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! Date !! Book !! Host | ! Date !! Book !! Host | ||
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| Wednesday, July | | Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | ||
| | | [https://www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Performance/dp/161723012X The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance] | ||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
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| Tuesday, September 13, 2016 | |||
| [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385333498 The Sirens of Titan] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, August 2, 2016 | |||
| [https://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Made-China-Insiders-Production/dp/0470928077 Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | |||
| Three Worlds Collide [http://lesswrong.com/lw/y4/three_worlds_collide_08/ pdf] [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15744759-three-worlds-collide GoodReads] | |||
The Death of Ivan Ilyich [https://www.amazon.com/Death-Ilyich-Stories-Vintage-Classics-ebook/dp/B002VD6NJQ Amazon], there are [https://www.google.com/search?q=the+death+of+ivan+ilyich+pdf&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 free pdfs] for various translations online | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, May 24, 2016 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Words-What-Animals-Think/dp/0805098887 Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004J4WKUQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 Ready Player One] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, February 16, 2016 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Chernobyl-History-Nuclear-Disaster/dp/0312425848 Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, January 12, 2016 | |||
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age The Diamond Age] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Mistook-Wife/dp/1491514078 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, November 3, 2015 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B00EMXBDMA The Martian] | |||
| Lacra and Anton | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, October 29, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555 Thinking, Fast and Slow] | |||
| Cancelled - Manu was born! | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, September 17, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/The-Foreigner-Larry-Shue/dp/0822204185 The Foreigner] | |||
| Klara/Lacra | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Lean-In-Women-Work-Will/dp/0385349947 Lean In] | |||
| John | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Me-If-You-Can/dp/0767905385 Catch Me If You Can] | |||
| Lauren and Marc | |||
|- | |||
| Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/The-Poisoners-Handbook-Forensic-Medicine/dp/014311882X The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York] | |||
| Lauren and Marc | |||
|- | |||
| Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Atonement-Novel-Ian-McEwan/dp/038572179X Atonement: A Novel] | |||
| Lacra | |||
|- | |||
| Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352145 Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking] | |||
| Lacra | |||
|- | |||
| Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585 The Windup Girl] | |||
| Sandy | |||
|- | |||
| Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/B00AR2BCLW Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void] | |||
| Lacra | | Lacra | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Monday, August 6 | | Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 | ||
| [http://www.amazon.com/ | | [http://www.amazon.com/Before-Go-Sleep-S-Watson/dp/0062060554 Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel] | ||
| Lauren | | John | ||
|- | |||
| Monday, August 6, 2012 | |||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/B007QRI1UQ Imagine: How Creativity Works] | |||
| Lauren and Marc | |||
|- | |- | ||
| Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | |||
| None | |||
| Lacra | |||
|} | |} | ||
Runners up: | Runners up: | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Days-Anaesthesia-anaesthetics-changed/dp/0192805894 Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How anaesthetics changed the world] | |||
* [https://www.amazon.com/History-World-6-Glasses/dp/0802715524 A History of the World in 6 Glasses] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Hearing-Trumpet-Leonora-Carrington/dp/1878972197 The Hearing Trumpet] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Mother-Night-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/0385334141 Mother Night] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JFJHP2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 The Human Stain] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-West/dp/0679728759 Blood Meridian] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393329097/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0393329097 The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393329097/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0393329097 The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439189714/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1439189714 The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439189714/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1439189714 The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307264890/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307264890 The Name of the Rose] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307264890/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0307264890 The Name of the Rose] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/State-Wonder-Novel-Ann-Patchett/dp/006204981X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344314322&sr=1-1&keywords=state+of+wonder State of Wonder] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Sea-The-Ronson-Mysteries/dp/1594631379 Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Bossypants-ebook/dp/B0047Y0FGY Bossypants ] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Suns-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/159448385X A Thousand Splendid Suns] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062060627 The Song of Achilles] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420411X The Signal and the Noise] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Bead-Game-Magister-Novel/dp/0312278497 The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel ] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Performance/dp/1591845114 The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance] | |||
Other proposed books: | Other proposed books: | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Neverwhere-Neil-Gaiman/dp/0380789019 Neverwhere] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Ian-McEwan/dp/1400076196 Saturday] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AU7MJU/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 The Magicians] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00280LYIC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 The Lightning Thief] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OVLKMM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1 The Glass castle] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Going-Clear-Scientology-Hollywood-Prison/dp/0307745309 Going Clear] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-One-A-Novel/dp/0307887448 Ready Player One] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/0805095152 Being Mortal] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Business-Women-Work-Family/dp/0812994566 Unfinished Business] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Circle-Dave-Eggers/dp/0345807294 The Circle] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507256/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0375507256 Cloud Atlas: A Novel] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375507256/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0375507256 Cloud Atlas: A Novel] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312430000/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312430000 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312430000/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312430000 The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right] | ||
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* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143120530/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143120530 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143120530/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0143120530 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316925284/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316925284 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments] | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316925284/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316925284 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/East-of-Eden-ebook/dp/B001BC5HXG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344314439&sr=1-1&keywords=East+of+eden East of Eden] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Tomatoland-Industrial-Agriculture-Destroyed-Alluring/dp/1449423450/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344314469&sr=1-1&keywords=Tomatoland Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/1776-David-McCullough/dp/0743226720/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344314512&sr=1-1&keywords=1776 1776] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trembling-Novel-Amelie-Nothomb/dp/0312288573/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350270045&sr=1-4&keywords=fear+and+trembling Fear and Trembling: A Novel] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350270167&sr=1-1&keywords=devil+in+the+white+city The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Big-Short-Inside-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0393338827/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350270307&sr=1-1&keywords=the+big+short The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Casual-Vacancy-J-K-Rowling/dp/0316228532/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350270338&sr=1-1&keywords=the+casual+vacancy The Casual Vacancy] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143122231 Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Unbearable-Lightness-Being-Milan-Kundera/dp/0060932139 The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Prophet-Kahlil-Gibran/dp/1614270627 The Prophet] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420411X The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't ] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Girl-Novel-Gillian-Flynn/dp/030758836X Gone Girl] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Hall-Novel-Hilary-Mantel/dp/0312429983 Wolf Hall] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Void-Verba-Mundi-Georges-Perec/dp/1567922961 A Void (Verba Mundi) ] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Dan-Brown/dp/0385537859 Inferno] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/American-Bee-National-Spelling-Culture/dp/1594862141 American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Cryptonomicon-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0060512806 Cryptonomicon] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Calling-Robert-Galbraith/dp/0316206849/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374030370&sr=1-1&keywords=cuckoo%27s+calling Cuckoo's Calling] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/344245302X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374030542&sr=1-2&keywords=snow+crash Snow Crash] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Cooked-Natural-Transformation-Michael-Pollan/dp/1594204217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374031019&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+pollan Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Prince-Antoine-Saint-Exupery/dp/0547978847 The Little Prince] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Epigenetics-Revolution-Understanding-Inheritance/dp/0231161166 The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Edition/dp/0226458083 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Edition/dp/0226458083 The Mismeasure of Man] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/And-Mountains-Echoed-Khaled-Hosseini/dp/159463176X And the Mountains Echoed] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Three-Men-Boat-Jerome-K/dp/1420925628 Three Men in a Boat] | |||
Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: | Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: | ||
* | * [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451648537/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1451648537&linkCode=as2&tag=stackwiki-20 Steve Jobs] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0054U53WG/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0054U53WG In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives] |
Latest revision as of 07:03, 17 September 2016
Scheduled books:
Date | Book | Host |
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016 | The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 | The Sirens of Titan | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 | Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the China Production Game | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 | Three Worlds Collide pdf GoodReads
The Death of Ivan Ilyich Amazon, there are free pdfs for various translations online |
Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 | Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 | Ready Player One | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 | The Diamond Age | Lacra and Anton |
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 | The Martian | Lacra and Anton |
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 | Thinking, Fast and Slow | Cancelled - Manu was born! |
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 | The Foreigner | Klara/Lacra |
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | Lean In | John |
Tuesday, July 16, 2013 | Catch Me If You Can | Lauren and Marc |
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 | The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York | Lauren and Marc |
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 | Atonement: A Novel | Lacra |
Wednesday, Mar 6, 2013 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Lacra |
Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 | The Windup Girl | Sandy |
Sunday, Nov 18, 2012 | Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Lacra |
Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 | Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel | John |
Monday, August 6, 2012 | Imagine: How Creativity Works | Lauren and Marc |
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | None | Lacra |
Runners up:
- Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How anaesthetics changed the world
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses
- The Hearing Trumpet
- Mother Night
- The Human Stain
- Blood Meridian
- The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
- The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband
- The Name of the Rose
- State of Wonder
- Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
- Bossypants
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Song of Achilles
- The Signal and the Noise
- The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
Other proposed books:
- Neverwhere
- Saturday
- The Magicians
- The Lightning Thief
- The Glass castle
- Going Clear
- Ready Player One
- Being Mortal
- Unfinished Business
- The Circle
- Cloud Atlas: A Novel
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
- Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
- East of Eden
- Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
- 1776
- Fear and Trembling: A Novel
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
- The Casual Vacancy
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
- The Prophet
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
- Gone Girl
- Wolf Hall
- A Void (Verba Mundi)
- Inferno
- American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds
- Cryptonomicon
- Cuckoo's Calling
- Snow Crash
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
- The Little Prince
- The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- The Mismeasure of Man
- And the Mountains Echoed
- Three Men in a Boat
Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: