Sunday, October 13, 2019

{pages} Non-Fiction Book Cluib: Year Three

Here's all of the books we voted on and selected in our second year (Sep. 2018 - Aug. 2019)


MonthCategoryTitleAuthorVotes
Sep 2018Armchair travel and adventureLands of Lost BordersKate Harris39
NorthlandPorter Fox38
The Promise of the Grand CanyonJon F. Ross32
Nothing to EnvyBarbara Demick30
The Desert and the SeaMichael Scott29
Don't Make Me Pull OverRichard Ratay22
Arabia FelixThorkild Hansen16
Oct 2018100 year anniversary of WWI armisticeDead WakeErik Larson58
The Escape ArtistsNeal Bascomb49
The Great War and Modern MemoryPaul Fussell38
Goodbye to All ThatRobert Graves29
Paris 1919Margaret McMillan20
To End All WarsAdam Hochschild19
LeninVictor Sebestyn17
Nov 2018True CrimeThe Library BookSusan Orlean81
The Spy and the TraitroqBen MacIntyre41
Blood & IvyPaul Collins34
I'll be Gone in the DarkMichelle McNamara28
The Fact of a BodyAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich26
The Feather ThiefWallace Johnson23
Beneath a Ruthless SunGilbert King0
Jan 2019no categoryBecomingMichelle Obamachosen by unrecorded in-store vote to replace Ninth Street Women.
American PrisonShane Bauer
Fredrick DouglassDavid W. Blight
HeartlandSarah Smarsh
Small FryLIsa Brennan-Jobs
Feb 2019Very short booksThe Fifth RiskMichael Lewis56
Hello WorldHannah Fry55
Never CaughtErica Armstrong Dunbar46
ThickTressie McMillan31
One Person, No VoteCarol Anderson15
All You Can Ever KnowNicole Chung11
HeavyKiese Laymon0
Mar 2019Door StopsNinth Street WomenMary Gabriel54
These TruthsJill Lepore44
She Has her Mother's LaughCarl Zimmer39
The Browns of CaliforniaMiriam Pawel37
The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson33
Presidents of WarMichael Beschloss19
Rise and Kill FirstRonenBergen19
Frederick DouglassDavid W. Blight18
Apr 2019LA Times Book PrizeThe Browns of CaiforniaMiriam Pawel73
EmpressRuby Lai72
The Line Becomes a RiverFrancisco Cantu56
The Hour of the LandTerry Tempest Williams31
DopesickBeth Macy27
American EdenVictoria Johnson22
Nine PintsRose George22
May 2019MusicMusicophiliaOliver Sacks57
Something WonderfiulTodd S. Purdum44
Sounds Like TitanicJessica Chiccehito Hindman43
Kill 'Em and LeaveJames McBride42
Burning Down the HausTim Mohr34
Born to RunBruce Springsteen21
The Birth of LoudIan S. Port13
June 2019Technology and its DiscontentsBad BloodJohn Carreyou38
Automating InequalityVirginia Eubanks25
ZuckedRoger McNamee17
CodersClive Thompson16
BehemothJoshua B. Freeman15
BrotopiaEmily Chang8
July 2019Apollo AnniversaryRocket MenRobert Kurson59
Rise of the Rocket GirlsNathalia Holt43
The Moon Oliver Morton27
SpacemanMichael Massimino17
The Right StuffTom Wolfe11
AstoundingAlec Nevala-Lee4
August 2019Best of 2019 so farSay NothingPatrick Radden Keefe77
Sea PeopleChristina Thompson63
Furious HoursCasey Cep39
UnderlandRobert McFarlane24
Diderot and the Art of Thinking FreelyAndrew S. Curran23
Under Red SkiesKaroline Kan22
Survival MathMitchell Jackson6

Friday, September 20, 2019

{pages} Non-Fiction Book Cluib: Year Two

Here's all of the books we voted on and selected in our second year (Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2018)


MonthCategoryTitleAuthorVotes
Sep 2017Sports and CompetitionBarbarian DaysWilliam Finnegan39
The Boys in the BoatDaniel James Brown31
String TheoryDavid Foster Wallace27
The Cylist Who Went Out in the ColdTim Moore20
Deep ThinkingGary Kasparov14
Friday Night LightsH. G. Bissinger11
Sting Like a BeeLeigh Montville4
Oct 2017Gender and SocietyTestosterone RexCordelia Fine53
The ArgonautsMaggie Nelson51
In the DarkroomSusan Faludi36
Daring to DriveManal Al-Sharif23
The Unwomanly Face of WarSvetlana Alexievich19
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too LoudAnne Helen Peterson9
HungerRoxane Gay4
Nov 2017Literature and StorytellingEverybody Behaves BadlyLesley M. M. Blume56
Reading with PatrickMichele Kuo46
The Rise and Fall of Adam and EveStephen Greenblatt43
Wild ThingsBruce Handy41
The Storytelling AnimalJonathan Gottschall41
An OdysseyDaniel Mendelsohn36
Where the Past BeginsAmy Tan13
The Empire of NecessityGreg Grandin9
Jan 2018Door StopsLeonardo da VinciWalter Isaacson92
GrantRon Chernow65
BehaveRobert M. Sapolsky51
The EvangelicalsFrances Fitzgerald28
The Better Angels of Our NatureStephen Pinker21
Stamped from the BeginningIbram X Kendi19
Feb 2018Best of 2017Ghosts of the TsunamiRichard Lloyd Parry56
The Woman who Smashed CodesJason Fagone54
Ants Among ElephantsSujatha Gilda41
PriestdaddyPatricia Lockwood38
American FireMonica Hesse37
The Blood of Emmet TillTimothy B. Tyson32
The Butchering ArtLindsey Fitzharris12
Bunk Kevin Young11
March 2018The bigger picture on current eventsEnlightenment NowStephen Pinker77
Nothing to EnvyBarbara Demick33
The Line Becomes a RiverFrancisco Cantu32
How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt23
JanesvilleAmy Goldstein13
White RageCarol Anderson4
April 2018Food and drinkThe Food ExplorerDaniel Stone60
Cork DorkBianca Bosker48
The Milk Lady of BangaloreShoba Narayan37
What She AteLaura Shapiro35
Blood, Bones & ButterGabrielle Hamilton27
The Cooking GeneMichael W. Twitty14
May 2018ReligionEducatedTara Westover78
The EvangelicalsFrances Fitzgerald44
In the Days of RainRebecca Stott37
If the Oceans Were InkCarla Power37
The Triumph of ChristianityBart D. Ehrman31
The Givenness of ThingsMarilynne Robinson31
The People and the BooksAdam Kirsch19
InfidelAyaan Hirsi Ali14
June 2018Los AngelesThe Mirage FactoryGary Krist88
High NoonGlenn Frankel49
Hitler in Los AngelesSteven J. Ross47
Always RunningLuis J. Rodriguez36
Eternity StreetJohn Mack Faragher24
Eve's HollywoodEve Babitz22
The Grim SleeperChristine Pelisek4
July 2018first half of 2018CalypsoDavid Sedaris79
BarracoonZora Neale Hurston49
Bullshit JobsDavid Graeber28
Bad BloodJohn Carreyrou23
The Woman's HourElaine Weiss20
Patriot Number OneLauren Hilgers18
The Infernal LibraryDaniel Kalder8
Aug 2018Summer Vacation- members nominateThe Woman Who Smashed CodesJason Fagone55
Something WonderfulTodd S. Purdum40
Code GirlsLiza Mundy38
Choose Your Own DisasterDana Schwartz30
Shrill Lindy West26
The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson21

{pages} Non-Fiction Book Cluib: Year Three

Here's all of the books we voted on and selected in our second year (Sep. 2018 - Aug. 2019) Month Category Title Author Votes Sep 2...