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* [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] | ||
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* [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] | ||
Revision as of 13:26, 10 November 2015
Scheduled books:
| Date | Book | Host |
|---|---|---|
| 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:
- 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:
- 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: