2012
Mar – The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean
Feb – The Sociopath next door: the ruthless versus the rest of us by Martha Stout.
Jan – The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
2011
Dec – no meeting
Nov – The Warriors Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
Oct – Choosing New Books
Sept – Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Aug – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
July – Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
June – Packing for Mars: The curious science of life in the void by Mary Roach
May – Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
April – Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
Mar – A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper by John Allen Paulos
Feb – Choosing New Books
Jan – The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin
2010
| Dec ’10 No meeting | ||||
| Nov ‘10 | Death from the Skies! These are the ways the World will end | Philip Plait | ||
| Sept ‘10 | Chose either “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness” by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein or “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions” by Dan Ariely |
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| Aug ‘10 | The Elegance of the Hedgehog | Muriel Barbery | ||
| July ‘10 | American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot | Craig Ferguson | ||
| June ‘10 | Choosing New Books/Potluck | Thanks, Susan & Dale! | ||
| May ‘10 | What’s on your reading list? | |||
| Apr ‘10 | Kindred | Octavia Butler | ||
| Mar ‘10 | Tepper Isn’t Going Out | Calvin Trillin | ||
| Feb ‘10 | Slaves in the Family | Edward Ball | ||
| Jan ‘10 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Michal Faber | ||
| Dec ‘09 | Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth | R. Buckminister Fuller | ||
| Nov ‘09 | Picking New Books | |||
| Oct’09 | Food Theme:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year Of Food Life, By Barbara KingsolverReal Food: What To Eat And Why, By Nina PlanckHow To Read A French Fry: And Other Stories Of Intriguing Kitchen Science, By Russ Parsons
How To Pick A Peach: The Search For Flavor From Farm To Table, By Russ Parsons |
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| Sept ’09 | The Big Sort: Why The Clustering Of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart | Bill Bishop | ||
| Aug ’09 | Assassination Vacation | Sarah Vowell | ||
| July ’09 | Conscience Of A Liberal | Paul Krugman | ||
| June ’09O | Musicophelia: Tales Of Music And The Brain | Oliver Sacks | ||
| May ’09 | Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art | Scott McCloud | ||
| Aprl ’09 | Picking New Books | |||
| Mar ’09 | The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World | A.J. Jacobs | ||
| Feb ’09 | Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| Jan ’09 | Faherenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | ||
| Dec ’08 | Open Discussion | |||
| Nov ’08 | Age Of Unreason | Susan Jacoby | ||
| Oct ’08 | Soon I Will Be Invincible | Austin Grossman | ||
| Sept ’08 | Picking new books | |||
| August ’08 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time | Michael Sherme | ||
| July ’08 | The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil | Philip Zimbardo | ||
| June | Salt: A World History | Mark Kurlansky | ||
| May ’08 | Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show | Geoffrey Nunberg | ||
| Apr ’08 | Stumbling on Happiness | Daniel Gilbert | ||
| Mar | Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar…: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes | Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein | ||
| Feb | New book discussion | |||
| Jan | “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Micheal Pollan and “Garlic & Sapphires: the secret life of a food critic in disguise” by Ruth Reichl | |||
| Dec ’07 | Many books but we watched a production of HOGFATHER by Terry Pratchet & had a potluck dinner. | |||
| Nov’ 07 | Series Books | Various | ||
| Oct ’07 | The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | ||
| Sept ’07 | Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner | ||
| Aug ’07 | True Women | Janice Woods Windle | ||
| Jul ’07 | Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect FuneralComplete w/Food! | Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe | ||
| May ’07 | Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Alison Bechdel | ||
| Apr 07 | Under the Banner of Heaven: A story of Violent Faith | John Krakaeur | ||
| Mar ’07 | Cell: A Novel | Stephen King | ||
| Feb ’07 | Driving Mr. Albert: A trip across America with Einstein’s Brain | Michael Paterniti | ||
| Nov ’06 | Don’t Eat This Book: Fast Food And The Supersizing Of America | Morgan Spurlock | ||
| Oct ’06 | Stiff: The Curious Life Of Human Cadavers By Mary Roach Or Spook: Science Tackles ;The Afterlife By Mary Roach Or When We Die: The Science, Culture And Rituals Of Death By Cedric Mims. | |||
| Sept ’06 | Under The Black Flag: The Romance And The Reality Of Life Among The Pirates | David Cordingly | ||
| Aug ’06 | Man In The High Castle | Philip K. Dick | ||
| July ’06 | Climbing Mount Improbable | Richard Dawkins | ||
| June ’06 | Pretty Birds | Scott Simon | ||
| May ’06 | Graphic Novel Month with: Watchmen By Alan Moore; Death: The Time Of Your Life By Neil Gaiman; And One Hundred Demons By Linda Barry. | |||
| Apr ’06 | A Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold | ||
| Mar ’06 | The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett | ||
| Feb ’06 | The Autobiography of Ben Franklin | Ben Franklin | ||
| Jan ’06 | Open Discussion | |||
| Dec ’05 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | ||
| Nov ’05 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwel | ||
| Oct ’05 | A Night in the Lonesome October | Roger Zelazny | ||
| Sept ’05 | The Time-Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | ||
| Aug ’05 | Collapse | Jared Diamond | ||
| July ’05 | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Harmon | ||
| June ’05 | Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman | Richard P. Feynman | ||
| May ’05 | The Dogs of Babel | Carolyn Parkhurst | ||
| Apr ’05 | Open Discussion | |||
| Mar ’05 | Galileo’s Daughter | Dava Sobel | ||
| Feb ’05 | To Say Nothing of the Dog | Connie Willis | ||
| Jan ’05 | The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee | Stewart Lee Allen | ||
| Dec ’04 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Helene Hanff | ||
| Nov ’04 | Holidays on Ice | David Sedaris | ||
| Oct ’04 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | ||
| Sept ’04 | Open Discussion | |||
| Aug ’04 | Bombay Ice | Leslie Forbes | ||
| July `04 | The Man in the Ice | Konrad Spindler | ||
| June ’04 | Lost in Translation | Nicole Mones | ||
| May ’04 | Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters | Matt Ridley | ||
| Apr ’04 | Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil | John Berendt | ||
| Mar ’04 | Nickel & Dimed: On (not) getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | ||
| Feb ’04 | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell | ||
| Jan ’04 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | ||
| Dec ’03 | Holes | Louis Sachar | ||
| Nov ’03 | The Dance of Intimacy | Harrier Lerner | ||
| Oct ’03 | Open Discussion | |||
| Sep ’03 | How the Mind Works | Steve Pinter | ||
| Aug ’03 | The Road to Wellness | T. Coraghessan Boyle | ||
| Jul ’03 | With Santa Anna in Texas | the Journal of Jose Enrique de la Pena | ||
| Jun ’03 | Darwin’s Radio | Greg Bear | ||
| May ’03 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences | John Allen Paulos | ||
| Apr ’03 | Smilla’s Sense of Snow | Peter Hoeg | ||
| Mar ’03 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | ||
| Feb ’03 | Middle Age: A Romance | Joyce Carol Oates | ||
| Jan ’03 | Botany of Desire: A plant’s eye view of the world | Michael Pollan | ||
| Dec ’02 | Open Discussion | |||
| Nov ’02 | Thank you for Smoking | Christopher Buckley | ||
| Oct ’02 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | ||
