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CSS Book Club's Reading List & Future Selections


About the Book Club

Typically we meet the 1st Thursday of each month at 2:30 p.m. at the Center.  The posts below for each month's topic will indicate any schedule or location changes.  New members are welcome, and an ongoing commitment is not required.


Authors & Works Under Consideration:

Rumi's World: The Life and Works of the Greatest Sufi Poet (also published as: I Am Wind You Are Fire: The Life and Work of Rumi) by Annemarie Schimmel

A Door Ajar by Alix Taylor

Women of Wisdom by Tsultrim Allione
 

An Interrupted Life: the Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

 Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha's Life by Wendy Garling

Naked Through the Gate (spiritual autobiography) by Joel Morwood

Women Saints of East and West by Swami Ghanananda and John Steward-Wallace

I Give You My Life (spiritual autobiography) by Ayya Khema
 
B. Alan Wallace -- Tom's interview of Alan

Something by or about Sri Anandamayi Ma

Something by or about Julian of Norwich 

Forty Days by Michaela Özelsel

Cave in the Snow: A Western Woman's Quest for Enlightenment by Vicki MacKenzie

 Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie

Something by Pema Chodron


What We're Reading in 2017-2018


 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018           TBD : Passionate Journey: The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myodo by Sallie B King (Also published as: Journey In Search of the Way)

2017
December 2017           Pure Heart Enlightened Mind by Maura O'Halloran 
October 2017            A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
September 2017       cancelled due to local air conditions
June-August             solo "free reading"
May 2017                  main book discussion: Feeding Your Demons
April 2017                  we will watch a film bio of Tsultrim and continue
                                  to read and practice: Feeding Your Demons: by Tsultrim Allione --
March 2017               The Snow Leopard  by Peter Matthiessen
February 2017           Dakini Power by Michaela Haas

2016
December 2016       Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge, by Arthur Osborne 
November 2016       something by Rupert Spira
October 2016           something by Joan Halifax
September 2016      summer break
August 2016             summer break
July 2016                   something by Kathleen Norris
June 2016                  something by Robert Thurman
May 2016                   something by Bruce Feiler
April 2016                  Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Yogananda
March 2016               something by or about Karen Armstrong
February 2016           something by or about Huston Smith
 
2015
December 2015          something by or about Thomas Merton
November 2015          something by or about Simone Weil
September 2015         Confession by Leo Tolstoy
July 2015                    autobiography or biography of Dorothy Day
June 2015                   something about Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 2015                    a biography of Gandha, or Mandala by Pearl Buck
April 2015                   something by or about Hildegard of Bingen
March 2015                Man to Match His Mountain by Eknath Easwaran
February 2015            Crooked Cucumber by David Chadwick
2014  
December 2014        Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
November 2014        Street Zen by Issan Dorsey
November 2014        formation meeting