| Month | Category | Title | Author | Votes |
| Sep 2018 | Armchair travel and adventure | Lands of Lost Borders | Kate Harris | 39 |
| Northland | Porter Fox | 38 | ||
| The Promise of the Grand Canyon | Jon F. Ross | 32 | ||
| Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick | 30 | ||
| The Desert and the Sea | Michael Scott | 29 | ||
| Don't Make Me Pull Over | Richard Ratay | 22 | ||
| Arabia Felix | Thorkild Hansen | 16 | ||
| Oct 2018 | 100 year anniversary of WWI armistice | Dead Wake | Erik Larson | 58 |
| The Escape Artists | Neal Bascomb | 49 | ||
| The Great War and Modern Memory | Paul Fussell | 38 | ||
| Goodbye to All That | Robert Graves | 29 | ||
| Paris 1919 | Margaret McMillan | 20 | ||
| To End All Wars | Adam Hochschild | 19 | ||
| Lenin | Victor Sebestyn | 17 | ||
| Nov 2018 | True Crime | The Library Book | Susan Orlean | 81 |
| The Spy and the Traitroq | Ben MacIntyre | 41 | ||
| Blood & Ivy | Paul Collins | 34 | ||
| I'll be Gone in the Dark | Michelle McNamara | 28 | ||
| The Fact of a Body | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich | 26 | ||
| The Feather Thief | Wallace Johnson | 23 | ||
| Beneath a Ruthless Sun | Gilbert King | 0 | ||
| Jan 2019 | no category | Becoming | Michelle Obama | chosen by unrecorded in-store vote to replace Ninth Street Women. |
| American Prison | Shane Bauer | |||
| Fredrick Douglass | David W. Blight | |||
| Heartland | Sarah Smarsh | |||
| Small Fry | LIsa Brennan-Jobs | |||
| Feb 2019 | Very short books | The Fifth Risk | Michael Lewis | 56 |
| Hello World | Hannah Fry | 55 | ||
| Never Caught | Erica Armstrong Dunbar | 46 | ||
| Thick | Tressie McMillan | 31 | ||
| One Person, No Vote | Carol Anderson | 15 | ||
| All You Can Ever Know | Nicole Chung | 11 | ||
| Heavy | Kiese Laymon | 0 | ||
| Mar 2019 | Door Stops | Ninth Street Women | Mary Gabriel | 54 |
| These Truths | Jill Lepore | 44 | ||
| She Has her Mother's Laugh | Carl Zimmer | 39 | ||
| The Browns of California | Miriam Pawel | 37 | ||
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | 33 | ||
| Presidents of War | Michael Beschloss | 19 | ||
| Rise and Kill First | RonenBergen | 19 | ||
| Frederick Douglass | David W. Blight | 18 | ||
| Apr 2019 | LA Times Book Prize | The Browns of Caifornia | Miriam Pawel | 73 |
| Empress | Ruby Lai | 72 | ||
| The Line Becomes a River | Francisco Cantu | 56 | ||
| The Hour of the Land | Terry Tempest Williams | 31 | ||
| Dopesick | Beth Macy | 27 | ||
| American Eden | Victoria Johnson | 22 | ||
| Nine Pints | Rose George | 22 | ||
| May 2019 | Music | Musicophilia | Oliver Sacks | 57 |
| Something Wonderfiul | Todd S. Purdum | 44 | ||
| Sounds Like Titanic | Jessica Chiccehito Hindman | 43 | ||
| Kill 'Em and Leave | James McBride | 42 | ||
| Burning Down the Haus | Tim Mohr | 34 | ||
| Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 21 | ||
| The Birth of Loud | Ian S. Port | 13 | ||
| June 2019 | Technology and its Discontents | Bad Blood | John Carreyou | 38 |
| Automating Inequality | Virginia Eubanks | 25 | ||
| Zucked | Roger McNamee | 17 | ||
| Coders | Clive Thompson | 16 | ||
| Behemoth | Joshua B. Freeman | 15 | ||
| Brotopia | Emily Chang | 8 | ||
| July 2019 | Apollo Anniversary | Rocket Men | Robert Kurson | 59 |
| Rise of the Rocket Girls | Nathalia Holt | 43 | ||
| The Moon | Oliver Morton | 27 | ||
| Spaceman | Michael Massimino | 17 | ||
| The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | 11 | ||
| Astounding | Alec Nevala-Lee | 4 | ||
| August 2019 | Best of 2019 so far | Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keefe | 77 |
| Sea People | Christina Thompson | 63 | ||
| Furious Hours | Casey Cep | 39 | ||
| Underland | Robert McFarlane | 24 | ||
| Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely | Andrew S. Curran | 23 | ||
| Under Red Skies | Karoline Kan | 22 | ||
| Survival Math | Mitchell Jackson | 6 |
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{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)
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{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)
| Month | Category | Title | Author | Votes |
| Sep 2017 | Sports and Competition | Barbarian Days | William Finnegan | 39 |
| The Boys in the Boat | Daniel James Brown | 31 | ||
| String Theory | David Foster Wallace | 27 | ||
| The Cylist Who Went Out in the Cold | Tim Moore | 20 | ||
| Deep Thinking | Gary Kasparov | 14 | ||
| Friday Night Lights | H. G. Bissinger | 11 | ||
| Sting Like a Bee | Leigh Montville | 4 | ||
| Oct 2017 | Gender and Society | Testosterone Rex | Cordelia Fine | 53 |
| The Argonauts | Maggie Nelson | 51 | ||
| In the Darkroom | Susan Faludi | 36 | ||
| Daring to Drive | Manal Al-Sharif | 23 | ||
| The Unwomanly Face of War | Svetlana Alexievich | 19 | ||
| Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud | Anne Helen Peterson | 9 | ||
| Hunger | Roxane Gay | 4 | ||
| Nov 2017 | Literature and Storytelling | Everybody Behaves Badly | Lesley M. M. Blume | 56 |
| Reading with Patrick | Michele Kuo | 46 | ||
| The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve | Stephen Greenblatt | 43 | ||
| Wild Things | Bruce Handy | 41 | ||
| The Storytelling Animal | Jonathan Gottschall | 41 | ||
| An Odyssey | Daniel Mendelsohn | 36 | ||
| Where the Past Begins | Amy Tan | 13 | ||
| The Empire of Necessity | Greg Grandin | 9 | ||
| Jan 2018 | Door Stops | Leonardo da Vinci | Walter Isaacson | 92 |
| Grant | Ron Chernow | 65 | ||
| Behave | Robert M. Sapolsky | 51 | ||
| The Evangelicals | Frances Fitzgerald | 28 | ||
| The Better Angels of Our Nature | Stephen Pinker | 21 | ||
| Stamped from the Beginning | Ibram X Kendi | 19 | ||
| Feb 2018 | Best of 2017 | Ghosts of the Tsunami | Richard Lloyd Parry | 56 |
| The Woman who Smashed Codes | Jason Fagone | 54 | ||
| Ants Among Elephants | Sujatha Gilda | 41 | ||
| Priestdaddy | Patricia Lockwood | 38 | ||
| American Fire | Monica Hesse | 37 | ||
| The Blood of Emmet Till | Timothy B. Tyson | 32 | ||
| The Butchering Art | Lindsey Fitzharris | 12 | ||
| Bunk | Kevin Young | 11 | ||
| March 2018 | The bigger picture on current events | Enlightenment Now | Stephen Pinker | 77 |
| Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick | 33 | ||
| The Line Becomes a River | Francisco Cantu | 32 | ||
| How Democracies Die | Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt | 23 | ||
| Janesville | Amy Goldstein | 13 | ||
| White Rage | Carol Anderson | 4 | ||
| April 2018 | Food and drink | The Food Explorer | Daniel Stone | 60 |
| Cork Dork | Bianca Bosker | 48 | ||
| The Milk Lady of Bangalore | Shoba Narayan | 37 | ||
| What She Ate | Laura Shapiro | 35 | ||
| Blood, Bones & Butter | Gabrielle Hamilton | 27 | ||
| The Cooking Gene | Michael W. Twitty | 14 | ||
| May 2018 | Religion | Educated | Tara Westover | 78 |
| The Evangelicals | Frances Fitzgerald | 44 | ||
| In the Days of Rain | Rebecca Stott | 37 | ||
| If the Oceans Were Ink | Carla Power | 37 | ||
| The Triumph of Christianity | Bart D. Ehrman | 31 | ||
| The Givenness of Things | Marilynne Robinson | 31 | ||
| The People and the Books | Adam Kirsch | 19 | ||
| Infidel | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | 14 | ||
| June 2018 | Los Angeles | The Mirage Factory | Gary Krist | 88 |
| High Noon | Glenn Frankel | 49 | ||
| Hitler in Los Angeles | Steven J. Ross | 47 | ||
| Always Running | Luis J. Rodriguez | 36 | ||
| Eternity Street | John Mack Faragher | 24 | ||
| Eve's Hollywood | Eve Babitz | 22 | ||
| The Grim Sleeper | Christine Pelisek | 4 | ||
| July 2018 | first half of 2018 | Calypso | David Sedaris | 79 |
| Barracoon | Zora Neale Hurston | 49 | ||
| Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber | 28 | ||
| Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | 23 | ||
| The Woman's Hour | Elaine Weiss | 20 | ||
| Patriot Number One | Lauren Hilgers | 18 | ||
| The Infernal Library | Daniel Kalder | 8 | ||
| Aug 2018 | Summer Vacation- members nominate | The Woman Who Smashed Codes | Jason Fagone | 55 |
| Something Wonderful | Todd S. Purdum | 40 | ||
| Code Girls | Liza Mundy | 38 | ||
| Choose Your Own Disaster | Dana Schwartz | 30 | ||
| Shrill | Lindy West | 26 | ||
| The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | 21 |
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