Exploring Diversity Book Discussion Group

Contact:
  
Shelly Case or Ruth MacFadyen
   Email:  diversity-book-group

 

The Exploring Diversity Discussion Group seeks to expand our awareness of all those issues that divide us. Books and videos about race, culture, sexual orientation, and physical or mental differences will be this group’s reading focus. It meets once a month at the Fellowship. See the calendar for the exact date and time. Videos will be loaned out on DVD.

 

Following are our selections for this year:  No meeting June, July and August.

   

Sep 11

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Oct 9

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Nov 13

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

Dec 11

The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

Jan 8

The Story of a Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon

Feb 12

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Mar 11

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Apr 8

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Any Chua

May 13

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdich


 
PAST SELECTIONS:

  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

  • All the Shah’s Men: an American Coup and the Roots of the Middle East by Stephen Kinzer

  • Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni

  • Art of Racing in the Rain, The by Garth Stein

  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

  • Bend It Like Beckham  (film) directed by Gurinder Chadha

  • Blood from a Stone by Donna Leon

  • Book of Salt, The by Monique Truong

  • Book Thief, The by Markus Zusak

  • Brother I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

  • Children of a Lesser God play by Mark Howard Medoff

  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

  • Circle of Stones by Joan Dahr Lambert

  • Color of Water, The: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by Bucks County author James McBride

  • Commoner, The by John Burnham Schwartz

  • Crash (film)

  • Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

  • Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime, The, by Mark Haddon

  • Day Without A Mexican: There Goes the Neighborhood, A (film)

  • Digging to America by Anne Tyler

  • Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

  • Dreams from My Father by Barak Obama

  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

  • Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

  • Fabulous Small Jews by Joseph Epstein

  • Food, Inc. (film)

  • Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

  • Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land

  • Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

  • Help, The by Katherine Stockett

  • Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

  • If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  • Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa by Mark Mathabane

  • Kite Runner, The, by Khaled Hosseini

  • Known World, The by Edward P. Jones

  • Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr

  • London Eye Mystery, The by Siobhan Dowd

  • Maria Full of Grace   (film) written and directed by Joshua Marston

  • Maus: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

  • Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen

  • Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

  • Milagro Beanfield War, The  (film)

  • Monsoon Wedding  (film) directed by Mira Nair

  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracey Kidder

  • Namesake, The: A Novel by Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn

  • People of the Book, The by Geraldine Brooks

  • Plot against America, The by Philip Roth

  • Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G. Bloom.

  • Price of a Child by Lorene Carey

  • Rape of Europa, The,  (film) directed by R.Berge, N. Newnham & B.Cohen.

  • Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

  • Real Women Have Curves  (film) directed by Patricia Cardoso

  • Red Tent, The by Anita Diamant

  • Riding the Bus with My Sister: a True Life Journey by Rachel Simon

  • Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terence Ward

  • Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

  • Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

  • Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet by Xinran Xue

  • Small Island: A Novel by Andrea Levy

  • Smoke Signals (film)

  • Soloist, The by Steve Lopez

  • Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures, by Anne Fadimann.

  • Step from Heaven, A by An Na

  • Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

  • Sweet Land  (film)

  • 10 Questions fo the Dalai Lama (film) directed by Rick Ray

  • There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Koltowitz

  • 36 Views of Mount Fuji by Cathy Davidson

  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

  • Tortilla Curtain, The, by T C Boyle

  • Travellers and Magicians (film)

  • White Balloon (film)

  • Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiama

  • Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom by Zoya, et al by Zoya, et al

If  you cannot meet on Sunday evenings and are interested in reading the books and having another discussion group, please let us know if we can help you get started. Contact Shelly Case or Ruth MacFadyen with questions, email diversity-book-group.

 

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