What’s On Your Nightstand
Book Recommendations
November 2015
Fiction
Bishop’s Wife - Matte Ivie Harrison Inspired by a chilling true crime and written by a practicing Mormon, a fascinating look
at the lives of modern Mormons as well as a grim and cunningly twisted mystery.
The Children Act - Ian McEwan - a 17 year old boy, is
refusing for religious reasons the medical treatment that could save his life, and his
devout parents echo his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule
sincerely expressed faith?
Consider the Lillies - Ian Smith -
the thoughts and
memories of an old woman who has lived all her life within the narrow confines of her Scottish
Highlands community.
Czar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra collection of interwoven short stories demonstrating how a system (Russia) can erase the past,
the truth, even its citizens and how individual people can restore the things that
have been taken away
Euphoria -Lily King - 3 young anthropologists caught in a
passionate love triangle. inspired by events in the life of Margaret Mead
Irish Country Doctor Series - Patrick Taylor
Last Pilot - Benjamin Johncock- filled with fast
planes, a wide desert, skies larger than the land, and characters whose
aches and pains, hopes and dreams are familiar to us all
The Maytrees - Annie Dillard- the mysteries of
marriage and the nature of forgiveness in this second novel.