2017 Reading List

1. 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