UWF Reading Program

New books in the UWF 2024 Reading Program are available on the new book cart in the Fellowship Hall! Browse the books as you enjoy your coffee or tea. Feel free to borrow any that you’d like to read. Please return the books to the cart in a timely manner, so others can enjoy reading too! Our El Camino District Program Resources Chair, Carolyn Bircher, prepared wonderful PDF lists of all the books on all the lists, 2019 to 2024, including the number of copies at local libraries!! Please click on the following link for the PDF lists: <https://elcaminorealumw.org/educate/reading-program/#2024-reading-program> Contact Mary Chafey if you have questions or need help finding the books. The Reading Program will give you a certificate in October if you read at least one book out of each of five sections, and Response magazine, also available on the book cart and in the Fellowship Hall.

Some stand-outs:
“They Called Us Enemy” by George Takei; topic: Japanese incarceration
“The Proudest Blue” by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S.K. Ali; children’s book about Muslim Hijabs
“Becoming” by Michelle Obama; topic: personal development
“Beautiful Country: Memoir” by Qian Julie Wang; topic: undocumented immigration
“The Loneliness Epidemic: Why so many of us Feel Alone” by Susan Mettes
“Beating Guns: Hope for People who are Weary of Violence” by Shane Claiborne & Michael Martin
“Saving Us: Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope & Healing in a Divided World” by Katherine Hayhoe
“The Four Winds” novel by Kristin Hannah: topic prejudice, the dust bowl
“Not Your Princess: Voices of Native American Women” by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale; topic: writing/art of Native Americans