St. Timothy’s Book Group
Are you looking for some good books to read? Here is a history of the books we have read as
part of the St. Timothy’s book group, along with the rating (on a scale of 1-10) that each book
received. If you love to read, try some of these and then come and join us for our book
discussions! Upcoming meetings are listed in blue.
Title
Author
Date
Rating
(Scale of 1-10)
Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok
January 28, 2012
Moloka’i
Alan Brennert
The Forgotten Garden
Kate Norton
Little Bee
Chris Cleve
November 26,
2012
October 29,
2012
October 1, 2012
N/A
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
August 27, 2012
9
The Blue Sweater
Jacqueline
Novogratz
Joan Didion
July 23, 2012
7.5
June 25, 2012
3.5
The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas
The Cellist of Sarajevo
John Boyne
May 21, 2012
10
Steven Galloway
April 30, 2012
7.6
Having a Mary Heart in a
Martha World
Tatoos on the Heart
Joann Weaver
April 1, 2012
7.8
Gregory Boyle, SJ
10
The Hiding Place
Corrie ten Boom
February 27,
2012
January 23, 2012
A Secret Gift
Ted Gup
Curse of the Narrows
Laura MacDonald
Unbroken
Laura Hillebrand
Blue Nights
November 28,
2011
October 24,
2011
September 26,
2011
9.75
8.7
8.1
9
Title
Author
Date
Rating
(Scale of 1-10)
Hotel on the Corner of
Bitter and Sweet
Zeitoun
Jamie Ford
August 22, 2011
9.5
Dave Eggers
July 25, 2011
7.8
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese June 25, 2011
9.9
The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks
A Widow’s Story
Rebecca Skloot
7.7
Little Heathens
Mildred Armstrong Mar. 28, 2011
Kalish
Ian McEwen
Feb. 28, 2011
Atonement
May 24, 2011
April 2011
3
9.3
8.5
Dark Tide: The Great
Molasses Flood in Boston
The Things They Carried
Steven Puleo
Jan. 24, 2011
Tim O’Brien
Called to Question
Sr. Joan Chittister
The Help
Kathryn Sockett
A Place of Execution
Val McDermid
November 29,
2010
October 25,
2010
September 27,
2010
August 23, 2010
Sundays in America
So You Don’t Want to Go
to Church Anymore
Year of Wonders
Suzanne Strempek July 2010
Shea
Wayne Jacobsen & June 28, 2010
Dave Coleman
Geraldine Brooks
May 24, 2010
Blood Brothers
Elias Chacour
April 26, 2010
Sarah’s Key
Tatiana deRosnay
March 2010
7.8
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
7.5
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
February 22,
2010
January 2010
8.0
10
10
8.5
6.9
5
10
Title
Author
Date
Rating
(Scale of 1-10)
Death Comes for the
Archbishop
Still Alice
Willa Cather
November, 2009
7.6
Lisa Genova
October 2009
9.5
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sept. 28, 2009
4.6
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield
August 31, 2009
4.4
The Guernsey Literary and Mary Ann Shaffer
Potato Peel Pie Society
and Anne Barrows
Breakfast With Buddha
Roland Merullo
July 27, 2009
8.6
June 29, 2009
7.75
The Shack
William P. Young
June 1, 2009
9.2
Rabbi Paul
Bruce Chilton
April 27, 2009
7.5
Leap of Faith
Kimberly BradelyBrubaker
Geraldine Brooks
Mar. 18, 2009
8.5
Feb. 23, 2009
8
People of the Book
Their Eyes Were Watching Zora Neale
Jan. 26, 2009
God
Hurston
The Bronze Bow
Elizabeth George
Nov. ‘08
Speare (with YFM)
Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky October ‘08
7.4
7.9
8.2
Jesus of Nazareth
Pope Benedict XVI September ‘08
The Seven Storey
Mountain
The Kite Runner
Thomas Merton
August ‘08
7.9
Khaled Hosseini
July ‘08
8.9
The Tortilla Curtain
J.C. Boyle
June ‘08
7
The Color of Water
James McBride
May ‘08
8.5
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson and
David Oliver Relin
April ‘08
7.9
Garden of Martyrs
Michael C. White
March 08
7.2
8.5
Title
Author
Date
Rating
(Scale of 1-10)
My Sister’s Keeper
Jodi Picoult
February 08
8.8
A Prayer for Owen
Meaney
The Five People You Meet
in Heaven
March
John Irving
January 08
7.6
Mitch Albom
November 07
8.1
Geraldine Brooks
October 07
Mayflower
Nathaniel Philbrick September 07
5.9
Expecting Adam
Martha Beck
August 07
7.7
Left to Tell: Discovering
God Amidst the Rwandan
Holocaust
Abraham: A Journey to
the Heart of Three Faiths
The Red Tent
Imaculee Ilibagiza
July 07
n/a
Bruce Feiler
June 07
n/a
Anita Diamant
May 07
n/a
Gilead
April 07
n/a
Secret Life of Bees
Marilynne
Robinson
Sue Monk Kidd
March 07
n/a
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger
February 07
n/a
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St. Tim’s Book Group meets on the 4th Monday of each month, from
7:30-9:00 pm to explore the spiritual aspects
of contemporary works of literature.
To be added to our e-mail list,
or to suggest a title for the group to read,
please contact Colleen at CNCampion@yahoo.com.
Join us!!!