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November 2015 Books

Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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February 2023 Books

Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding Them in Quaker Records (Second Edition)

By Ellen Thomas Berry and David Allen Berry, edited by Jana Sloan Broglin. Genealogical Publishing Company, 2022. 152 pages. $28.50/paperback.…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

Process: the Good, the Poor, & Schisms

It is my experience that good Quaker process helps us unite in finding God’s path forward and in building community,…

Mathilda Navias

Books: April 2014

This month's reviews include The Essential Elias Hicks, The Oxford Handbook of Quaker Studies, and A Guidebook to Prayer.

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November 2025 Books

The First American Quaker Discipline: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Rules of Discipline and Practice from 1704

Transcribed and edited by David R. Haines. Pleasant Green Books, 2024. 80 pages. $16/paperback; $8/eBook. “What Canst We Say?” The…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

June/July 2025 Books

In Brief: Beyond Chocolate: Adrian Cadbury, Life, Loss, and Leadership

By Patrick Donovan. Unicorn, 2024. 320 pages. $35.95/hardcover; $37.50/eBook. Most Friends today know about the Quaker roots of the famous…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

October 2022 Books

Quaker Service: A Report from Philadelphia

Edited by Gregory A. Barnes. Friends Press, 2022. 172 pages. $12/paperback; $8/eBook. This “Report from Philadelphia” might also be entitled…

Reviewed by Thomas D. Hamm

Quaker Book Reviews

Passion and Partings: The Dying Sayings of Early Quakers

By Jane Mace. Quacks Books, 2020. 142 pages. $19.99/paperback. Available at pendlehill.org. Most Friends are familiar with memorial minutes: the…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

August 2020 Books

William Penn’s “Holy Experiment”: Quaker Truth in Pennsylvania, 1682–1781

By James Proud. Inner Light Books, 2019. 522 pages. $50/hardcover; $35/paperback. James Proud, a retired attorney and an Episcopal priest,…

Reviewed by Thomas Hamm

Forum, August 2017

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