Friends Journal Book Reviews

Every issue of Friends Journal includes reviews of recently published books that bring illuminating perspectives to Quakers' spiritual and social concerns. Many of the books we cover can be purchased through FGC'S online Quakerbooks store.

Latest Book Reviews

Jennifer Kavanagh - Thread of Life My Russian Legacy Cover

In Brief: Thread of Life: My Russian Legacy

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 1, 2025

The Echo of My Days The Los Stories and Poes of Bessie Smith Stanton Cover

In Brief: The Echo of My Days: The Lost Stories and Poems of Bessie Smith Stanton

Reviewed by Sharlee DiMenichi

August 1, 2025

One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation

Reviewed by Cameron McWhirter

June 1, 2025

Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Reviewed by Jerry Mizell Williams

June 1, 2025

Sowing the Seed of Truth: Orthodox Quaker Sermons of Murray Shipley (1873–1876)

Reviewed by Brian Drayton

June 1, 2025

Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths

Reviewed by Diana Sacerio

June 1, 2025

Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground

Reviewed by Bob Dixon-Kolar

June 1, 2025

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June 1, 2025

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