What we’re about
We are one of the longest running book clubs in the city. We read nonfiction books and meet monthly at different members' houses. We love good discussions, good food and good books. Please contact us if you want to join and we can send you the location for the next Meetup!
Here's a list of the past books we've read.
184. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve - Stephen Greenblatt
183. Superforecasting - Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner
182. Brotopia - Emily Chang
181. I Was Told to Come Alone - Souad Mekhennet
180. The Infidel and the Professor - Dennis Rasmussen
179. The Wars of the Roses - Dan Jones
178. Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith
177. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty - Dan Ariely
176. Evicted - Matthew Desmond
175. Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
174. Enemy of the People - Kati Marton
173. Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve - Ben Blatt
172. A Hobbit, a Wardrobe and a Great War - Joseph Loconte
171. Better Living Through Criticism - A.O. Scott
170. The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
169. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 - James Shapiro
168. Consciousness and the Brain - Stanislas Dehaene
167. The Rice Room - Ben Fong-Torres
166. 1493 - Charles C. Mann
165. The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio - Hubert Wolf
164. The Federalist Papers - Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
163. The Deep State - Mike Lofgren
162. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? - Frans de Waal
161. Near a Thousand Tables - Felipe Fernández-Armesto
160. The Divide - Matt Taibbi
159. Red Notice - Bill Browder
158. Islam and the Future of Tolerance - Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz
157. World Order - Henry Kissinger & Strategic Vision - Zbigniew Brzezinski
156. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
155. Black Fire - Robert Graysmith
154. Faraway Nearby - Rebecca Solnit
153. We Learn Nothing - Tim Kreider
152. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn
151. Savage Beauty - Nancy Milford
150. Stuff Matters - Mark Miodownik
149. Lost in the Cosmos - Walker Percy
148. The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
147. Self-Made Man - Norah Vincent
146. God's Hotel - Victoria Sweet
145. The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance - Brett Scott
144. Why Does the World Exist? - Jim Holt
143. Bad Pharma - Ben Goldacre
142. Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
141. America's Unwritten Constitution - Akhil Reed Amar
140. In the Garden of Beasts - Erik Larson
139. Bonk - Mary Roach
138. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Taleb
137. Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 - Stella Dong
136. The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
135. The Folly of Fools - Robert Trivers
134. Killing Pablo - Mark Bowden
133. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo - John Henry Patterson
132. Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
131. The Drunken Botanist - Amy Stewart
130. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
129. Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace - Kate Summerscale
128. The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
127. Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
126. Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them - John T. Irwin
125. Taste What You're Missing - Barb Stuckey
124. Reckless Endangerment - Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
123. Homicide - David Simon
122. Biopunk - Marcus Wohlsen
121. Slow Death by Rubber Duck - Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie
120. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
119. A Peace to End All Peace - David Fromkin
118. The Filter Bubble - Eli Pariser
117. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes - Daniel Everett
116. The Pirates of Somalia - Jay Bahadur
115. The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes
114. Good Calories, Bad Calories - Gary Taubes
113. On Intelligence - Jeff Hawkins
112. Dead Aid - Dambisa Moyo
111. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick
110. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
109. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
108. Winner-Take-All Politics - Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker
107. Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory - Patrick Wilcken
106. The $12 Million Stuffed Shark - Don Thompson
105. California Crackup - Joe Matthews and Mark Paul
104. The Argument Culture - Deborah Tannen
103. American Studies - Louis Menand
102. King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
101. When the Rivers Run Dry - Fred Pearce
100. Coyotes - Ted Conover
99. A Mencken Chrestomathy - H.L. Mencken
98. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
97. Luxury Fever - Robert Frank
96. Devices and Desires - Andrea Tone
95. On The Wealth of Nations - P.J. O'Rourke
94. Bambi vs. Godzilla - David Mamet
93. The Long Tail - Chris Anderson
92. Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) - Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
91. The Storm - Mike Bryan
90. Nine Parts of Desire - Geraldine Brooks
89. Why We Love - Helen Fisher
88. The Siege of Mecca - Yaroslav Trofimov
87. Spice - Jack Turner
86. The End of Oil - Paul Roberts
85. The Adventure of English - Melvyn Bragg
84. The Way We Never Were - Stephanie Coontz
83. Rats - Robert Sullivan
82. Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam
81. Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
80. The Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
79. Opening Skinner's Box - Lauren Slater
78. The Places in Between - Rory Stuart
77. No Place to Hide - Robert O'Harrow
76. Harlem Renaissance - Nathan Irvin Huggins
75. There Are No Children Here - Alex Kotlowitz
74. In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India - Edward Luce
73. The End of Faith - Sam Harris
72. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
71. Collapse - Jared Diamond
70. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy - Pietra Rivoli
69. The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
68. The Secret of Scent - Luca Turin
67. Animals in Translation - Temple Grandin & Catherine Johnson
66. Emotions Revealed - Paul Ekman
65. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing - Ted Conover
64. Our Inner Ape - Frans de Waal
63. It Must've Been Something I Ate - Jeffrey Steingarten
62. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
61. Chances Are: Adventures in Probability - Michael & Ellen Kaplan
60. Before the Fallout - Diana Preston
59. 1491 - Charles Mann
58. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
57. How Soccer Explains the World - Franklin Foer
56. Medici Money - Tim Parks
55. Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
54. A General Theory of Love - Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon
53. The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
52. The Future of Freedom - Fareed Zakaria
51. The Art of Eating - M.F.K. Fisher
50. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
49. The Red Queen - Matt Ridley
48. Why Things Bite Back - Edward Tenner
47. Cook - Nicholas Thomas
46. Moral Politics - George Lakoff
45. The Middle Mind - Curtis White
44. Why Orwell Matters - Christopher Hitchens
43. Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
42. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
41. The Culture of Fear - Barry Glasner
40. Writings on an Ethical Life - Peter Singer
39. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
38. Hole in Our Soul - Martha Bayles
37. The Bible Unearthed - Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman
36. Looking for Spinoza - Antonio Damasio
35. Thus Spake Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
34. The Accidental Theorist - Paul Krugman
33. The Dancing Wu-Li Masters - Gary Zukav
32. Bias - Bernard Goldberg
31. The Art of Travel - Alain de Botton
30. The Power of Babel - John McWhorter
29. Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
28. Evil - Roy Baumeister
27. Complexity - Mitchell Waldrop
26. Confessions - Saint Augustine
25. The Moral Animal - Robert Wright
24. Why Religion Matters - Huston Smith
23. The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand
22. About Looking - John Berger
21. Eight Little Piggies - Stephen Jay Gould
20. Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis
19. The Mind's I - Douglas Hofstadter
18. The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
17. The Republic - Plato
16. The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin
15. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
14. Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
13. Consilience - Edward O. Wilson
12. Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
11. The Battle for God - Karen Armstrong
10. Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
9. Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek - Annie Dillard
8. How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker
7. Legal Alchemy - David Faigman
6. The Lexus and the Olive Tree - Thomas Friedman
5. The March of Folly - Barbara Tuchman
4. Sex, Art, and American Culture - Camille Paglia
3. The Gutenberg Elegies - Sven Birkerts
2. The Uses of Literature - Italo Calvino
1. The Presence of the Past - Rupert Sheldrake
