2013 – 2018 UMW Reading Program Book List
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
2013
From Preparation to Passion
In from the Wilderness
Morning Coffee with James
Praying for Strangers
Reluctant Pilgrim
Signs of Life
2014
Embraced by God: Celebrating Who and Whose
You Are
A Faithful Heart: Daily Guide for Joyful Living
Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent
Strong Was Her Faith: Women of the New
New Testament
You’re Already Amazing: Embracing Who You
2015
Eat with Joy- Redeeming God’s Gift of Food
Finding God in a Bag of Groceries –Sharing Food,
Discovering Grace
No Longer Silent – The Empowerment of Women
in the Gospels
Praying to Change Your Life – A Guide to
Productive Prayer
The Seven Paths – Changing One’s Way of Walking
In the World
Shopping – Christian Explorations of Daily Living
2016
Cured but Not Healed: How to Experience Deeper
Faith on Your Journey with God
Key United Methodist Beliefs
My Life and Lesser Catastrophes: An Unflinchingly
Honest Journey of Faith (Kindle)
Things Your Mother Never Told You: A Woman’s
Guide to Sexuality
Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience
Created for Happiness: Understanding Your Life in God (Mission Study)
2017
Femmevangelical: The Modern Girl’s Guide to the
Good News
Fully Awake and Truly Alive: Spiritual Practices to
Nurture Your Soul
If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical
Womanhood and Becoming All God Means for You
to Be (Kindle)
Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury After War
Wild in the Hollow: On Chasing Desire and Finding the
Broken Way Home (Kindle)
The Bible and Human Sexuality (Mission Study)
2018
Adventure to Ascent by Luci Shaw
Bus to Corinth by Ladine Housholder
The Pilgrim Messiah by Dr. Richard Cheatham
Pray and Color by Sybil MacBeth
Tattered and Mended by Cynthia Ruchti
Living In A Covenant Community (Mission Study)
NURTURING FOR COMMUNITY
2013
A Country For All
Alone and Invisible No More
Every Day is a Good Day
Love in a Headscarf
Mind on the Run
Radical Welcome
2014
100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent
Alzheimer’s and Age-Related Memory Loss
Please Look After Mom – A Novel
Simply Salsa: Dancing Without Fear at God’s Fiesta
Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving
Your Neighbor
Up: A Mother and Daughter’s Peak Bagging
Adventure
2015
The End of Your Life Book Club
January First – A Child’s Descent into Madness
and Her Father’s Struggle to Save Her
The Round House – A Novel
Whatever Happened to Dinner – Recipes and
Reflections for Family Mealtime
When Pastors Prey – Overcoming Clergy Sexual Abuse
of Women
2016
Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation’s Fight
for Their American Dream
House of Purple Cedar
I Love Growing Older, But I’ll Never Grow Old
Miss Brenda and the Loveladies: A Heartwarming
True Story of Grace, God and Gumption
Not Worth Saving: How a Severely Handicapped
Boy Transformed Lives
2017
Broken and Blessed: God Changes the World One
Person and One Family at a Time (Kindle)
Launch Your Encore: Finding Adventure and Purpose
Later in Life
Money on Purpose: Finding a Faith-Filled Balance
Seamless Faith: Simple Practices for Daily Family
Life (Kindle)
Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your
Kitchen Door
2018
Detained and Deported by Margaret Regan
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
By Roxanne Bunabr-Ortiz
On Pluto by Greg O’Brien
Passing It On by Kara Lassen Oliver
Trouble I’ve Seen by Drew G.I. Hart
EDUCATION FOR MISSION
2013
Becoming a Justice Seeking Congregation
Everyday Justice
How Coffee Saved My Life
Rubble Nation – BONUS BOOK
2014
Awake: Doing a World of Good One Person
At a Time
A History of the Romani People
On This Spirit Walk: The Voices of Native
American and Indigenous Peoples
Radio Shangri-La: What I Discovered on My
Accidental Journey to the Happiest Kingdom on
Earth
A Twist of Faith: An American Christian’s Quest
to Help Orphans in Africa - BONUS BOOK
2015
Chasing Chaos – My Decade in and Out of
Humanitarian Aid
Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain – Hope for
a Planet in Peril – BONUS BOOK
The Golden Cage – Three Brothers, Three Choices,
One Destiny
Good God, Lousy World and Me – The Improbable
Journey of a Human Rights Activist From
Unbelief to Faith – BONUS BOOK
What’s So Blessed about Being Poor? Seeking the
Gospel in the Slums of Kenya – BONUS BOOK
2016
Chasing the Divine in the Holy Land
Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: A Woman’s Journey
To Experience Christianity Around the Globe
Unbound: The Transformative Power of Youth
Mission Trips – BONUS BOOK
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search
of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Uprising: A New Age is Dawning for Every
Mother’s Daughter – BONUS BOOK
Latin America: People and Faith – (Mission Study)
2017
Boundless: What Global Experiences of Faith Teach Us
About Following Jesus
Faith Ed.: Teaching About Religion in the Age of
Intolerance –BONUS BOOK
Liberating Black Church History: Making It Plain
Love Casts Out Fear: A Jihad Survivor’s Journey
from Revenge to Redemption (Kindle)
Wherever the River Runs: How a Forgotten People
Renewed My Hope in the Gospel (Kindle)
Missionary Conferences of the United Methodist
Church in the United States (Mission Study)
2018
First White Frost by Homer Noley
Hiding In The Light by Rifqa Bary
A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout and
Sara Corbett
Massacre at Sand Creek by Cary L. Roberts –
BONUS BOOK
Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim
SOCIAL ACTION
2013
A Hopeful Earth
A Hopeful Earth – Leader Guide
Get Up, Stand Up
In Our Backyard
Make Poverty Personal
The Power of Half
Why Africa Matters – BONUS BOOK
2014
Break the Cycle: Healing from an Abusive
Relationship
Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority
Finding Higher Ground – Adaptation in the Age
Of Warming – BONUS BOOK
A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with
The Poor
Year of Plenty: One Suburban Family, Four Rules,
And 365 Days of Homegrown Adventure in Pursuit
Of Christian Living
2015
Americanah – A Novel
Behind the Kitchen Door – BONUS BOOK
A New Dawn in Beloved Community – Stories
With the Power to Transform Us
Ecoliterate – How Educators Are Cultivating
Emotional, Social and Ecological Intelligence –
BONUS BOOK
Kind Of Kin – A Novel
Not Just a Pretty Face – The Ugly Side of the Beauty
Industry
The Church and People with Disabilities: Awareness,
Accessibility and Advocacy (Mission Study)
2016
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption -
BONUS BOOK
Rewilding Our Hearts: Building Pathways
of Compassion and Coexistence
We Shall Not Be Moved: Methodists Debate Race,
Gender and Homosexuality – BONUS BOOK
The White Umbrella: Walking With Survivors
of Sex Trafficking
2017
America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose -
BONUS BOOK
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: An
Organizing Guide
Class Lives: Stories from Across Our Economic
Divide (Kindle)
Pre-Post-Racial America: Spiritual Stories from the
Front Lines (Kindle)
Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promise of Plenty
Imperils Our Future (Kindle)
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice
of God (Kindle)
Wage Theft Comics: Crime and Justice #1
What We’re Fighting for Now Is Each Other:
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice
(Kindle) (BONUS BOOK)
Climate Justice (Mission Study)
2018
13 Steps to Sustainability (free download from
www.unitedmethodistwomen.org/
sustainability
America’s Original Sin by Jim Wallis
Born on Third Base by Chuck Collins
Hospitable Planet by Steven A Jurovics –
BONUS BOOK
Pushout by Monique W. Morris – BONUS BOOK
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
2013
Do It Anyway
Her Place at the Table
Outcasts United
This Will be Remembered of Her
2014
Back to Zero: The Search to Rediscover the
Methodist Movement
Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and
Fairness at Good Year and Beyond
King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal
Destiny and the Inspiring Story of How She
Changed an African Village
Women, Spirituality and Transformative
Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power
2015
Fulfilled – Living and Leading With Unusual
Wisdom, Peace and Joy
The New Feminist Agenda – Defining the Next
Revolution for Women, Work and Family
Sum It Up – 1,098 Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant
Losses and a Life in Perspective
Tough Cookies – Leadership Lessons From 100
Years of the Girl Scouts
2016
The Andrew Paradigm: How to Be a Lead Follower
of Jesus
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
and was Shot by the Taliban
The Weight of Mercy: A Novice Pastor on the City
Streets
2017
Called to the Fire: A Witness for God in Mississippi:
The Story of Dr. Charles Johnson
Falling into Place: A Memoir of Overcoming
High Yield: Seven Disciplines of the Fruitful Leader
(Kindle)
Not Safe for Church: Ten Commandments for Reaching
New Generations
2018
50 Women Every Christian Should Know by
Michelle DeRusha
Hollow Faith by Stephen Ingram
Interfaith Leadership by Eboo Patel
The Sacred Secular by Dottie Escobedo-Frank &
Rob Ryndes
She by Karoline M. Lewis
LARGE PRINT
2013
EM – I Am Hutterite
NC – Plain Wisdom
SA – One Simple Act
SG – When Christians Get it Wrong
2014
EM - The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters,
One Remarkable Family, and the Women Who
Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
LD - Lord, I Love the Church and We Need Help
NC - The Power of Serving Others: You Can Start
Where You Are
SA - An Invisible Thread: The True Story of
an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, A Busy Sales
Executive and an Unlikely Meeting with
Destiny
SG – Jesus: A Biography from a Believer
2015
NC – Across Many Mountains – A Tibetan Family’s
Epic Journey From Oppression to Freedom
SA - That Used to Be Us – How America Fell Behind
In the World It Invented and How We Can
Come Back – BONUS BOOK
SG – Help, Thanks, Wow – The Three Essential
Prayers
SG – The Well Women – Closing the Boundaries
2016
LD – Girls With Swords: How to Carry Your Cross
Like a Hero
SA – In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
NC – A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind: Loving
Your Body, Accepting Yourself, and Living
without Regret
2017
LD – Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space
SG – Extraordinary Grace: How the Unlikely Lineage
of Jesus Reveals God’s Amazing Love
SG – Living into Hope: A Call to Spiritual Action in
Such a Time as This
2018
NC – The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama and
Desmond Tutu
NC – Good Health, Good Life by Joyce Meyer
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Visually Impaired and Physically Disabled.
A list of Books in Braille, Cassette or Disc
available from the National Library Service for
the Blind and Physically Handicapped
YOUTH BOOKS
2013
EM - Cry of the Giraffe
LD - Do Hard Things
NC - Fatty Legs
NC – ThinandBeautiful.com
SA – Free?
SG – Permission to Speak Freely
2014
EM – Growing Up Muslim
LD – A Native American Thought Of It
NC – Wonder
SA – Which Side Are You On?
SG – Esther
2015
EM – A Girl Called Problem – A Novel
LD – This Girl Is Different – A Novel
NC – Bully.com – A Novel
NC – Vicious – True Stories By Teens About
Bullying
NC – The Power to Prevent Suicide – A Guide
For Teens Helping Teens
SA – Refuse to Do Nothing – Finding Your Power
to Abolish Modern-day Slavery
SA – Return to Sender – A Novel
2016
LD – Nature Girl: A Guide for Caring for God’s
Creation
NC – Crazy
NC – Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native
American Voices
SA – Blue Gold A Novel
SG – Coaltown Jesus
EM – Latin America: Places, Culture, and Faith
(Mission Study for Youth)
2017
EM –Live to Give: Letting God Turn Your
Talents into Miracles (Kindle)
NC – The Perfect Place (Kindle)
LD – Pig Park
NC – Remember Dippy
NC - #Stolen: Is Social Media Stealing Your Identity
SG – The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth
Living
SA – Joining Voices for Climate Justice (Mission
Study for Youth)
2018
LD – Feathered by Deborah Kerbel
NC – Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp
SA – Worker Justice Illustrated #2 by Intefaith
Worker Justice, 2016
SG – Christ Walk Kids by Anna Fitch Courie
CHILDREN’S BOOKS - Contact Your
District Secretary of Program Resources
for information on the Children’s
Reading Program.
2013
EM - One World Kid’s Cookbook – BONUS BK
EM – Mali Under the Night Sky
LD – Agatha’s Feather Bed
NC – The Smell of Old Lady Perfume
NC – Violet
SA – Only the Mountains Do Not Move
SA - The Mangrove Tree – BONUS BOOK
SG – Psalms for Young Children
2014
EM – Tara’s Lookout
LD – The Herd Boy
LD – Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells
NC – Silent Star
NC – Unplugged
SA – Puffling Patrol
SA – Sheila Says We’re Weird
SG – Traveler
2015
EM – Deep in the Sahara
EM – My Name is Blessing
NC – Because Amelia Smiled
NC – The Chickens Build a Wall
SA – The Eye of the Whale – A Rescue Story
SA – The Promise
SG – I Can Pray!
SG – Nasreddine
2016
EM - Twenty-two Cents: Muhammad Yunus and the
Village Bank
LD – I Am a Girl: I Can Change the World
NC – Lend a Hand: Poems about Giving
SA – The Soda Bottle School: A True Story
of Recycling, Teamwork, and One Crazy Idea
SG - Before We Eat: From Farm to Table
EM – Our Rights: How Kids are Changing the World
(BONUS BOOK)
EM – Life and Faith in Latin America: A Mission
Study for Children (Mission Study Book)
2017
EM – Journey with J.W.: John Wesley’s Ride Through
Methodist History
LD – The Courage to be Yourself: True Stories by Teens
About Cliques, Conflicts, and Overcoming