2012 – 2017 UMW Reading Program Book List
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
2012
All Creation Sings: The Voice of God in Nature
Hidden in the Rubble: A Haitian Pilgrimage
Laugh Your Way to Grace
Ostriches, Dung Beetles and Other Spiritual Masters
Wasabi Gospel
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
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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)
NURTURING FOR COMMUNITY
2012
Allow God to Wear Your Face
Asylum Denied
Breathe: Finding Freedom to Thrive in
Relationships after Childhood Sexual Abuse
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
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
2012 – 2017 UMW Reading Program Book List
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
EDUCATION FOR MISSION
2012
Beaded Hope
Because He Lives - BONUS BOOK
Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay
Forgotten Girls-Stories of Hope & Courage
It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End
of the Street
We Wait You: Waiting on God in Eastern
Europe
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)
SOCIAL ACTION
2012
Color-Blind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics
And the Retreat from Racial Equity
The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from
Arizona Borderlands
Moral Ground - BONUS BOOK
The New Jim Crow - BONUS BOOK
Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main
Street, & Your Street
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and
Slavery in American Today
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
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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)
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
2012
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Change the World
3
More Bad Girls in the Bible
Old Testament Prophets for Today
Women Lead the Way
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
LARGE PRINT
2012
LD – Why Women Should Rule the World
NC - Creative Aging
2012 – 2017 UMW Reading Program Book List
SA - Green Church
SG - Seasons of Salt
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 Bibetan 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
See Reading Program Newspaper for
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
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YOUTH BOOKS
2012
EM – Lacey and the African Grandmothers
EM – Thunder Over Kandahar
SA – Branded
SA – Going Blue: A Teen Guide to Saving Oceans
SA – Sold
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
2012 – 2017 UMW Reading Program Book List
SG – The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth
Living
SA – Joining Voices for Climate Justice (Mission
Study for Youth)
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
Peer Pressure
LD – Just Like I Wanted
LD – Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers,
and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History… and
Our Future!
NC – Animal Beauty
SG – Just for Today: Saint John XXIII
SA – God’s Extravagant Garden: A Children’s Study
on Climate Justice (Mission Study Book)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS - Contact Your
District Secretary of Program Resources
for information on the Children’s
Reading Program.
2012
EM - 14 Cows for America
EM – Faith
NC – Amazing Faces
NC – What Will You Be, Sara Mee?
SA – Seed of Change
SG – The Beautitudes, From Slavery to Civil Rights
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
Foreign Language Books –
NOT AVAILABLE IN LENDING
LIBRARY
Books in Spanish
2012
SA – Las Hijas de Jarez
NC – Cinco Practicas de Congregaciones
Fructiferas
SG – En Busca de Paz
EM – Libro para Ninas/os
2013
EM – El Mismo Dios?
LD/Child – Un Colchon de Plumas para Agata
NC – Nunca es Tarde para decirle, si! A la Vida
SA – Violencia Domestica
2014
NC – Defensa de la Fe
SG – Decisiones Revolucionarias
SG – Tres Meses en la Escuela de Mateo
NC – El Coyote Debajo de la Mesa/The Coyote
Under the Table
2015
SA – Accion Social
SA – Orando Para Cambiar Tu Vida
NC – Heroes Ordinarios
SG - En La Sala De Espera
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LD - Fiesta en la Casa de Dios
2016
SG – Doctrina Metodista: Los fundamentos
SG – Dos Tipos De Personas: Lecciones para una
Vida Abundante
2017
SA – Robo De Salarios
SG – Voces De Los Fieles: Historias Inspiradoras
NC – La Nueva Creacion:La Leologia de Juan Wesley
EM – Wesley Y El Pueblo Llamado Metodista
RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST
These books may be read for credit, but are
not available from the Mission Resource
Center
(* in Lending Library)
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
2012
Francis: The Saint of Assisi, Joan Mueller,
author
True When Whispered: Hearing God’s
Voice in a Noisy World,
Paul Escamilla, Author
Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make
A Difference by Max Lucado
2013
The Path of Justice
The Path of Love
The Path of Grace
2014
New Wine, New Wineskins: How African
American Congregations Can Reach New
Generations F. Douglas Powe Jr., Author
2015
Living Into Hope – A Call for Spiritual Action
for Such a Time as This
Joan Brown Campbell, Author
2016
On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and
Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the
Common Good Jim Wallis, author
2017
The Blessings and Bling: How Faith and
Fashion Helped Me Survive Breast Cancer
Sheron C. Patterson, author
Worry Less So You Can Live More:
Surprising, Simple Ways to Feel More Peace,
Joy and Energy
Jane Rubietta, author
Books in Korean
EM - Daybreak in Korea (Following Jesus)
LD - Jesus of This Land
NC - A Billion Lives
SA - A World Scene
SG - Live Your Life to the Full
2013
LD – Practice Not to be Angry
NC – 50 Ways to Love your Country
SA – Stop Nuclear Power Plants
SG – Radical
2014
NC – What We Eat Is What Our Bodies Are
EM – Have A Little Faith
SG – Interview on Jesus
SA – L’empire de la Honte
SG – Special Prosecutor
2015
SA - Dances With Peace
Youth - The Era of Climate Crisis
NC - Holy Sacrifice
SG - Open Mind, Open Heart
2016
EM – The First Sanctuaries in Korea
LD – 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
NC – The Five Love Languages
SA – Korean Church – Be Humble
SG – Spiritual Parenting
SG – Turn My Mourning into Dancing
2017
EM – Where Was God on That Day?
NC- Have Wisdom to Understand
the Teenager
SA – Is the American Century Over?
SG – Discipleship
SG – Prayer
SG – Do Business As the Bible Says
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2017
A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects:
Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses
S. Brent Plate, author
NURTURING FOR COMMUNITY
2012
NONE
2013
NONE
2014
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their
Journey Isabel Fonseca, Author
I Speak for Myself: American Women on
Being Muslim Maria M. Ebrahimji and Zahra
T. Suratwala, Editors
Red Sky in the Morning Elizabeth Laird,
Author
2015
Have You Seen Marie? Sandra Cisneros,
author
Journey Out of Silence – An Autobiography
William Rush, author
2016
In Capable Arms: Living a Life Embraced by
Grace Sara Kovac, author
This Far by Faith: Twenty Years at Cass
Community Faith Fowler, author
2017
The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder
Boom in a Changing America
Ai-Jan Poo, author
I’ll Be Right There
Kyung-Sook Shin, author
SOCIAL ACTION
2012
The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara
2013
The Whistleblower
2014
Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and
Immigrant Justice
Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell, Authors
2015
Against a Tide of Evil – How One Man Became the
Whistleblower to the First Mass Murder on the
Twenty-first Century Mukesh Kapila and Damien
Lewis, authors
The Enough Moment – Fighting to End Africa’s
Worst Human Rights Crimes John Prendergast and
Don Cheadle , authors
Hunting Season – Immigration and Murder in an
All-American Town Mirta Ojito, author
2017
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The 21st
Century Challenge to White America
Joseph Brandt, author
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION FOR MISSION
2014
The Student Leadership Challenge: Five
Practices for Exemplary Leaders
James M. Kouzws and Barry Z. Posner, Authors
2015
Get off Your Donkey! – Help Somebody and Help
Yourself Reggie McNeal, author
Vital Voices Alyse Nelson, author
2016
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg, author
2017
Global Girlfriends: How One Mom Made It Her
Business to Help Women in Poverty Worldwide
Stacey Edgar, author
2013
NONE
2014
St. Marks and the Social Gospel: Methodist
Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans,
1895-1965
Ellen Blue, Author
Zimbabwe Bound: A Woman’s Journey
Through Africa Larita Killian, Author
2015
NONE
2016
Hope Runs: An American Tourist, a Kenyan
Boy, a Journey of Redemption Claire DiazOrtiz, author
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LARGE PRINT
2014
Being United Methodist: What It Means, Why
It Matters J. Ellsworth Kalas, Author
2015
None
2016
None
2017
None
CHILDREN’S BOOKS –
Recommended Reading
2013
NC - Rusty & Mr. Earlie
NC – Rolling Along – The Story of Taylor
And His Wheelchair
2014
None
2015
None
2016
None
2017
None
YOUTH BOOKS –
Recommending Reading
2016
SA – Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water
Home Michelle Mulder, author
2017
None
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