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* [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/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/Catch-Me-You-Can-ebook/dp/B000FBFMHU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344314394&sr=1-1&keywords=catch+me+if+you+can Catch Me If You Can] | * [http://www.amazon.com/Catch-Me-You-Can-ebook/dp/B000FBFMHU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344314394&sr=1-1&keywords=catch+me+if+you+can Catch Me If You Can] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374275637/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350269910&sr=1-1&keywords=thinking+fast+and+slow Thinking, Fast and Slow] | |||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0307352145/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350269967&sr=1-1&keywords=quiet+the+power+of+introverts+in+a+world+that+can%27t+stop+talking Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking] | |||
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* [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/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/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/Poisoners-Handbook-Murder-Forensic-Medicine/dp/014311882X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350270377&sr=1-1&keywords=the+poisoner%27s+handbook The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York] | |||
Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: | Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: |
Revision as of 19:07, 14 October 2012
Scheduled books:
Runners up:- 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
- Catch Me If You Can
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
- 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
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
Date | Book | Host |
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Wednesday, July 11 | None | Lacra |
Monday, August 6 | Imagine: How Creativity Works | Lauren |
Sunday, Oct 14 | Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel | John |
Sunday, Nov 18 | Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void | Lacra |