2000
Ship of Gold (on the bright blue sea);
Tommy Thompson
Tuesdays with Morrie; Mitch Albom
Who Moved My Cheese;
Days of Grace; Arthur Ashe
Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson
Scientists on Biodiversity; American Natural
History Museum
Achilles in Vietnam; Jonathon Shay
I Don't Want to Talk About It; Terence Real
Beak of the Finch, Jonathon Weiner
Hot Zone, Richard Preston
Worldly Goods, Christopher Joyce
The Testament, John Grisham
Fault Lines, Anne Rivers Siddons
Quitting the Nairobi Trio, Jim Knipfel
Life at the Edge, Scientific American
City Behind A Fence, Charles Johnson &
Charles Jackson
Meely LeBauve, Ken Wells
It's Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong
Celestine Vision, James Redfield
Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders, George
Constantz
Naturalist, Edward O. Wilson
Coal Creek War - Chris Cawood
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2001
The Art of Happiness - Dalai Lama
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
On Human Nature - E. O. Wilson
The Graves of Academe - Richard Mitchell
The Kingdom Within - John Sanford
An Hour Before Daylight - Jimmy Carter
Why Christianity Must Change or Die -
Bishop John Spong
The Battle for God - Karen Armstrong
Religion and Science - Bertrand Russell
Ghost Soldiers - Howard Sides
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
The Circle of Hanh - Bruce Weigl
Texas - James Michener
Skeptics and True Believers - Chet Raymo
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain -
Robert Olen Butler
Straight Man - Richard Russo
Tinkering with Eden - Kim Todd
The Mile High Club - Kinky Friedman
The Journey Home - Edward Abbey
The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
The Riddle of the Compass - Amir D. Aczel
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
Darwin's Radio, Greg Bear
Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins |
2002
The Nature of Life - Great Books Foundation
Plagues and People, William McNeill
Let A Simile be Your Umbrella - William Safire
Children of God - Mary Doria Russell
Blast from the Past - Kinky Friedman
The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living - Martin
Clark
The Great Work - Thomas Berry
Slow Walk in a Sad Rain - John McAfee
Biophilia - E.O. Wilson
The Science of God - Gerald Schroeder
Parasite Rex - Carl Zimmer
Tender at the Bone - Rachel Reich
The Future of Life - E.O. Wilson
The Church of the Dog - Kaya McLaren
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Street Lawyer - John Grisham
Trash - Dorothy Allison
Where Trouble Sleeps - Clyde Edgerton
The Songlines - Bruce Charwin
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho |
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July, July - Tom O'Brien
Empire Falls - Richard Russo
A Death in the Family - James Agee
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
The Courage to Teach - Parker Palmer
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood - Janisse Ray
The VOICE of the INFINITE in the Small - Joanne Elizabeth Lauck
The Four-Fold Way - Angeles Arrien
Life and Death of a Salt Marsh - John and Mildred Teal
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowland
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
A New Christianity for a New World - John Shelby Spong
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
My Losing Season - Pat Conroy
Jean Piaget - Margaret Boden
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Demon in the Freezer - Richard Preston
The Cockroach Papers - Richard Schweid
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
Bones - R. McNeill Alexander
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox - Stephen
Jay Gould |
2004
How I left the Great State of Tennessee
and Went on to Better Things - Joe
Jackson
Second Nature - Michael Pollan
A Natural History of Parenting - Susan Allport
Four Wings and a Prayer - Sue Halpern
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight - Thom Hartmann
A Framework for Understanding Poverty - Ruby Payne
The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come - John Fox, Jr.
For the Love of Insects - Tom Eisner |
2005
Undaunted Courage - Stephen Ambrose
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Rats - Robert Sullivan
1776 - David McCullough
The Golden Spruce - John Vaillant
Absolute Friends - John LeCarre
The Active Life - Parker Palmer
Escape From Laos - Dieter Dengler
Lie Down With Lions - Ken Follett
Against the Grain - Richard Manning
Our Father's War - Tom Mathews
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
The Mismeasure of Man - Stephen Jay Gould |
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2006
Refuge -Terry Tempest Williams
Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
St. Dale - Sharyn McCrumb
A Painted House - John Grisham
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Ballad of Frankie Silver - Sharyn McCrumb
A Gathering of Old Men - Ernest J. Gaines
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
Earthly Pleasures - Roger B. Swain
Texas Hold 'Em - Kinky Friedman
Carved in Bone - Jefferson Bass
Mazel - Hedi Bak
Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott
Changing Lenses - Howard Zehr
Explorations - Wilma Dykeman
If I Die in a Combat Zone - Tim O'Brien
Teacher Man - Frank McCourt |
2007
The Rescue of Bat 21 - Darrel Whitcomb
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
V for Victor - Mark Childress
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Picking Up Jellyfish - Ray Oliver
Nature's Magical Moments - Ellen Hitchcock (my wife)
The Mission Song - John Le Carre
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins
Sleeping at the Starlite Motel- Bailey White
Meridian - Alice Walker
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell - Bertrand. Russell
The Wild Trees - Richard Preston
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini |
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2008
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Guitars & Telescopes - Ray Oliver
Dreams From My Father - Barack Obama
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
World Without End - Ken Follett
A History of the World in 6 Glasses - Tom Standage
A Salty Piece of Land - Jimmy Buffet
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen & David Oliver Relin
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd |
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