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 |
vote held in store
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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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