Essential Books for a Friends Meeting Library

( prepared by Tom Hamm of Earlham College)

History:

• Margaret Hope Bacon, The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America (1985)
• Hugh Barbour and J. William Frost, The Quakers (1988, 1995)

Errol T. Elliott, The Quakers on the American Frontier (1969)

• Thomas D. Hamm, The Transformation of American Quakerism: Orthodox Friends, 1800-1907 (1988)
• John Punshon, Portrait in Grey (1985)

Doctrinal:

• Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (various editions)
• Wilmer A. Cooper, A living Faith (1990)

Joseph John Gurney, Observations on the Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends (various editions, most recently issued in A Peculiar People, ed. Ron Selleck)

• Rufus Jones, The Faith and Practice of the Quakers (various editions)
• William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude (various editions)

John Punshon, The Future of the Friends Church

• Jessamyn West, The Quaker Reader (1962, 1992)
• Catherine Whitmire, Plain Living, A Quaker Path to Simplicity (2001)

Biographical / Journals:

• Levi Coffin, Reminiscences (various editions)

• George Fox, Journal (many editions, John L. Nickalls, ed. Recommended
• Mary Garman et al., eds., Hidden in Plain Sight: Early Quaker Women’s Writings (1996)
• H. Larry Ingle, First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism (1994)
• John Woolman, Journal and Major Essays (various editions)

• indicates book is available in New Haven Friends Library