To complete the Friends Women Fellowship Reading Course please read each issue of the Quaker Bonnet and a minimum of one title (listed below) from each of the following four categories: 

• Friends (Quakers) & Classics

• Fiction

• Missions

• Biography & Christian Life.

It is also recommended that all ladies read current Quaker periodicals as available. The four books are to be read completely and individually within the year. A book may be read for credit only once. 

Recognition will be given in the Quaker Bonnet for those completing all requirements for the Reading Course. Books added to the Reading Course will be used for two years. The newest titles are listed first. 

If you would like to see books from previous years, click here.

General Reading Course Prize Drawing: 

• • For every 2 books a person reads from the 2025 Friends Women Reading Course book list (which lists 8 books) she will earn one entry into the General Reading Course Prize Drawing. (Maximum eight entries per person.)

  • There will be three winners drawn from the General Reading Course Prize Drawing and each of the three winners will receive a $10 Visa gift card.

Top Readers Prize Drawing: 

• • If a person reads all 8 new books on the 2025 Friends Women Reading Course book list, she will also earn one entry into the Top Readers Prize Drawing.

  • There will be one winner drawn from the Top Readers Prize Drawing and the winner will receive a $25 Visa gift card.

How to enter:

Each year if you read any 2 books and/or all 8 new books on the Friends Women Reading Course you could win a gift card! Simply fill out a Friends Women Reading Course Prize Drawings Entry Form and mail it to the Reading Course Secretary, Carrie Beyer, by February 15, 2026, and you will be entered into the Friends Women Reading Course Prize Drawings. Individuals may submit their own entry form or the local FWF president may print a Reading Report, fill it out for their entire fellowship, and send it in. 

Download your Entry Form    /   Download your Group Form 

Entry Forms must be postmarked, e-mailed or submitted through the website by February 15, 2026. The Prize Drawings will be held February 28, 2026. Prize winners will be notified and listed in the Spring 2026 edition of the Quaker Bonnet or Quaker Bonnet E-blast.

Questions? Contact Carrie Beyer at 9279 SE Garden Road, Baxter Springs, KS 66713, at 417-317-3792 (mobile) or e-mail her at cbeyer06@gmail.com (be sure to put “Reading Course” in the subject line).

Yearbook: No Charge for Electronic

The Yearbook includes all of the information for your Friends Women Fellowship group for the upcoming year, including monthly meeting devotionals, book list for the Reading Course, info on our missionaries and details for on our projects for the year. Each member of the group should have their own copy. 

EFI-WMF Program Book: No Charge for Electronic/$5.00 for Print

The Evangelical Friends Church International and Women's Missionary Fellowship organizations provide a listing of all Friends missions organizations across the US. This book is a valuable tool for those who want to be praying in one accord with others around the world. It contains a roll call, devotion and verses for 10 months of the coming year. Program books are emailed in a PDF version. If you need printed copies mailed to you, they will be $5.00 a piece. Order yours today, making your check payable to EFC-MAYM Friends Women. 

To order yearbooks or program books, contact Sue Randall (Email)