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| [http://www.amazon.com/The-Foreigner-Larry-Shue/dp/0822204185 The Foreigner] | |||
| Lacra | |||
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| Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | | Tuesday, August 13, 2013 | ||
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/344245302X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374030542&sr=1-2&keywords=snow+crash Snow Crash] | * [http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Crash-Neal-Stephenson/dp/344245302X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374030542&sr=1-2&keywords=snow+crash Snow Crash] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Cooked-Natural-Transformation-Michael-Pollan/dp/1594204217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374031019&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+pollan Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation] | * [http://www.amazon.com/Cooked-Natural-Transformation-Michael-Pollan/dp/1594204217/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374031019&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+pollan Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Prince-Antoine-Saint-Exupery/dp/0547978847 The Little Prince] | |||
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 08:27, 16 August 2013
Scheduled books:
| Date | Book | Host |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 17, 2013 | The Foreigner | 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:
- 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
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 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
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
- 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
Other books that haven't been proposed, but one day might be: