Book Club
Established 2011
Book Club
Established 2011
Imagined 2010, launched 2011.
For curious friends who enjoy sharing, learning, and engaging with ideas new and old.
2022
The Overstory
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
January 2022
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
April 2022
Host: Mark B
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
July 2022
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part IV, V, VI
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
October 2022
Host: John M
Runner-ups:
- The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
- Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk
- Life by Keith Richards
2021
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
January 2021
Host: Mark B
Runner-ups:
- Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig
- Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
- Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy by Jane Leavy
1776
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
April 2021
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- What Unites Us by Dan Rather
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- The Sports Gene by David Epstein
- How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
July 2021
Host: John M
Runner-ups:
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- Alone on the Wall by Alex Hunnold
- Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol 1) Part I, II, III
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
November 2021
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
- The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
- The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri
2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
February 2020
Host: John M
Runner-ups:
- The Road to Character by David Brooks
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
- Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder by James B. Stewart
- The Vagabonds by Jeff Guinn
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
April 2020
Host: Mark B
Runner-ups:
- The Liberation of Paris: How Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz Saved the City of Light by Jean Edward Smith
- The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum
- Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
June 2020
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
- The Evangelicals by Frances FitzGeraldBeing Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Boomtown by Sam Anderson
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
August 2020
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram Kendi
- The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
October 2020
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition) by Jon Lee Anderson
- Grant by Ron Chernow
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
November 2020
Host: John M
Runner-ups:
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow by Ronan Farrow
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude Steele
- Educated: A Memoir: A Memoir - Tara Westover by Tara Westover
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X By Les Payne And Tamara Payne
2019
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
March 2019
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- Valley Forge by Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
- As a Driven Leaf A Man Called Ove
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
April 2019
Host: John M
Runner-ups:
- American Overdose by Chris McGreal
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
- These Truths by Jill Lepore
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
June 2019
Host: Mark B
Runner-ups:
- American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation by Adam Morris
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
August 2019
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
- The Second Mountain by David Brooks
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
Permanent Record
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Permanent Record
December 2019
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- We Are the Nerds : The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
- Putin's World Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent
- The
December 2019
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- We Are the Nerds : The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
- She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
- Putin's World Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent
- The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection by Tamim Ansary
- Inside Out by Demi Moore
2018
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
January 2018
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
- The Great Halifax Explosion by John Bacon
- The Vanishing American Adult by Ben Sasse
- Surviving Berlin by Karl von der Heyden
White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
April 2018
Host: John M
Runner-ups:
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
- Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine by George M. Taber, Robert G. Mondavi
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
- Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
The Great American Novel
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
July 2018
Host: Mark B
Runner-ups:
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- God Save Texas by Lawrence Wright
- Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
September 2018
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bois Sauvage #2) by Jesmyn Ward
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Machado
- My Beloved World by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
December 2018
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
2017
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
February 2017
Host: Dave R
Lincoln in the Bardo
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Why?: Explaining the Holocaust
April 2017
Host: Mark B
Runner-ups:
- Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert A. Caro
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
- Alexander Hamilton by Jeffrey Toobin
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
July 2017
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
All the Light We Cannot See
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
October 2017
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
2016
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
January 2016
Host: Kevin H
Runner-ups:
- No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
June 2016
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert A. Caro
- Lincoln by David Herbert Donald
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
- Alexander Hamilton by Jeffrey Toobin
All the King's Men
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
All the King's Men
August 2016
Host: Steve P
Runner-ups:
- The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
2015
The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
January 2015
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War by James Risen
- Redeployment by Phil Klay
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
April 2015
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia by David E. Hoffman
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
June 2015
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Iron John by Robert Bly
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
All the Light We Cannot See
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
August 2015
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Americanah by Chimmanda Ngozi Adichie
- In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
2014
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
February 2014
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
June 2014
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
- The Infatuations by Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa
- A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
July 2014
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- The Divide by Matt Taibbi
- All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Coming into the Country by John McPhee
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
November 2014
Host: Kevin H
Runner-ups:
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
- Mason-Dixon by Thomas
- PynchonWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- J by Howard Jacobson
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald
2013
A Tale of Two Cities
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
February 2013
Host: Steve P
Runner-ups:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez
- Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
- The Big Sky by Guthrie
- Blood Meridian by McCarthy
- The Fountainhead
- Rand Beautiful Ruins by Walters
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
- Going after Cacciato by O’Brien Homage to Catalonia by Orwell
- The Greater Journey by McCollough
- Diary
February 2013
Host: Steve P
Runner-ups:
- One Hundred Years of Solitude Marquez
- Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
- The Big Sky by Guthrie
- Blood Meridian by McCarthy
- The Fountainhead
- Rand Beautiful Ruins by Walters
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
- Going after Cacciato by O’Brien Homage to Catalonia by Orwell
- The Greater Journey by McCollough
- Diary of a Young Girl by Frank
- In Cold Blood by Capote
- American Way of Death by Mitford
- Team of Rivals, Goodwin
- The Last Lion, Volume 3,Defender of the Realm 1940-1965, Manchester & Reid
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
June 2013
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- You Were Never in Chicago by Neil Steinberg
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Inventor and the Tycoon by Edward Ball
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Carter Beats the Devil
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
August 2013
Host: Kevin H
Runner-ups:
- Fortress Of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander
- Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
- Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
November 2013
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kirstof and Sheryl Wu Dunn
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
2012
Dracula
Evidence of Things Unseen
Absalom, Absalom!
February 2012
Host: Steve P
Runner-ups:
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- A Theory of Great Men by Dan Greenstone
- Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Absalom, Absalom!
Evidence of Things Unseen
Absalom, Absalom!
May 2012
Host: Dave R
Runner-ups:
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
- The Greater Journey by David McCullough
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- COD: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Evidence of Things Unseen
Evidence of Things Unseen
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
July 2012
Host: Kevin H
Runner-ups:
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- 50 Shades of Gray by E L James
- Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
September 2012
Host: John B
Runner-ups:
- All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
- American Wife: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
- National Federation of International Business v. Sibelius and Citizens United v. Federal Election CommissionProfiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
December 2012
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2011
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
January 2011
Host: Scott D
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
April 2011
Host: Dave R
The Grapes of Wrath
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The Wall and Other Stories
June 2011
Host: Steve P
The Wall and Other Stories
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The Wall and Other Stories
July 2011
Host: Kevin H
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
September 2011
Host: John B
Cleopatra: A Life
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense
December 2011
Host: Scott D
Runner-ups:
- The Arabs: A History by Eugene Rogan
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Self-reliance and other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Confidence Men by Ron Suskind
book club history
Imagined in 2010, launched in 2011.
For curious friends who enjoy sharing, learning, and engaging with ideas new and old.