Open Book Club
WELCOME TO THE
ST. GABRIEL OPEN BOOK CLUB
WHY: Our purpose is to read books that generate conversation about our faith.
WHO: All adult parishioners are invited.
WHERE: Meetings rotate among members' homes.
If the group becomes too large, we will relocate to a room at the St. Gabriel campus.
WHEN: Every 4-6 weeks from 7:30-9:00 pm.
RSVP: Please let us know if you are coming! Light refreshments are always served!
2020 BOOK SELECTIONS
| The Polygamist's Daughter |
Anna LeBaron |
| Fearless |
Max Lucado |
| On Fire |
John O'Leary |
| Christ in Crisis |
Jim Wallis |
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2019 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Go, Went, Gone |
Jenny Erpenbeck |
| 29 Gifts |
Cami Walker |
| Just Mercy |
Bryan Stevenson |
| The Sun Does Shine |
Anthony Ray Hinton |
| Just Show Up |
Kara Tippetts & Jill Lynn Buteyn |
| Love Letters from Mom |
Patty Schneier |
| The Splendor of You |
Deby Sansone Schlapprizzi |
| Waiting for Christ |
St John Henry Newman |
2018 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Building a Bridge |
James Martin, S.J. |
| The Case for Christ |
Lee Strobel
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| Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project |
Jack Mayer |
| The Holy Longing: the Search for Christian Spirituality |
Ronald Rolheiser |
| The Samurai |
Shusaku Endo |
| Saints for All Occasions |
J. Courtney Sullivan |
| The Hate U Give |
Angie Thomas |
| Amazed by God's Grace |
Deacon Larry Oney |
| An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance |
Tyler Blanski |
| Wrestling with God |
Ronald Rolheiser |
| Prayer |
Ronald Rolheiser |
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2017 BOOK SELECTIONS
| The Book of Joy |
Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
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| When Breath Becomes Air |
Paul Kalanithi |
| Hillbilly Elegy |
J.D. Vance |
| The Power of One |
Bryce Courtenay |
| La Popessa |
Paul I. Murphy |
| Option B |
Sheryl Sandberg |
| The Rosary |
Immaculee Ilibagiza |
| Night's Bright Darkness |
Sally Read |
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2016 BOOK SELECTIONS
| The Abbey |
James Martin, S.J. |
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God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
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Victoria Sweet |
| AD30 |
Ted Dekker |
| Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene |
Bart D. Ehrman |
| A Man Called Ove |
Fredrick Backman |
| Redeemed |
Heather King |
| The Sparrow |
Mary Doria Russell |
| The Lamb's Supper |
Scott Hahn |
| Gilead |
Marilynne Robinson |
| The Christmas Box |
Richard Paul Evans |
2015 BOOK SELECTIONS
| An Invisible Thread |
Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski |
| Fioretti |
Andrea Tornielli |
| The American Cardinal |
Christina Boyle |
| Jesus - A Pilgrimage |
James Martin, S.J. |
| The Way of Serenity |
Fr. Jonathan Morris |
| The Story of Ruth: Twelve Moments in Every Woman's Life (September) |
Joan Chittister, OSB |
| Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in the End (October) |
Atul Gawande, MD |
| Hallowed Be This House (November) |
Thomas Howard |
| Wearing God |
Lauren F. Winner |
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2014 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Consider the Birds |
Debbie Blue |
| Stories of Early Christianity |
Fr. vanThanh Nguyen |
| Nine Words |
Allen R. Hunt |
| Revelations of Divine Love |
Julian of Norwich |
| The Church of Mercy |
Pope Francis |
| Lazarus Awakening |
Joanna Weaver |
| Drawn from the Water |
Donna T. Upchurch |
| Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus |
Nabeel Qureshi |
| Sacred Fire |
Ronald Rolheiser |
2013 BOOK SELECTIONS
2013 BOOK SELECTIONS
| A Whole New Life |
Reynolds Price |
| The Vatican Diaries |
John Thavis |
| My Sisters the Saints |
Colleen Carroll Campbell |
| God: A Biography |
Jack Miles |
| The Seven Storey Mountain |
Thomas Merton |
| Hidden Voices: Reflections of a Gay, Catholic Priest |
Gary M. Meier |
| Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth |
Reza Aslan |
| Killing Jesus: A History |
Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard |
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2012 BOOK SELECTIONS
2012 BOOK SELECTIONS
| The Great Mysteries |
Andrew Greeley |
| Unplanned |
Abby Johnson |
| The Devil’s Highway |
Luis Alberto Urrea |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran |
Azar Nafisi |
| The Other Side |
Michael H. Brown |
| Infidel |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
| Through the Eyes of Faith |
John Powell SJ |
| Half Broke Horses |
Jeannette Walls |
| The Five Love Languages |
Gary Chapman |
2011 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Tattoos on the Heart |
Greg Boyle SJ |
| A Year of Living Biblically |
A.J. Jacobs |
| Heaven is for Real |
Todd Burpo |
| The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything |
James Martin SJ |
| My Life with the Saints |
James Martin SJ |
| How Big is Your God? |
Paul Coutinho SJ |
| The Lemon Tree |
Sandy Tolan |
| Not Counting Women and Children |
Megan McKenna |
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2010 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt |
Anne Rice |
| The Language of God |
Francis Collins |
| Blessed Unrest |
Paul Hawken |
| Half the Sky |
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDann |
| Called Out of Darkness |
Anne Rice |
| Leaving Church |
Barbara Brown Taylor |
| Pope Joan |
Donna Woolfolk Cross |
| The Blue Sweater |
Jacqueline Novogratz |
2009 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Secret Cardinal |
Tom Grace |
| Led by Faith |
Immaculee Ilibagiza |
| Our Lady of Kibeho |
Immaculee Ilibagiza |
| Secrets of the Light |
Dannion Brinkley |
| Contemplation in Action |
Richard Rohr |
| Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith |
Kathleen Norris |
| Compassion: A Reflection on a Christian Life |
Nouwen, McNeill, & Morrison |
| Gift of the Red Bird |
Paula D’Arcy |
| When the Heart Waits |
Sue Monk Kidd |
| Grace to Carry |
Marcia Putnam |
| Screwtape Letters |
C.S. Lewis |
2008 BOOK SELECTIONS
| Tree Full of Angels |
Macrina Wiederhehr |
| 101 Things Everyone Should Know about the Bible |
Trigilio and Brighenti |
| Left to Tell |
Immaculee Ilibagiza |
| View from the Altar |
Howard Bleichner |
| Rediscovering Catholicism |
Matthew Kelly |
| Same Kind of Different as Me |
Hall, Moore, and Vincent |
| The Shack |
William P. Young |
| Plan B |
Ann Lamott |
2007 BOOK SELECTIONS
| God and You |
William Barry SJ |
| Conversations with God |
David Walsch |
| Prodigal Son |
Henri Nouwen |
| Redeeming Love |
Katherine Reeves |
| The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
| Hinds Feet on High Places |
Hannah Hurnard |
| The Faith Club |
Idiliby, Oliver, Werner |
| The Message of Jesus Christ |
Mahatma Gandhi et al |
| Listen: Finding God in the Story of Your Life |
Keri Wyatt Kent |
| Traveling Mercies |
Ann Lamott |
| My Monastery is a Minivan |
Denise Roy |
| The Lamb’s Supper |
Scott Hahn |
| Father Joe: the Man Who Saved My Soul |
Tony Hendra |
| Dinner with a Perfect Stranger |
David Gregory |