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

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