Month | Category | Title | Author | Votes |
Sep 2018 | Armchair travel and adventure | Lands of Lost Borders | Kate Harris | 39 |
Northland | Porter Fox | 38 | ||
The Promise of the Grand Canyon | Jon F. Ross | 32 | ||
Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick | 30 | ||
The Desert and the Sea | Michael Scott | 29 | ||
Don't Make Me Pull Over | Richard Ratay | 22 | ||
Arabia Felix | Thorkild Hansen | 16 | ||
Oct 2018 | 100 year anniversary of WWI armistice | Dead Wake | Erik Larson | 58 |
The Escape Artists | Neal Bascomb | 49 | ||
The Great War and Modern Memory | Paul Fussell | 38 | ||
Goodbye to All That | Robert Graves | 29 | ||
Paris 1919 | Margaret McMillan | 20 | ||
To End All Wars | Adam Hochschild | 19 | ||
Lenin | Victor Sebestyn | 17 | ||
Nov 2018 | True Crime | The Library Book | Susan Orlean | 81 |
The Spy and the Traitroq | Ben MacIntyre | 41 | ||
Blood & Ivy | Paul Collins | 34 | ||
I'll be Gone in the Dark | Michelle McNamara | 28 | ||
The Fact of a Body | Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich | 26 | ||
The Feather Thief | Wallace Johnson | 23 | ||
Beneath a Ruthless Sun | Gilbert King | 0 | ||
Jan 2019 | no category | Becoming | Michelle Obama | chosen by unrecorded in-store vote to replace Ninth Street Women. |
American Prison | Shane Bauer | |||
Fredrick Douglass | David W. Blight | |||
Heartland | Sarah Smarsh | |||
Small Fry | LIsa Brennan-Jobs | |||
Feb 2019 | Very short books | The Fifth Risk | Michael Lewis | 56 |
Hello World | Hannah Fry | 55 | ||
Never Caught | Erica Armstrong Dunbar | 46 | ||
Thick | Tressie McMillan | 31 | ||
One Person, No Vote | Carol Anderson | 15 | ||
All You Can Ever Know | Nicole Chung | 11 | ||
Heavy | Kiese Laymon | 0 | ||
Mar 2019 | Door Stops | Ninth Street Women | Mary Gabriel | 54 |
These Truths | Jill Lepore | 44 | ||
She Has her Mother's Laugh | Carl Zimmer | 39 | ||
The Browns of California | Miriam Pawel | 37 | ||
The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | 33 | ||
Presidents of War | Michael Beschloss | 19 | ||
Rise and Kill First | RonenBergen | 19 | ||
Frederick Douglass | David W. Blight | 18 | ||
Apr 2019 | LA Times Book Prize | The Browns of Caifornia | Miriam Pawel | 73 |
Empress | Ruby Lai | 72 | ||
The Line Becomes a River | Francisco Cantu | 56 | ||
The Hour of the Land | Terry Tempest Williams | 31 | ||
Dopesick | Beth Macy | 27 | ||
American Eden | Victoria Johnson | 22 | ||
Nine Pints | Rose George | 22 | ||
May 2019 | Music | Musicophilia | Oliver Sacks | 57 |
Something Wonderfiul | Todd S. Purdum | 44 | ||
Sounds Like Titanic | Jessica Chiccehito Hindman | 43 | ||
Kill 'Em and Leave | James McBride | 42 | ||
Burning Down the Haus | Tim Mohr | 34 | ||
Born to Run | Bruce Springsteen | 21 | ||
The Birth of Loud | Ian S. Port | 13 | ||
June 2019 | Technology and its Discontents | Bad Blood | John Carreyou | 38 |
Automating Inequality | Virginia Eubanks | 25 | ||
Zucked | Roger McNamee | 17 | ||
Coders | Clive Thompson | 16 | ||
Behemoth | Joshua B. Freeman | 15 | ||
Brotopia | Emily Chang | 8 | ||
July 2019 | Apollo Anniversary | Rocket Men | Robert Kurson | 59 |
Rise of the Rocket Girls | Nathalia Holt | 43 | ||
The Moon | Oliver Morton | 27 | ||
Spaceman | Michael Massimino | 17 | ||
The Right Stuff | Tom Wolfe | 11 | ||
Astounding | Alec Nevala-Lee | 4 | ||
August 2019 | Best of 2019 so far | Say Nothing | Patrick Radden Keefe | 77 |
Sea People | Christina Thompson | 63 | ||
Furious Hours | Casey Cep | 39 | ||
Underland | Robert McFarlane | 24 | ||
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely | Andrew S. Curran | 23 | ||
Under Red Skies | Karoline Kan | 22 | ||
Survival Math | Mitchell Jackson | 6 |
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