August Selection Longlist - Best of 2019 so far

Sometime around Thursday or Friday (July 11-12), I'll be issuing our August ballot. Here are the titles I'm considering. Use the comments if there is a listed book you particularly like or an unlisted book you would like to add. The first four titles (marked with asterisk) will almost certainly be on the ballot.

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*Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
*Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe *Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane
*Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
Working by Robert A. Caro
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution by Peter Hessler
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

July Selection - Rocket Men by Robert Kurson

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 to the Moon by Robert Kurson. Copies are available for sale at {pages}. Discussion starts at 7 PM, but I'll be there at 6:30 with some surprises including Tang cocktails. Feel free to start discussing the book below, but if you post spoilers before July 30, please indicate in your post. I'm hoping this mechanism will be especially useful for those who can't make it to club. Also, if you discover interesting supplementary material on the web or relevant local events, feel free to post here.

WELCOME

Welcome to the {pages} non-fiction book club blog. While this blog is open to the public for viewing and commenting, its main purpose is to facilitate communication among members of the book club, thereby reducing emails. Our club meets monthly except December on the fourth or fifth Tuesday of the month. We are open to the public. For the latest information on all of the {pages} book clubs check out the {pages} website. This will be an evolving enterprise, but for now I plan to have monthly threads about what we're reading, discussion of our book selection, and a voting thread where we will make our selection. Feedback is welcome.