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 Two
Here's all of the books we voted on and selected in our second year (Sep. 2017 - Aug. 2018)
{pages} Non-Fiction Book Cluib: Year One
I'm piecing together our club's history from a very large google spreadsheet workbook. Here's all of the books we voted on and selected in our first year (Sep. 2016 - Aug. 2017)
Month | Category | Title | Author | Votes |
Sep 2016 | None | On Immunity | Eula Bliss | no vote |
Oct 2016 | None | Hilbilly Elegy | J. D. Vance |
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Hero of The Empire | Candace Millard | |||
Blood at the Root | Patrick Phillips | |||
At the Existentialist Cafe | Sarah Bakewell | |||
Chaos Monkeys | Antonia Garcia Martinez | |||
Ghettoside | Jill Leovy | |||
Nov 2016 | None | The Invention of Russia | Arkady Ostrovsky | 51 |
Mad Enchantment | Ross King | 44 | ||
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are | Frans de Waal | 37 | ||
If the Oceans Were Ink | Carla Power | 32 | ||
Ghettoside | Jill Leovy | 25 | ||
Pumpkinflowers | Matti Friedman | 21 | ||
Jan 2017 | Door Stops | Victoria the Queen | Julia Baird | 57 |
The Secret War | Max Hastings | 36 | ||
S.P.Q.R. | Mary Beard | 33 | ||
The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | 33 | ||
The Earth is Weeping | Peter Cozzens | 26 | ||
Lost Enlightenment | S. Frederick Starr | 17 | ||
Blood in the Water | Heather Ann Thompson | 8 | ||
Hitler: Ascent | Volker Ullrich | 0 | ||
Feb 2017 | Special event at Eso Won Books | Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
Mar 2017 | Outside the Box Thinking and Thinkers | The Undoing Project | Micahel Lewis | 63 |
Ray and Joan | Lisa Napoli | 52 | ||
But What if We're Wrong | Chuck Klosterman | 36 | ||
Homo Deus | Yuval N. Harari | 30 | ||
Wonderland | Steven Johnson | 22 | ||
The Unsettlers | Mark Sundeen | 7 | ||
Apr 2017 | Best of 2016 best-of lists and awards | The Return | Hisham Matar | 51 |
Dark Money | Jane Mayer | 50 | ||
Existentialist Cafe | Sarah Bakewell | 44 | ||
Rogue Heroes | Ben Macintyre | 40 | ||
Evicted | Matthew Desmond | 27 | ||
In the Darkroom | Susan Faludi | 20 | ||
May 2017 | Earth Day | The Sixth Extinction | Elizabeth Kolbert | 58 |
The Nature Fix | Florence Williams | 35 | ||
Where the Water Goes | David Owen | 33 | ||
Other Minds | Peter Godfrey-Smith | 30 | ||
Lab Girl | Hope Jahren | 29 | ||
The Hidden Life of Trees | Peter Wohlleben | 20 | ||
June 2017 | Special author event | Anatomy of Innocence | Laura Caldwell (ed.), Leslie Klinger (ed.) | |
July 2017 | Best of year so far | Churchill and Orwell | Thomas E. Ricks | 59 |
Move Fast and Break Things | Johnathan Taplin | 45 | ||
Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | 44 | ||
Coach Wooden and Me | Kareem Abdul-Jabar | 27 | ||
The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel | 26 | ||
Priestdaddy | Patricia Lockwood | 25 | ||
Unwanted Advances | Laura Kipnis | 25 | ||
August 2017 | Summer vacation - members nominate | Evicted | Matthew Desmond | 47 |
Twitter and Tear Gas | Zeynep Tufekci | 40 | ||
A Primate's Memoir | Robert M. Sapolsky | 40 | ||
Barbarian Days | William Finnegan | 39 | ||
Killers of the Flower Moon | David Grann | 30 | ||
Endurance | Alfred Lansing | 26 | ||
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me | Sherman Alexie | 14 |
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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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