Book club

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:

• 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:

• Steve Jobs
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives