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Reference Desk: Tuesday Night Book Group Selections

These books have been the topic of discussion at our Tuesday Night Book Group. For information about this month's meeting, please see our Monthly Series page. Choose from the list below to jump to selections from a particular year:



2010  January American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham
 February The Forever War Dexter Filkins
 March Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) Tom Vanderbilt
 April The Case for God Karen Armstrong
 May Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall
 June Strength in What Remains Tracy Kidder
 July Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe Gillian Tett
 August Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
 September Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite Frank Bruni   
 October
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability David Owen.

 
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2009  January The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin
 February Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Oliver Sacks
 March The Zookeepers Wife Diane Ackerman
 April The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu
 May Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America Donna Foote
 June The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Kate Summerscale
 July This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust
 August Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives Jim Sheeler
 September American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century Paula Uruburu
 October Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin
 November The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria
 December Nothing to Be Frightened Of Julian Barnes


2008  January The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story Richard Preston
 February Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcom Gladwell
 March Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy Anna Politkovskaya
 April Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Mary Roach
 May Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog John Grogan
 June Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank Lisa Margonelli
 July The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Barbara Bisantz Raymond
 August Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver
 September Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Training Your Brain for Peak Performance Daniel G. Amen
 October The World Without Us Alan Weisman
 November Here If You Need Me: A True Story Kate Braestrup
 December Sweet and Low: A Family Story Rich Cohen


2007  January Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky
 February Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley
 March An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore
 April Letter to a Christian Nation Sam Harris
 May The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan
 June The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures Anne Fadiman
 July Polio: An American Story David M. Oshinsky
 August Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees Caroline Moorehead
 September Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero David Maraniss
 October Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick
 November Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World David Bodanis
 December Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande