Looking for a good book to read? This list of books discussed in recent years by the WTB Book Club provides you with a variety of excellent choices:
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The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
- All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
- American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
- American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
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Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
- The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
- The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
- Behold the Dreamers a novel by Yara Zgheib
- Believer Beware: First Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith edited by Jeff Sharlet
- Best African-American Fiction edited by Gerald Early
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Bible by Karen Armstrong
- A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity by Jan Egeland
- Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
- The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz
- The Boat People by Sharon Bala
- The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith by Joanna Brooks
- The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman’s Journey by Leila Ahmed
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
- Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
- Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by Willow Wilson
- Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin
- A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter
- Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- Caught in the Web: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators by Julian Sher
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- Censoring an Iranian Love Story: A Novel by Shahriar Mandanipour
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris
- Confessions of a Pagan Nun by Kate Horsley
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- Dark Money by Jane Mayer
- Daughters of Another Path by Carol L. Anway
- The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands by Margaret Regan
- Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
- The Dove Keepers by Alice Hoffman Masada, 70 c.e.
- The Embattled Ladies of Little Rock: 1958-1963, the Struggle to Save Public Education at Central High by Vivion Lenon Brewer
- Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
- Encountering God by Diana Eck
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
- A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
- Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
- Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada
- Founding Faith by Steven Waldman
- Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi
- The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz by Michelle Cameron
- Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox
- Genghis Khan by Jack Weatherford
- The Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
- Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale by Rachel Lloyd
- A Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
- God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time by Desmond Tutu
- God Is Not a Christian and Other Provocations by Desmond Tutu
- God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World – and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephan Prothero
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet
- Good-bye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
- The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus by the Dalai Lama
- A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves: One Family and Migration in the 21st Century by Jason DeParle
- The Gospel of John in the Light of Indian Mysticism by Ravi Ravindra
- The Great Fire: One American’s Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century’s First Genocide by Lou Ureneck
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
- Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Reuben Jonathan Miller
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
- The Help by by Kathryn Stockett
- Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
- A History of God: The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others by Barbara Brown Taylor
- Hope & Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh by Gerald Grant
- The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
- The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem: Being Young and an Arab in America by Mustafa Bayoumi
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
- I Will Never See the World Again byAhmet Altan
- The Immigrant Advantage: What We Can Learn from Newcomers to America about Health, Happiness and Hope by Claudia Kolker
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloott
- The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear edited by Paul Rogat Loeb
- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
- India Calling by Anand Giridharadas
- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Iran Awakening by Shirin Ibadhi
- Islam: A Mosaic, not a Monolith by Vartan Gregorian
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World by James Carroll
- Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Gramm
- King Peggy by Pegielene Bartels
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
- Last Train to Istanbul by Ayse Kulin
- The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari by Paul Theroux
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
- The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World by Bob Abernathy and William Bole (eds.)
- The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Ayadeh Moaveni
- A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah
- The Making of a Racist by Charles Dew
- Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine by Eric Weiner
- Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss
- Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeen Aslam
- Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney
- The Middle of Everywhere: The World’s Refugees Come to Our Town by Mary Pipher
- The Milk Lady of Bangalore by Shoba Narawan
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
- The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
- My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
- My Promised Land by Ari Shavit
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- New York, My Village: A Novel by Uwem Akman
- Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Night Watch Man by Louise Erdrich
- Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women by Geraldine Brooks
- North of Dawn by Nuruddin Farah
- North Star Conspiracy by Miriam Grace Mondfredo (from Rochester, NY)
- Nothing Ever Dies: Viet Nam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
- Now You See Us: A Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal
- Oil on Water: A Novel by Helon Habila
- A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunities by Kristoff and WuDunn
- Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer
- The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and V. C. Murray
- A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirya
- Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin
- Poetry by Mary Oliver
- Poetry by Wistawa Szymborska
- The Power of Half by Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
- The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
- Prague Winter by Madelaine Albright
- Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
- Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
- Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
- The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
- The River Where Blood Is Born by Sandra Jackson-Opoku
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
- Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
- Say You’re One of Them by Uwem Akpan
- The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
- Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee Influences on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner
- Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
- Somebody’s Daughter: The Hidden Story of America’s Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them by Julian Sher
- Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett
- Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctor, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
- Stay With Me: A Novel by Ayobami Adebayo
- Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
- The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Us and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
- The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
- Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell
- Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibbs
- Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir
- The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Sister Joan Chittister, and Murshid Saadi Shakur Chishti
- The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson
- Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold
- Terrorist by John Updike
- Terrorist Hunter (anonymous)
- Teta, Mother and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women by Jean Said Makdisi
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
- The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
- True Biz by Sara Novic
- Unbowed by Wangari Maathai
- The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
- Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean S. Bolen
- Us and Them: A History of Intolerance in America by Jim Carnes, Herbert Tauss, and Harry A. Blackmun
- The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennett
- The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics by Jennifer Heath (ed.)
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- We Are the Ones We have Been Waiting For by Alice Walker
- We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
- A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alverez
- Welcome to the Wisdom of the World by Joan Chittister
- What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America by Imam Rauf
- When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
- When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by Le Ly Hayslip
- Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media by Susan J. Douglas
- Why Are Our Babies Dying by Sandra Lane
- Without You There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim
- A Woman Among Warlords by Malalai Joya
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonya Purnell
- The Women Who Raised Me by Victoria Rowell
- The Yellow House by Sharon Broom
- You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to Be Right by Brad Hirschfield
- The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Finn and Couvee’
- The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman