Book club: Difference between revisions

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Scheduled books:

Date	Book	Host
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:

Other proposed books:

Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be:

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 Scheduled books:
 {| class="wikitable"
 ! Date !! Book !! Host
 |-
-| Wednesday, July 11
+| Tuesday, October 18, 2016
-| None
+| [https://www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Performance/dp/161723012X The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance]
+| Lacra and Anton
+|-
+| 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
 |-
-| Monday, August 6
+| Sunday, Oct 14, 2012
-| [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005MZN1HC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=stackwiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B005MZN1HC Imagine: How Creativity Works]
+| [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:
+* [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/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/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:
+* [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/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/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:
+* [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]