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| [http://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/0393339912/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350269643&sr=8-1&keywords=packing+for+mars Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void] | | [http://www.amazon.com/Packing-Mars-Curious-Science-Life/dp/0393339912/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350269643&sr=8-1&keywords=packing+for+mars Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void] | ||
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| [http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585 The Windup Girl] | |||
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* [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/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] | * [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] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Sea-The-Ronson-Mysteries/dp/1594631379 Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries] | |||
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* [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/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] | * [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] | ||
* [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] | |||
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 12:51, 12 December 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
- Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
- 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
- Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
- The Prophet
| Date | Book | Host |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Sunday, Jan 13 | The Windup Girl | Sandy |