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World's Religion As each group as started up, our practice has been to start at a common point by reading some excerpts from the book “The World's Religions” by Huston Smith.

We ask new members to read the chapters on Christianity, Judaism and Islam before the first meeting. This helps establish some common vocabulary as well as getting members comfortable talking about their own religions.

Our books are organized in a Goodreads Library. Using the links below you can see what we have been reading in each category. Once you click through to the book list, you can see other classifcations, such as which groups have read which books, and suggestions for future reading.

  Christian Books
  Muslim Books
  Jewish Books
  Cross-Religion Books

Print an alphabetical list of all the books (PDF) we have been reading.

Print a selected list of books with descriptions (PDF).

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Why Faith Matters
The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
Teach Yourself Islam
The Ladies Auxiliary
The Tent of Abraham: Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Wrestling With the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame
The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
Selected Poems By Yehuda Amichai
A Thread of Grace
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Journey to Rediscover a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story
A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain
Road to Mecca
The River Midnight
A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice
The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites Of Passage From Biblical To Modern Times
Samarkand
Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey among Hasidic Girls
Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What's So Good About the Good News?
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
Beyond Tolerance: Searching for Interfaith Understanding in America
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land
The Ritual Bath
As a Driven Leaf
The Red Tent: A Novel: Tenth-Anniversary Edition
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew's Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land
Tales of the Hasidim
Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel
Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why It Is Necessary to Give
The Far Euphrates
A Tale of Love and Darkness
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew-- Three Women Search for Understanding
The Chosen
The Last of the Just
Around Sarah's Table: Ten Hasidic Women Share Their Stories of Life, Faith, and Tradition
The Cloister Walk
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Lying Awake
Evensong
The Screwtape Letters
Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith
The Seville Communion
Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery
Gilead: A Novel
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey
"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
The Rock: A Tale of Seventh-Century Jerusalem
Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca
The Storyteller's Daughter
Islam: The Straight Path
Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century
The Book of Saladin: A Novel
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
An Audience of One
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
The World's Religions: Our Great Wisdom Traditions
Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Healing Israel/Palestine: A Path to Peace and Reconciliation
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey Through the Jewish Year
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and "Women's Work"
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of aGeneration
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment
What's Right with Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman's Midlife Journey into Judaism
Toward a Global Civilization of Love and Tolerance
Finding Your Religion: When the Faith You Grew Up With Has Lost Its Meaning
People of the Book
Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America after 9/11
The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir
The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites Of Passage From Biblical To Modern Times
Religion and Human Rights: Conflict or Convergence
Speaking of Faith: Why Religion Matters--and How to Talk About It
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
The Translator
Selected Poetry
Poems of Arab Andalusia
Joy Comes in the Morning: A Novel
The Red Tent
Empty the Ocean With a Spoon: Growing Up With the Customs, Traditions and Superstitions of a Jewish Home
Rashi's Daughters: Joheved
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists
Midnight Tales: A Woman's Journey Through the Middle East
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: One Man's Rediscovery of a Jewish Spiritual Tradition
The Sabbath
Return of the Prodigal Son
Reading Ruth: Contemporary Women Reclaim a Sacred Story
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission To Promote Peace...One School At A Time
Islam: A Short History
The Life of David
A Day Apart: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Find Faith, Freedom, and Joy on the Sabbath
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
Who Speaks For Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart: A Novel
Friends for the Journey


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