Current Reading Program Titles

BB=Bonus Book, LP=Large Print, CB=Children’s Book, YB=Youth Book

Education for Mission

2019
Escape from the Green Mansion by Christine Taylor
Threading my Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Reham

2018
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout & Sara Corbett
Massacre at Sand Creek by Gary Roberts (BB)
Hiding in the Light by Rifqa Bary

2017
Wherever the River Runs by Kelly Minter
Journey with JW by Daphna Flegal (CB)
 
2016
Chasing the Divine in the Holy Land by Ruth Everhart
The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg
Twenty-Two Cents by Paula Yoo (LP)
Our Rights by Janet Wilson (YB) (BB)
Up Rising by Sally Armstrong (BB)
 
2015
Good God, Lousy World and Me by Holly Burkhalter (BB)
Chasing Chaos by Jessica Alexander
Faith and Struggle on Smokey Mountain by Benigno Beltran (BB)
The Golden Cage by Shirin Ebadi
What’s so Blessed About Being Poor? by Susan Slavin and Coralis Salvador (BB)
 My Name is Blessing by Eric Walters (CB)
 A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk (YB)

2014
 Awake by Noel Brewer Yeatts
 Radio Shangri-La by Lisa Napoli
 The Dressmaker by Khair Khana (LP)

Leadership Development

2019
Eleanor: A Spiritual Biography by Harold Ivan Smith
Red by Jan De Kinder (CB)
Step Up To The Plate by Maria Singh (YB)
2018
Feathered by Deborah Kerbel (YB)
Stick up for Yourself by Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael & Pamela Espeland (CB)
The Amazing age of John Roy Lynch by Chris Barton (CB)
2017
Pig Park by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez (YB) 
2016
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
The Weight of Mercy by Deb Richardson-Moore
Girls with Swords by Lisa Bevere (LP)
Because I am a Girl by Rosemary McCarney and Jen Albaugh (CB) 
2015
Fulfilled by Kirk Byron Jones
Sum It Up by Pat Summitt
This Girl Is Different by J.J. Johnson (YB)
2014
Back to Zero by Gil Rendle
Grace and Grit by Lilly Ledbetter
Lord, I Love the Church and We Need Help by Virginia Bassford (LP)
Yours for Justice by Philip Dray (CB)​

Spiritual Growth

2019
All Around Us by Xelena Gonzalez (YB)
The Soulmaking Room by Dee Dee Risher

2018
The Pilgrim Messiah by Richard Cheatham
Adventure of Ascent by Luci Shaw
​Tattered and Mended by Cynthia Ruchti (CB)
 
2017
Soul Repair by Rita Nakashima Brock & Gabriella Lettini
Living Into Hope by Joan Brown Campbell (LP)
The Reason by Lacy Sturm (YB)2016
Tilly by Monique Gray Smith
Coaltown Jesus by Ron Koertge (YB) 
2015
Finding God in a Bag of Groceries by Laura Lapins Willis 
2014
Traveler by Mary Alice Parmley (CB)
A Faithful Heart by Sally Dyck
​Embraced by God by Babbie Mason
 






 

Nurturing for Community

2019
BETTER Waking Up To Who We Could Be by Melvin Bray
The Hidden Life Awakened by Kitty Crenshaw & Cathy Snapp
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
When Did Everyone Else Get Old by Jennifer Grant

2018
Detained and Deported by Margaret Regan
Trouble I’ve Seen by Drew Hart
Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp (YB)
The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu (LP)
 
2017
Slowing Time by Barbara Mahany
The Perfect Place by Teresa E. Harris (YB)
Remember Dippy by Shirley Reva Vernick (YB)
 
2016
House of Purple Cedar—Tim Tingle
I Love Growing Older, But I’ll Never Grow Old by J.Ellsworth Kalas
Miss Brenda and the Loveladies by Brenda Spahn & Irene Zutell
Crazy by Linda Vigen Phillips (YB)
 
2015
When Pastors Prey by Valli Boobal Batchelor
Bully.com by Joe Lawlor (YB)
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
January First by Michael Schofield
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Whatever Happened to Dinner by Melodie Davis
 Across Many Mountains by Yangzom Brauen (LP)
Because Amelia Smiled by David E. Stein (CB)

2014
 Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Small Things With Great Love by Margot Starbuck
 Unplugged by Laura Padersen (CB)
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (YB)
Up by Patricia Ellis Herr
Simply Salsa by Janel Perez Eckles

Social Action

2019
Nobody Cries When We Die by Patrick B. Rays (BB)
Walking on Lava by Chelsea Green (BB)
The Feathered Bone by Julie Cantrell (not available
      from UMW Mission Resources)
2018
Pushout by Monique Morris (BB)
Hospitable Planet by Stephen Jurovics (BB)
13 Steps to Sustainability by UMW (download copy      or watch at                https://www.youtube.com/watchv=w0x8rVnuiAI&feature=youtu.be)

2017
America and its Guns by James E. Atwood (BB)
What We’re Fighting for Now is Each Other by Wen Stephenson (BB)2016
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (BB)
The White Umbrella by Mary Francis Bowley 
2015
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kind of Kin by Rilla Askew
Refuse to do Nothing by Shayne Moore & Kimberly Yim (YB)
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez (YB)
2014
Dear White America by Tim Wise
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff & Alex Tresniowski (LP)
Sheila Says We’re Weird by Ruth Ann Smalley (CB)
Finding Higher Ground by Amy Seidl (BB)
​Which Side Are You On by George Lyon (YB)