Dear People of St. James’,
I did a bunch of reading during my sabbatical, and I promised that I would share my reading list with you. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction here. Don’t judge me too harshly. There’s some good stuff here.
FICTION
The Covenant of Water: A Novel, by Abraham Verghese
James by Percival Everett
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
Go Tell it on the Mountain: A Novel, by James Baldwin
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dawn: A Lilith’s Brood Novel, by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler
NONFICTION
How to Know a Person, by David Brooks
TEAM: Getting Things Done with Others, David Allen and Edward Lamont
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit
Dancing in the Darkness: Spiritual Lessons for Thriving in Turbulent Times, by Otis Moss III
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy and Freedom in African American Thought, by Melvin L. Rogers
Latinoland: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority, by Marie Arana
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages, by Dan Jones
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors, by Dan Jones
Rev. Eileen
