SOS Annual Bookshare Book Lists

Books presented by SOS participants
at the annual Bookshare

Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People, by Evelyn Underhill
Come With Me, by Holly M. McGhee
The Shadow of Your Smile, By Mary Higgins Clark
When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today, by Harvey Cox
Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril, by Elizabeth A. Johnson
Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, by Mark Williams and Danny Penman
Coming Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers, by Thich Nhat Hanh
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II — The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, by George Weigel
Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment and human ecology
Felicity: Poems, by Mary Oliver
Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, by Eknath Easwaran

Bonhoeffer, Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metataxas
Introduction to the Devout Life, by St. Francis de Sales, Translated by John K. Ryan
The Shack, Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity, by William Paul Young
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker
Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions, by Pir Zia Inayat- Khan
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Things Hidden, by Richard Rohr, OFM
Accidental Saints: Finding God in All the Wrong People, by Nadia Bolz-Weber
Laudato Si and Amoris Laetitia, encyclicals by Pope Frances
All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Social Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman
Body and Soul, by Frank Conroy
Listen, Prophets, by George Maloney, S.J.
Priestdaddy, by Patricia Lockwood

The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery, by Henri S.M. Nouwen
God & Churchill: How the Great Leader’s Sense of Divine Destiny Changed his Troubled world and offers Hope for Ours, by Johathan Sandys and Wallace Henley
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully, by Joan Chittister, OSB
A Spirituality for the 21^st Century: Experiencing God in the Catholic Tradition, edited by Dr. Richard W Miller II
33 Days to Morning Glory, a Do-It-Yourself Retreat in Preparation for Marian Consecration, by Father Michael E. Gaitley, MIC
Inside the Now: Meditations on Time, by Tich Nhat Hanh
God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Heart, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, by Victoria Sweet
“Moving Water,” poem by Jelalludin Rumi
You Are the Placebo: Making Mind Matter, by Dr Joe Dispenza
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World’s Top Minds, by Carmine Gallo
Essential Writings, by Dorothee Soell

Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi by Richard Rohr
Mystic Heart: Discovering Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions by Wayne Teasdale
Power versus Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior by David Hawkins,
Vanishing Grace: Whatever Happened to the Good News? by Philip Yancey
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church by Philip Yancey
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words by Susan Halpern
End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Belief: Readings on the Reasons for Faith by Francis S. Collins
Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr
Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller
The Contemplative Life by Thomas Phillippe
Ascent to Joy: Transforming Deadness of Spirit by Carol Ochs

A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilbur (Mark Evans)
Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins (Haresh Mirani)
Goddesses and Older Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen M.D., Jungian (Connie)
Pope John XXIII by Thomas Cahill (Hinges of History series) (John Prados)
Night and Dawn (2 books) by Ellie Weisell (Val Whiting)
Sun Dancing (Irish Christianity) by Jeffrey Morehouse (George Smith)
Healing our Violence through Centering Prayer via Audibel, audio book Father Keating and Father Rohr (David Waite
The Future of Faith by Harvey Cox (Ed Miller)
The Daily Catholic, an app with a variety of resources, free download (Theresa Nardi)
A Minute of Margin (brief meditations) by R. Swenson, M.D. (Joy Baker)
Minimalism by Joshua Fields Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus (Joy Baker)
A theory of Everything by Ken Wilbur (Mark Evans)
Doubt by Jennifer Michael Hecht (Val Whiting)
The World according to Fred Rogers (David Waite)