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! Date !! Book !! Host | ! Date !! Book !! Host | ||
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| Wednesday, | | Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 | ||
| | | [http://www.amazon.com/Atonement-Novel-Ian-McEwan/dp/038572179X Atonement: A Novel] | ||
| Lacra | |||
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| 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 | | Lacra | ||
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| | | Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 | ||
| [http://www.amazon.com/ | | [http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585 The Windup Girl] | ||
| | | Sandy | ||
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| 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 | |||
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| Sunday, Oct 14 | | Sunday, Oct 14, 2012 | ||
| [http://www.amazon.com/Before-Go-Sleep-S-Watson/dp/0062060554 Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel] | | [http://www.amazon.com/Before-Go-Sleep-S-Watson/dp/0062060554 Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel] | ||
| John | | John | ||
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| | | Monday, August 6, 2012 | ||
| [http://www.amazon.com/ | | [http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/B007QRI1UQ Imagine: How Creativity Works] | ||
| Lauren | |||
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| Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | |||
| None | |||
| Lacra | | Lacra | ||
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Runners up: | Runners up: | ||
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* [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/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/Lost-Sea-The-Ronson-Mysteries/dp/1594631379 Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries] | * [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] | |||
Other proposed books: | Other proposed books: | ||
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Unbearable-Lightness-Being-Milan-Kundera/dp/0060932139 The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel] | * [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/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] | |||
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 16:55, 13 March 2013
Scheduled books:
Date | Book | Host |
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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 |
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | None | Lacra |
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
- Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
- Bossypants
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
Other proposed books:
- 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
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't
- Gone Girl
- Wolf Hall
Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: