Choir During Quarantine: The Booklist



The Choir Collaboration during Quarantine: Some of our favorite books*

*only one instance of an author appears even though several books from a series may have been nominated







The Man Who Moved A Mountain, Richard Davids

Small Great Things, Jodi Piccoult

The Garden of Small Beginnings, Abbi Waxman

At Home In Mitford, Jan Karon

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

The Silver Trumpet, Owen Barfield

The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis

Feels Like Falling, Kristy Woodson Harvey

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter, Barbara Robinette Moss

Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens

The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury

Tales From Grace Chapel Inn, Various Authors

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen


An Army At Dawn, Rick Atkinson

The Wishing Chair Collection, Enid Blyton

The Shoemaker’s Wife, Adriana Trigiani

Janye Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

Bryson City Tales, Walt Larimore, MD

Still Life, Louise Penny

A Thread of Grace, by Mary Doria Russell

Firefly Lane, Kristin Hannah

From Scratch, Tembi Locke

A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan

The Eye of the Elephant, Mark and Delia Owens

The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay

Follow The River James Alexander Thom

Christy, Catherine Marshall

The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson







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