Be part of a community of book-lovers. All St. Paul Reads is the annual encouragement to read and talk about a single title in the same year.

This year’s book selection is Night, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel’s memoir about the horror the Holocaust. A scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt for surviving the genocide that consumed his family. The question haunts him: How can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur?
The book marks Wiesel’s lifelong project to bear witness for those who died. Pick up your copy of Night in the Book Corner and join in for soup and discussion in the Library Commons. Discuss Wiesel’s anguishing questions with Katie Hanson of the Augustana College English department.
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2004 | A Grace Disguised by Gerald Sittser
2005 | Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen
2006 | The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
2007 | What’s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey
2008 | The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
2009 | Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
2010 | The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2011 | Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
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