton)
6. Love Poems (for Married People) (John Kenney)
7. The Sticky Faith Guide for Your Family (Dr. Kara E. Powell)
8. The Searcher (Tana French)
9. Sticky Faith (Dr. Kara E. Powell & Dr. Chap Clark)
10. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Hope Jahren)
11. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor)
12. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Greg Lukanoff and Jonathan Haidt)
13. Such a Fun Age (Kiley Reid)
14. Raising White Kids (Jennifer Harvey)
15. Red at the Bone (Jacqueline Woodson)
16. Normal People (Sally Rooney)
17. Everything Sad is Untrue (Daniel Nayeri)
18. The Kindest Lie (Nancy Johnson)
19. The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
20. Parachutes (Kelly Yang)
21. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
22. The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
23. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom (Lisa Delpit)
24. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (John Mark Comer)
25. We Ride Upon Sticks (Quan Barry)
26. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue (V.E. Schwab)
27. The Hypnotist's Love Story (Liane Moriarty)
28. A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman)
29. Little Fires Everywhere (Celeste Ng)
30. Men We Reaped (Jesmyn Ward)
31. The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
32. Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Mark Sullivan)
33. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
34. Paris: A Love Story (Kati Marton)
35. The Beauty in Breaking (Michelle Harper)
36: Code Talker (Chester Nez)
37. Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty)
38. Afterlife (Julia Alvarez)
39. Intimacies (Katie Kitamura)
40. Wonder (R.J. Palacio)
41. Good Apple: Tales of a Southern Evangelical in New York (Elizabeth Passarella)
42. Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
43. The House in the Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune)
44. Crying in H Mart (Michelle Zauner)
45. Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
46. There, There (Tommy Orange)
47. We Are Not Like Them (Christine Pride & Jo Piazza)
48. Shoutin' in the Fire (Dante Stewart)
49. This is Going to Hurt (Adam Kay)
]]>Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2020-reading-list1. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver (Jill Heinerth)
2. Love Warrior (Glennon Doyle Merton)
3. Old Baggage (Lissa Evans)
4. Girl, Wash Your Face (Rachel Hollis)
5. Searching for Sunday (Rachel Held Evans)
6. Genesis
7. Exodus
8. Joy (Victoria Christopher Murray)
9. Teach Us To Pray (Gordon T. Smith)
10. Wild Game (Adrienne Brodeur)
11. Leviticus
12. The Nickel Boys (Colson Whitehead)
13. Numbers
14. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change (Ellen Pao)
15. Maid (Stephanie Land)
16. Deuteronomy
17. Joshua
18. Writers & Lovers (Lily King)
19. Help Thanks Wow (Anne Lamott)
20. Judges
21. The Distance Between Us (Reyna Grande)
22. Ruth
23. Elephant Secret (Eric Walters)
24. I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
25. The Leftovers (Tom Perrotta)
26. 1 Samuel
27. Room (Emma Donoghue)
28. Born Again This Way (Rachel Gilson)
29. What We Carry (Maya Lang)
30. Wildland (Rebecca Hodge)
31. Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter)
32. Dear Mrs. Bird (AJ Pearce)
33. Nothing is Forgotten (Peter Golden)
34. The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
35. A Dream Called Home (Reyna Grande)
36. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
37. The Water Dancer (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
38. If Oceans Were Ink (Carla Power)
39. The Situation and the Story (Vivian Gornick)
40. 2 Samuel
41. Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem (Bradley Jersak)
42. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
43. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (John Boyne)
44. Ecclesiastes
45. Song of Songs
46. Heads of the Colored People (Nafissa Thompson-Spires)
47. The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)
48. The Art of Memoir (Mary Karr)
49. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Ibram X. Kendi)
50. Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge (Mark Batterson)
51. The Giver of Stars (Jojo Moyes)
52. Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence (Gregory A. Boyd)
53. 1 Kings
54. The Lemon Tree (Sandy Tolan)
55. Tattoos on the Heart (Gregory Boyle)
56. Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
57. Be the Bridge (Latasha Morrison)
58. Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
59. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
60. Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
61. Barron's Puppy Training for Kids (Colleen Pelar)
62. The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Puppy (Victoria Stilwell)
63. Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg)
64. Winter Street (Elin Hilderbrand)
65. Emily of New Moon (L.M. Montgomery)
66. The Duke Who Didn't (Courtney Milan)
67. Blackout (Sarah Hepola)
68. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (T. Kira Madden)
]]>Sun, 29 Dec 2019 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2019-reading-list1. We Were the Lucky Ones (Georgia Hunter)
2. Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)
3. Endurance (Scott Kelly)
4. Homecoming (Cynthia Voigt)
5. The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (Roald Dahl)
6. Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
7. Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
8. Boy (Roald Dahl)
9. Homesick: My Own Story (Jean Fritz)
10. My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
11. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor)
12. Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
13. Another Brooklyn (Jacqueline Woodson)
14. Skeletons on the Zahara (Dean King)
15. Reconstruction: A Concise History (Allen C. Guelzo)
16. The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Muriel Barbery)
17. Educated (Tara Westover)
18. Marilla of Green Gables (Sarah McCoy)
19. In the Heart of the Sea (Nathaniel Philbrick)
20. The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
21. Daring Greatly (Brene Brown)
22. How to Hear God's Voice (Mark & Patti Virkler)
23. Speaking of Jesus (Carl Medearis)
24, The House of God (Samuel Shem)
25. The Leavers (Lisa Ko)
26. Becoming (Michelle Obama)
27. Choosing Gratitude (Nancy Leigh DeMoss)
28. Liturgy of the Ordinary (Tish Harrison Warren)
29. The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
30. Tumtum and Nutmeg: Adventures Beyond Nutmouse Hall (Emily Bearn)
31. Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)
32. A Place for Us (Fatima Farheen Mirza)
33. Devotion (Dani Shapiro)
34. Heating & Cooling (Beth Ann Fennelly)
35. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion (Rebecca McLaughlin)
36. The Library Book (Susan Orlean)
37. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (Michael Finkel)
38. Girl in Black and White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams and the Abolition Movement (Jessie Morgan-Owens)
39. Miracle Creek (Angie Kim)
40. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottleib)
41. Class Mom (Laurie Gelman)
42. The Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell)
43. Mating in Captivity (Esther Perel)
44. Fleishman is in Trouble (Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
45. The Great Believers (Rebecca Makkai)
46. The First Adventure, from Alanna: Song of the Lioness (Tamora Pierce)
47. The High Shelf (Nadia Colburn)
48. Boundaries for Your Soul (Alison Cook and Kimberly Miller)
49. In The Hand of the Goddess, from Alanna: Song of the Lioness (Tamora Pierce)
50. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, from Alanna: Song of the Lioness (Tamora Pierce)
51. The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World (Melinda Gates)
52. Cherokee America (Margaret Verble)
53. Lioness Rampant, from Alanna: Song of the Lioness (Tamora Pierce)
54. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine (Gail Honeyman)
55. You've Been Volunteered (Laurie Gelman)
56. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (James Forman Jr.)
57. The Confidence Code (Katty Kay & Claire Shipman)
58. The Prodigal God (Tim Keller)
59. Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
]]>Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2018-reading-list1. The Little Paris Bookshop (Nina George)
2. Eligible (Curtis Sittenfeld)
3. Say Goodbye to Whining (Turansky and Miller)
4. American Wife (Curtis Sittenfeld)
5. Days Without End (Sebastian Barry)
6. The Power (Naomi Alderman)
7. Difficult Women (Roxanne Gay) (only up to page 82)
8. Killers of the Flower Moon (David Grann)
9. Flight Behavior (Barbara Kingsolver)
10. Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
11. Little Dog, Lost (Marion Dane Bauer)
12. Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Caroline Fraser)
13. Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
14. The Bait of Satan (John Bevere)
15. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind (Barbara K. Lipska)
16. Saints for all Occasions (J. Courtney Sullivan)
17. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
18. Siblings Without Rivalry (Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish)
19. Tribe (Sebastian Junger)
20. Pachinko (Min Jin Lee)
21. Beyond Colorblind (Sarah Shin)
22. Sourdough (Robin Sloan)
23. Lilac Girls (Martha Hall Kelly)
24. Everything Here is Beautiful (Mira T. Lee)
25. Barracoon (Zora Neale Hurston)
26. The Cloister (James Carroll)
27. The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
28. The Little Virtues (Natalia Ginzburg)
29. Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
30. Heroes of the Frontier (Dave Eggers)
31. My Life in Middlemarch (Rebecca Mead)
32. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)
33. Prohibition: A Concise History (W.J. Rorabaugh)
34. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond)
35. Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
36. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald)
37. Exit West (Mohsin Hamid)
38. Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson)
39. The Kindness Challenge (Shaunti Feldhahn)
40 The Unlikely Pilgramage of Harold Fry (Rachel Joyce)
41. An American Marriage (Tayari Jones)
]]>Sun, 31 Dec 2017 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2017-reading-list1. Lab Girl (Hope Jahren)
2. The Empathy Exams (Leslie Jamison)
3. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Arlie Hochschild)
4. Sweetbitter (Stephanie Danler)
5. Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance)
6. Kitchens of the Great Midwest (J. Ryan Stradal)
7. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (John M. Gottman)
8. Big Little Lies (Liane Moriarty)
9. The Marriage of Opposites (Alice Hoffman)
10. Making sense of God (Timothy Keller)
11. Orphan Train (Christina Baker Kline)
12. Faithful (Alice Hoffman)
13. Missional Motherhood (Gloria Furman)
14. To the Bright Edge of the World (Eowyn Ivey)
15. A Legend of Some Sort (Eric Schaefges)
16. Signs for Lost Children (Sarah Moss)
17. Leaving the Saints: How I lost the Mormons and found my faith (Martha Beck)
18. Temptations Women Face (Mary Ellen Ashcroft)
19. The Missional Mom (Helen Lee)
20. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (Lisa See)
21. The Lost City of the Monkey God (Douglas Preston)
22. The Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery)
23. Earning the Rockies: How geography shapes America's role in the world (Robert D. Kaplan)
24. Frindle (Andrew Clements)
25. Waking up White and Finding myself in the story of race (Debby Irving)
26. Still life (Louise Penny)
27. Lincoln in the Bardo (George Saunders)
28. Nurturing the Spirit in non-sectarian classrooms (Aline D. Wolf)
29. The Most Important Year (Suzanne Bouffard)
30. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
31. Nurture Shock (Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman)
32. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Sherman Alexie)
33. Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance (Linda K. Wertheimer)
34. Motivate Your Child (Scott Turansky)
35. The Magic of Motherhood (Ashley Gadd)
36. Hag-Seed (Margaret Atwood)
37. Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
38. 1,2,3 Magic (Thomas Phelan)
39. Hidden Figures (Margot Shetterly)
40. "The Christmas Dance" from James McBride's Five-Carat Soul
]]>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2016-reading-list1. Only Time Will Tell (Jeffery Archer)
2. Sins of the Father (Jeffery Archer)
3. Being Mortal (Atul Gawande)
4. The Case for Christ (Lee Strobel)
5. Best Kept Secret (Jeffery Archer)
6. How Children Succeed (Paul Tough)
7. H is for Hawk (Helen MacDonald)
8. Be Careful What You Wish For (Jeffery Archer)
9. The Boys in the Boat (Daniel James Brown)
10. Mightier than the Sword (Jeffery Archer)
11. Cometh the Hour (Jeffery Archer)
12. Night Driving (Addie Zierman)
13. The Martian (Andy Weir)
14. Let's Take the Long Way Home (Gail Caldwell)
15. Sheet Music (Kevin Leman)
16. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
17. Present over Perfect (Shaun Niequiest)
18. On the Move (most) (Oliver Sacks)
19. The Secret Chord (Geraldine Brooks)
20. Americanah (Adiche)
21. Homegoing (Yaa Gyuari)
22. Zero K (Don Delillo)
23. Dept. of Speculation (Jennie Offill)
24. Reclaiming Conversation: The power of talk in a digital world (Sherry Turkle)
25. This was a man (Jeffery Archer)
26. The meaning of marriage (Tim Keller)
27. In Other Words (Jumpra Lahiri)
28. Bridget Jones' Baby (Helen Fielding)
29. My Name is Lucy Barton (Elizabeth Strout)
30. All the light we cannot see (Anthony Doerr)]]>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2015-reading-list1. Looking for Alaska (John Green)
2. How to Really Love Your Child (Ross Campbell)
3. The Power of the Praying Parent (Stormie Omartian)
4. Keeping our children's hearts (Terri and Steve Maxwell)
5. Euphoria (Lily King)
6. State of Wonder (Ann Patchett)
7. The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)
8. For Parents Only (Shaunti Feldhahn)
9. 102 Questions Children Ask about the Bible
10. Simple Acts of Kindness for Kids (Ray Alonzo)
11. The Five Love Languages of Children (Gary Chapman/Ross Campbell)
12. The Magician's Nephew (C.S. Lewis)
13. Guidebooks on St. John and the Virgin Islands (Lonely Planet, Frommers, Fodors)
14. The Horse and the boy (C.S. Lewis)
15. Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis)
16. The Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)
17. The Silver Chair (C.S. Lewis)
18. Loving the Little Years (Rachel Janovic)
19. Light from Heaven (Jan Karon)
20. The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis)
21. Cold Tangerines (Shauna Niequist)
22. Experimenting with babies (Shaun Gallager)
23. Bittersweet (Shauna Niequist)
24. Montessori: A Modern Approach (Paula Polk Lillard)
25. Maria Montessori: Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook (A Short Guide to Her Ideas and Materials)
26. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
27. The Heavenly Man (Brother Yun)
28. The Case for Faith (Lee Strobel)
]]>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 08:00:00 GMThttps://www.evenincambridge.com/read/2014-reading-list1. Chasing Harry Winston
2. Beautiful Ruins
3. Six Days of War (mostly)
4. The Age of Miracles
5. The Five Love Languages
6. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
7. Labor Day
8. Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough
9. When We Were on Fire (Addie Zierman)
10. Unbroken (Laura Hillenbrand)
11. The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
12. The Invention of Wings (Sue Monk Kidd)
13. The Language of Flowers
14. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Karen Joy Fowler)
15. Christ in the Chaos: How the Gospel Changes Motherhood
16. Divergent (Veronica Roth)
17. The Price of Privilege (Madeline Levine)
18. The House Girl (Tara Conklin)
19. Sacred Marriage (Gary Thomas)
20. Fairyland (Alysia Abbot)
21. Love & Respect: The Love she most desires, The respect he most desperately needs (Emerson Eggerichs)
22. Cambridge (Susanna Kaysen)
23. One Thousand Gifts (Ann Voskamp)
24. She's Gonna Blow! (Julie Ann Barnhill)
25. Tilly (Frank E. Peretti)
26. The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
27. Beat the Reaper (Josh Bazell)
28. Practicing the Presence of God (Brother Lawrence)
29. Heart Talk (Linda Anderson)
30. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle / Mrs.'s Piggle Wiggle's Magic / Hello, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle?
31. We Need New Names (NoViolet Bulawayo)
32. Girl, Interrupted (Susanna Kaysen)
33. Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
34. The Respect Dare: 40 Days to a deeper connection with God and your husband (Nina Roesner)
35. Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Katherine Boo)
36. The Midwife (Jennifer Worth)
37. Father of the Rain (Lily King)
38. Bread and Wine: A love letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes (Shauna Niequist)
39. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (Robyn Scott)
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