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 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)


MonthCategoryTitleAuthorVotes
Sep 2016NoneOn ImmunityEula Blissno vote
Oct 2016NoneHilbilly ElegyJ. D. Vance
vote held in store
Hero of The EmpireCandace Millard
Blood at the RootPatrick Phillips
At the Existentialist CafeSarah Bakewell
Chaos MonkeysAntonia Garcia Martinez
GhettosideJill Leovy
Nov 2016NoneThe Invention of RussiaArkady Ostrovsky51
Mad EnchantmentRoss King44
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals AreFrans de Waal37
If the Oceans Were InkCarla Power32
GhettosideJill Leovy25
PumpkinflowersMatti Friedman21
Jan 2017Door StopsVictoria the QueenJulia Baird57
The Secret WarMax Hastings36
S.P.Q.R.Mary Beard33
The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson33
The Earth is WeepingPeter Cozzens26
Lost EnlightenmentS. Frederick Starr17
Blood in the WaterHeather Ann Thompson8
Hitler: AscentVolker Ullrich0
Feb 2017Special event at Eso Won BooksBetween the World and MeTa-Nehisi Coates
Mar 2017Outside the Box Thinking and ThinkersThe Undoing ProjectMicahel Lewis63
Ray and JoanLisa Napoli52
But What if We're WrongChuck Klosterman36
Homo DeusYuval N. Harari30
WonderlandSteven Johnson22
The UnsettlersMark Sundeen7
Apr 2017Best of 2016 best-of lists and awardsThe ReturnHisham Matar51
Dark MoneyJane Mayer50
Existentialist CafeSarah Bakewell44
Rogue Heroes Ben Macintyre40
EvictedMatthew Desmond27
In the DarkroomSusan Faludi20
May 2017Earth DayThe Sixth ExtinctionElizabeth Kolbert58
The Nature FixFlorence Williams35
Where the Water GoesDavid Owen33
Other MindsPeter Godfrey-Smith30
Lab GirlHope Jahren29
The Hidden Life of TreesPeter Wohlleben20
June 2017Special author eventAnatomy of InnocenceLaura Caldwell (ed.), Leslie Klinger (ed.)
July 2017Best of year so farChurchill and OrwellThomas E. Ricks59
Move Fast and Break ThingsJohnathan Taplin45
Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann44
Coach Wooden and MeKareem Abdul-Jabar27
The Stranger in the WoodsMichael Finkel26
PriestdaddyPatricia Lockwood25
Unwanted AdvancesLaura Kipnis25
August 2017Summer vacation - members nominateEvictedMatthew Desmond47
Twitter and Tear GasZeynep Tufekci40
A Primate's MemoirRobert M. Sapolsky40
Barbarian DaysWilliam Finnegan39
Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann30
EnduranceAlfred Lansing26
You Don't Have to Say You Love MeSherman Alexie14

{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...