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Many of the books are presently in print, 4-99
For Adults
General
Allen, Richard. YOURS IN FRIENDSHIP: AN OPEN LETTER TO ENQUIRERS. Quaker Homes Service, 1995.
Brinton, Howard H. FRIENDS FOR 300 YEARS: THE HISTORY AND BELIEFS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS SINCE GEORGE FOX STARTED THE QUAKER MOVEMENT. Pendle Hill, 1965. (FGC)
Brinton, Howard H. GUIDE TO QUAKER PRACTICE. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 20. Pendle Hill, 1955.
Britain Yearly Meeting. QUAKER FAITH AND PRACTICE. 1995.
Gillman, Harvey. A LIGHT THAT IS SHINING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE QUAKERS. Quaker Home Service, 1988.
Hubbard, Geoffrey. QUAKER BY CONVINCEMENT. Penguin, 1964. (FGC)
Jones, Rufus M. FAITH AND PRACTICE OF THE QUAKERS. Friends United Press, 1997.
Kenworthy, Leonard. QUAKERISM: A STUDY GUIDE. Prinit Pr., 1981. (FGC)
Peck, George. WHAT IS QUAKERISM? A PRIMER. Pendle Hill Pamphlet #277. Pendle Hill, 1988. (FGC)
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. FAITH AND PRACTICE. PYM, 1997. (FGC)
Trueblood, D. Elton. THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS. Friends United Pr., 1971.
West, Jessamyn. THE QUAKER READER. Viking, 1962.
Early Quaker Writings
Barclay, Robert. BARCLAY'S APOLOGY IN MODERN ENGLISH. Edited by Dean Freiday. Philadelphia YM, 1967. (FGC)
Bownas, Samuel, 1676-1753. A DESCRIPTION OF THE QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO BE A GOSPEL MINISTER: ADVICE TO MINISTERS AND ELDERS AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS. Pendle Hill, 1989. (Available from FGC)
Fox, George. THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE FOX. Ed. by John Nickalls; with an epilogue by Henry J. Cadbury and an introduction by Geoffrey Nuttall. London, Religious Society of Friends, 1952-1975. (FGC)
A BRIEF STUDY GUIDE TO THE JOURNAL OF GEORGE FOX; WITH REFERENCES TO THE REVISED EDITION BY JOHN NICKALLS. Compiled by John Curtis, 1976.
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: QUAKER WOMENS WRITINGS 1650-1700. Pendle Hill, 1996. 540p.
Fox, George. NO MORE BUT MY LOVE: LETTERS, 1624-1691. Cecil W. Sharman, ed. Quaker Home Service, 1980. Balanced selection from Fox's epistles.
Penington, Isaac. THE LIGHT WITHIN AND SELECTED WRITINGS. Tract Assn, 1984.
Penn, William. NO CROSS, NO CROWN. Modern English edition abridged and edited by Ronald Selleck. Friends United Press, 1981.
QUAKER CLASSICS IN BRIEF. (Penn, Barclay, Penington) Eleanore Price Mather, ed. Pendle Hill, 1978. (FGC)
Steere, Douglas V., ed. QUAKER SPIRITUALITY: SELECTED WRITINGS. Paulist, 1984. (Classics of Western Sprirituality series) (FGC)
Trevett, Christine, ed. WOMENS SPEAKING JUSTIFIED, AND OTHER SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY QUAKER WRITINGS ABOUT WOMEN. Quaker Home Service, 1989.
WILT THOU GO ON MY ERRAND? THREE 18TH CENTURY JOURNALS OF QUAKER WOMEN MINISTERS: SUSANNA MORRIS, 1682-1755; ELIZABETH HUDSON, 1722-1783; ANN MOORE, 1710-1783. Edited by Margaret Hope Bacon. Pendle Hill, 1994. 400p.
Woolman, John. THE JOURNAL AND MAJOR ESSAYS OF JOHN WOOLMAN. Ed. by Phillips P. Moulton. Oxford University Press, 1971. (FGC)
Spirituality, Beliefs, Worship
Abbott, Margery Post. A CERTAIN KIND OF PERFECTION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF EVANGELICAL AND LIBERAL QUAKER WRITERS. PendleHill, 1997. 305p.
Benson, Lewis. CATHOLIC QUAKERISM: A VISION FOR ALL MEN. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1966. Controversial, but important to many. (Available from FGC)
Boulding, Kenneth E. THERE IS A SPIRIT; THE NAYLOR SONNETS. Fellowship Pubs, 1945.
Brinton, Howard H. QUAKER JOURNALS. Pendle Hill, 1972. (FGC)
Cooper, Wilmer. A LIVING FAITH; AN HISTORICAL STUDY OF QUAKER BELIEFS. Friends United Press, 1990. (FGC)
Fager, Chuck. A RESPONDANT SPARK: THE BASICS OF BIBLE STUDY. Kimo Press, 1984. 105p.
Foster, Richard J. CELEBRATION OF DISCIPLINE: THE PATH TO SPIRITUAL GROWTH. Harper & Row, 1988.
Fox, George. EARLY PROPHETIC OPENINGS OF GEORGE FOX. Friends Tract Association 1962. Extracts from Fox's Journal.
Freiday, Dean. SPEAKING AS A FRIEND. Barclay, 1995.
Gorman, George H. THE AMAZING FACT OF QUAKER WORSHIP. Swarthmore Lecture. Friends Home Service Comm., 1973. (FGC)
A GUIDE TO TRUE PEACE, OR THE EXCELLENCY OF INWARD AND SPIRITUAL PRAYER. Introduction by Howard Brinton. Pendle Hill. Perennial devotional classic compiled by Quakers from writings of Catholic mystics. (FGC)
Gwyn, Douglas. APOCALYPSE OF THE WORD; THE LIFE AND MESSAGE OF GEORGE FOX. Friends United Pr., 1986. (FGC)
Gwyn, Douglas. UNMASKING THE IDOLS; A JOURNEY AMONG FRIENDS. Friends United Pr., 1989. (FGC)
Kelly, Thomas R. TESTAMENT OF DEVOTION. Harper & Row, 1941. With a biographical memoir by Douglas Steere. (FGC)
Kelly, Thomas R. THE ETERNAL PROMISE. (Includes "The Gathered Meeting") Harper & Row, 1966. (FGC)
LISTENING HEARTS: DISCERNING CALL IN COMMUNITY. Morehouse, 1991.
Loring, Patricia. LISTENING SPIRITUALITY: VOLUME 1, PERSONAL SPIRITUAL PRACTICES AMONG FRIENDS. Opening Press, 1997.
OPENING DOORS TO QUAKER WORSHIP. Friends General Conference, 1994.
Punshon, John. ENCOUNTER WITH SILENCE; REFLECTIONS FROM THE QUAKER TRADITION. Friends United Pr., 1987. (FGC)
Punshon, John. TESTIMONY AND TRADITION; SOME ASPECTS OF QUAKER SPIRITUALITY. Quaker Home Service, 1990.
QUAKER SPIRITUALITY: SELECTED WRITINGS. Edited and introduced by DouglasSteere. Paulist, 1984. 334p.
QUAKER UNIVERSALIST NUMBER I: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, ADDRESSES AND LECTURES. Quaker Unversalist Fellowship.
RECLAIMING A RESOURCE: PAPERS FROM THE FRIENDS BIBLE CONFERENCE, PHILADELPHIA, ELEVENTH MONTH 10-12, 1989. Edited by Chuck Fager. Kimo Pr., 1990.
Sheeran, Michael. BEYOND MAJORITY RULE: VOTELESS DECISIONS IN THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1983. (FGC)
Spears, Joanne. FRIENDLY BIBLE STUDY. Friends General Conference, 1990. 16p.
Stephen, Caroline. QUAKER STRONGHOLDS. Wind and Rock Press, 1995.
Steere, Douglas. INTRODUCTION FROM QUAKER SPIRITUALITY. PYM, 1988.
Steere, Douglas. ON SPEAKING OUT OF THE SILENCE: VOCAL MINISTRY IN THE UNPROGRAMMED MEETING FOR WORSHIP. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 182. Pendle Hill, 1972. (FGC)
Tabor, William. FOUR DOORS TO MEETING FOR WORSHIP. Pendle Hill, 1992.
Wilson, Lloyd Lee. ESSAYS ON THE QUAKER VISION OF GOSPEL ORDER. 1993. (FGC)
Testimonies and Concerns
American Friends Service Committee. TAKING CHARGE OF OUR LIVES: LIVING RESPONSIBLY IN THE WORLD. Edited by Joan Bodner. Harper & Row, 1984.
Bacon, Margaret. MOTHERS OF FEMINISM; THE STORY OF QUAKER WOMEN IN AMERICA. Harper & Row, 1986.
BECOMING A FRIEND TO THE CREATION: EARTHCARE LEAVEN FOR FRIENDS AND FRIENDS MEETINGS. Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, 1994.
Bishop, Elaine. CELEBRATION: FRIENDS AND SOME ASPECTS OF A STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE. Canadian Quaker pamplet no. 18. Argenta Friends Pr., 1984. Brief historical look at Friends and the "criminal processing system."
Boulding, Kenneth E. MENDING THE WORLD; QUAKER INSIGHTS ON THE SOCIAL ORDER. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 266. Pendle Hill, 1986.
Brock, Peter. THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY, 1660-1914. Sessions, 1990.
Brown, Elizabeth Potts and Stuard, Susan Mosher. WITNESSES FOR CHANGE: QUAKER WOMEN OVER THREE CENTURIES. Rutgers Univ. Pr,1989.
Dale, Jonathan. BEYOND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE: QUAKER SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AT THE END OF THE 2OTH CENTURY. Swarthmore lecture, 1996.
FRIENDS FACE THE WORLD: SOME CONTINUING AND CURRENT QUAKER CONCERNS. Ed. by Leonard Kenworthy. Friends General Conference, 1987.
Cox, Gray. BEARING WITNESS: QUAKER PROCESS AND A CULTURE OF PEACE. Pendle Hill pamphlet 262. Pendle Hill, 1985.
Cronk, Sondra. PEACE BE WITH YOU; A STUDY OF THE SPIRITUAL BASIS OF THE FRIENDS PEACE TESTIMONY. Tract Association, n.d. (FGC)
Curle, Adam. TRUE JUSTICE: QUAKER PEACE MAKERS AND PEACE MAKING. Swarthmore Lecture. Quaker Home Service, 1981.
Jonas, Gerald. ON DOING GOOD. Scribners, 1971.
Kenworthy, Leonard. FRIENDS FACE THE WORLD: SOME CONTINUING AND CURRENT QUAKER CONCERNS. FGC, 1987.
Massey, Marshall. THE DEFENSE OF THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM. Pacific YM, 1985. (Social order series, 2) Environmental concerns.
Mendl, Wolf. PROPHETS AND RECONCILERS: REFLECTIONS ON THE QUAKER PEACE TESTIMONY. Swarthmore Lecture. Friends Home Service Committee, 1974.
Nicholson, Frederick J. QUAKERS AND THE ARTS: A SURVEY OF THE ATTITUDES OF BRITISH FRIENDS TO THE CREATIVE ARTS FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Friends Home Service Committee, 1968. 122p.
Peck, George. SIMPLICITY: A RICH QUAKER'S VIEW. Pendle Hill pamphlet 189. Pendle Hill, 1973.
SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR SOCIAL ACTION. (Studies in Quakerism, 14) Progresiv Publishr, 1987.
Snyder, Edward F. WITNESS IN WASHINGTON: FIFTY YEARS OF FRIENDLY PERSUASION. Friends United Press, 1994.
Swayne, Kingdon. STEWARDSHIP OF WEALTH. Pendle Hill pamphlet 259. Pendle Hill,1985.
History
Bacon, Margaret Hope. THE QUIET REBELS: THE STORY OF THE QUAKERS IN AMERICA. Basic Books, 1969.
Barbour, Hugh and William J. Frost. THE QUAKERS. Greenwood Pr., 1988.
Braithwaite, William C. THE BEGINNINGS OF QUAKERISM. 2nd edition, Henry J. Cadbury ed. William Sessions, 1981. 585p. (FGC)
Braithwaite, William C. THE SECOND PERIOD OF QUAKERISM. 2nd edition. Henry J. Cadbury ed. William Sessions, 1979. (FGC)
Comfort, William Wistar. WILLIAM PENN AND OUR LIBERTIES. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1975. (FGC)
Dunn, Mary Maples. WILLIAM PENN: POLITICS AND CONSCIENCE. Princeton U. Pr., 1967. (FGC)
Fager, Chuck. WITHOUT APOLOGY: THE HEROES, THE HERITAGE AND THE HOPE OF LIBERAL QUAKERISM. Kimo Press, 1996. 170p.
FOR EMANCIPATION AND EDUCATION. By Margaret Bacon, et al. Awbury Arboretum Association, 1997.
FRIENDS IN CIVILIAN PUBLIC SERVICE: QUAKER CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS INWORLD WAR II LOOK BACK AND LOOK AHEAD. Pendle Hill, 1998. 347p.
Frost, J. William. THE QUAKER FAMILY IN COLONIAL AMERICA. St. Martin's Pr., 1973.
Gwyn, Douglas. THE COVENANT CRUCIFIED: QUAKERS AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM. Pendle Hill, 1995. 403p.
Hadley, Herbert M. QUAKERS WORLDWIDE; A HISTORY OF FRIENDS WORLD COMMITTEE FOR CONSULTATION. Sessions, 1991. (FGC)
Hamm, Thomas D. THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN QUAKERISM: ORTHODOX FRIENDS, 1800-1907. Indiana University, 1988.
Hill, Christopher. THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN: RADICAL IDEAS DURING THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION. Penguin, 1975.
Holden, David. FRIENDS DIVIDED: CONFLICT AND DIVISION IN THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. Friends United Pr., 1988. (FGC)
Ingle, Larry. QUAKERS IN CONFLICT; THE HICKSITE REFORMATION. Univ. of Tennessee Pr., 1986.
Mather, Eleanore Price. EDWARD HICKS: HIS PEACEABLE KINGDOMS AND OTHER PAINTINGS. Univ. of Delaware Pr., 1983.
Moore, John M. FRIENDS IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY; PHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING, 1681-1981. Friends Historical Assoc., 1981.
Newman, Daisy. A PROCESSION OF FRIENDS: QUAKERS IN AMERICA. Doubleday, 1972. (FGC)
Punshon, John. PORTRAIT IN GRAY; A SHORT HISTORY OF THE QUAKERS. Quaker Home Service, 1984. (FGC)
Tolles, Frederick B. MEETING HOUSE AND COUNTING HOUSE: THE QUAKER MERCHANTS OF COLONIAL PHILADELPHIA, 1682-1763. Norton, 1963.
Tolles, Frederick B. QUAKER REFLECTIONS TO LIGHT THE FUTURE; A COLLECTION OF PICTURES. Foreward by Henry J. Cadbury. FGC, 1967.
Wilson, Robert H. PHILADELPHIA QUAKERS, 1681-1981. PYM, 1981. (FGC)
Memoirs and Biographies
Bacon, Margaret Hope. LET THIS LIFE SPEAK. (Henry Cadbury) (FGC)
Bacon, Margaret Hope. VALIANT FRIEND. (Lucretia Mott) (FGC)
Comfort, William Wistar. WILLIAM PENN AND OUR LIBERTIES. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1975.
Damrosch, Leo. THE SORROWS OF THE QUAKER JESUS: JAMES NAYLER AND THE PURITAN CRACKDOWN ON THE FREE SPIRIT. Harverd University Press, 1996. 322p.
Ingle, H. Larry. FIRST AMONG FRIENDS: GEORGE FOX AND THE CREATION OF QUAKERISM. Oxford University, 1994.
Ives, Kenneth, ed. BLACK QUAKERS: BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES. Progresiv Publishr, 1986. (FGC)
Kenworthy, Leonard. LIVING IN THE LIGHT: SOME QUAKER PIONEERS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Vol. I and II. FGC, 1984. (FGC)
Kolp, Alan. FRESH WINDS OF THE SPIRIT. Friends United Press, 1991.
McGowan, James A. STATION MASTER ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD: THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS GARRETT. Whimsie Press, 1977.
Newman, Daisy. A GOLDEN STRING. Harper & Row, 1986. (FGC)
Newby, James R. ELTON TRUEBLOOD: BELIEVER, TEACHER AND FRIEND. Harper & Row, 1990.
Olmstead, Sterling. MOTIONS OF LOVE: WOOLMAN AS MYSTIC AND ACTIVIST. Pendle Hill, 1993.
Pullinger, Edna. A DREAM OF PEACE: EDWARD HICKS OF NEWTOWN. Dorrance, 1973.
Ross, Isabel. MARGARET FELL: MOTHER OF QUAKERISM. William Sessions, 1984.
Sharman, Cecil. GEORGE FOX AND THE QUAKERS. Friends United Press, 1991.
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. QUIET PILGRIMAGE. Lippincott, 1970.
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. FRIEND OF LIFE (Rufus Jones). Michael Joseph, 1958. (FGC)
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. PENN. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1986. (FGC)
West, Jessamyn. THE WOMAN SAID YES. Harcourt, 1976.
Fiction
Allen, Irene. (3 murder mysteries)
de Hartog, Jan. THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM: AN AMERICAN SAGA. Atheneum, 1972.
Donne-Smith, Basil. MUCH MADDER: THE CHRONICLES OF A QUAKER MEETING. Crewkerne, Somerset, England, Countryside Library, 1975.
Ellin, Stanley. STRONGHOLD. Penguin, 1974.
Hitchman, Janet. MEETING FOR BURIAL. Atheneum, 1968.
Morse, David. THE IRON BRIDGE. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1998. 436p.
Newman, Daisy. DILIGENCE IN LOVE. Popular Library, 1951. (FGC)
Newman, Daisy. I TAKE THEE, SERENITY. Houghton, 1975. (FGC)
Newman, Daisy. INDIAN SUMMER OF THE HEART. Houghton Mifflin, 1982. (FGC)
Newman, Daisy. THE AUTUMN'S BRIGHTNESS. Friends United Press, 1991 [c1954]
West, Jessamyn. FRIENDLY PERSUASION. Harcourt, 1976.
West, Jessamyn. EXCEPT FOR THEE AND ME. Harcourt, 1969.
For children
Non-fiction
Elgin, Kathleen. THE QUAKERS: THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. With a foreword by Richmond P. Miller. McKay, 1968.
Hadley, Abby Atwater. WE'RE GOING TO MEETING FOR WORSHIP. FGC, 1972. (FGC)
LIGHTING CANDLES IN THE DARK. Ed. by Elinor Briggs, Marnie Passmore, Carol Passmore. A revision of CANDLES IN THE DARK, with 29 new stories.
THE QUAKER WAY. Revised and updated by Friends General Conference Religious Education Committee. Illustratred by Signe Wilkinson. FGC, 1998. 96p.
QUAKERS. Cobblestone, 1995.
TO LIGHT CANDLES IN THE DARK: A STUDY GUIDE. By Mary Esther McWhirter, Caroline Pineo and Janet Schroeder. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Religious Education Committee, 1968.
Biographies
Aliki. THE STORY OF WILLIAM PENN. Prentice-Hall, 1994.
Bryant, Jennifer Fisher. LUCRETIA MOTT: A GUIDING LIGHT. Eerdmans, 1996.
Dowers, Jeffrey S. LEVI COFFIN: A FRIEND TO THE SLAVES. Friends United Press, 1992.
Foulds, Elfrida Vipont. A FAITH TO LIVE BY. FGC, 1962.
Henry, Marguerite. BENJAMIN WEST AND HIS CAT, GRIMALKIN. Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. (FGC)
Holden, Joyce. MY BOOK OF FRIENDS. (FGC)
Sawyer, Kem K. LUCRETIA MOTT: FRIEND OF JUSTICE. Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1991. Beautifully illustrated.
Snow, Dorothea J. BENJAMIN WEST: GIFTED YOUNG PAINTER. Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.
Vernon, Louise. A KEY TO THE PRISON. (FGC)
Yolen, Jane. FRIEND: THE STORY OF GEORGE FOX AND THE QUAKERS. Seabury, 1972.
Fiction
Batten, Juliet. ZOE GOES TO MEETING. Quaker Home Service, 1986. (FGC) Picture book.
Beatty, Patricia. WHO COMES WITH CANNONS? Morrow, 1992.
Cromer, Mary Leonhard. STORIES FOR JASON: TALES OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Friends United Press, 1993. 108p.
De Angeli, Marguerite. THEE, HANNAH! Doubleday, 1941. (FGC)
Foulds, Elfrida Vipont. BLOW THE MAN DOWN. Heinemann, 1972.
Janoe, Barbara. DANIEL GOES TO MEETING. Family and Life Enrichment Service, 1988. Picture book.
QUAKERS ON THE MOVE: A STORYBOOK OF QUAKER HISTORY FROM 1652 TO TODAY. Friends General Conference, 1996.
Speare, Elizabeth George. THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND. Dell, 1972. (FGC)
Turkle, Brinton. THE ADVENTURES OF OBADIAH. Viking, 1972. (FGC) Picture book.
Turkle, Brinton. OBADIAH THE BOLD. Viking, 1965. (FGC) Picture book.
Turkle, Brinton. RACHEL AND OBADIAH. (FGC) Picture book.
Turkle, Brinton. THY FRIEND, OBADIAH. Viking, 1969. (FGC) Picture book.
Underwood, Betty. THE TAMARACK TREE. Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
Vernon, Louise A. KEY TO THE PRISON. Herald Press, 1968. (FGC)
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