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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{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...
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Our August selection is Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe. Our discussion will ...
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On Tuesday July 30, we'll be discussing Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey...