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Society Books

Books - by date added to the Society reading list

  1. Geronimo: His Own Story—The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior (1970)
    by Geronimo and S. M. Barrett
    read 3/1997

  2. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932)
    by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt
    read 5/1997

  3. Beat Not the Bones (1952)
    by Charlotte Jay
    read 6/1997

  4. Burmese Days (1934)
    by George Orwell
    read 7/1997

  5. A Civil Action (1995)
    by Jonathan Harr
    read 8/1997

  6. The Age of Grief (1987)
    by Jane Smiley
    read 9/1997

  7. Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
    by Heinrich Harrer
    read 10/1997

  8. Eve Reviv’d, or the Fair One Stark-Naked (1684)
    anonymous
    read 11/1997

  9. The Fugitive Eye (1953)
    by Charlotte Jay
    read 12/1997

  10. The Treasure Of the Sierra Madre (1935)
    by B. Traven
    read 1/1998

  11. The Wings of the Dove (1902)
    by Henry James
    read 2/1998

  12. Lost Horizon (1933)
    by James Hilton
    read 3/1998

  13. Stones from the River (1994)
    by Ursula Hegi
    read 4/1998

  14. Birdsong (1993)
    by Sebastian Faulks
    read 5/1998

  15. Shipping News (1993)
    by Annie Proulx
    read 6/1998

  16. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
    by Alfred Lansing
    read 7/1998

  17. The Illustrated Man (1951)
    by Ray Bradbury
    read 8/1998

  18. The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
    by John Millington Synge
    read 8/1998

  19. Into the Wild (1998)
    by Jon Krakauer
    read 10/1998

  20. Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany (1997)
    by Stephen E. Ambrose
    read 11/1998

  21. The Things They Carried (1990)
    by Tim O’Brien
    read 12/1998

  22. Poetry magazine (Dec. 1998 issue)
    various authors
    read 1/1999

  23. Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
    by William Faulkner
    read 2/1999

  24. Delta of Venus (1969)
    by Anaïs Nin
    read 3/1999

  25. The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma (1998)
    by Alex Kotlowitz
    read 4/1999

  26. White Noise (1984)
    by Don DeLillo
    read 5/1999

  27. Ship of Gold (1987)
    by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar
    read 6/1999

  28. Man Without a Gun (1999)
    by Giandomenico Picco
    read 7/1999

  29. Cities of the Plain (1998)
    by Cormac McCarthy
    read 8/1999

  30. The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998)
    by Malcolm MacPherson
    read 9/1999

  31. The God of Small Things (1997)
    by Arundhati Roy
    read 10/1999

  32. The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998)
    by Sebastian Barry
    read 11/1999

  33. Slaves in the Family (1998)
    by Edward Ball
    read 12/1999

  34. Barrel Fever (1994)
    by David Sedaris
    read 1/2000

  35. Red China Blues (1996)
    by Jan Wong
    read 2/2000

  36. Darkness at Noon (1941)
    by Arthur Koestler
    read 3/2000

  37. Master and Commander (1970)
    by Patrick O’Brian
    read 4/2000

  38. The Children of Henry VIII (1996)
    by Alison Weir
    read 5/2000

  39. The Loved One (1948)
    by Evelyn Waugh
    read 6/2000

  40. Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
    by Louis De Bernieres
    read 7/2000

  41. In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
    by Tim O’Brien
    read 8/2000

  42. Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973)
    by Richard Alexander Hough
    read 9/2000

  43. Tabloid Dreams (1996)
    by Robert Olen Butler
    read 10/2000

  44. Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (2000)
    by Lennard Bickel
    read 11/2000

  45. Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
    by David Sedaris
    read 12/2000

  46. The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)
    by Paul Hendrickson
    read 1/2001

  47. Disgrace (1999)
    by J. M. Coetzee
    read 2/2001

  48. Death in Summer (1998)
    by William Trevor
    read 3/2001

  49. The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    read 3/2001

  50. The Terrible Hours (1999)
    by Peter Maas
    read 6/2001

  51. A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)
    by David Liss
    read 6/2001

  52. Monster (1997)
    by John Gregory Dunne
    read 7/2001

  53. The Murder of Napoleon (1982)
    by David Hapgood
    read 8/2001

  54. Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000)
    by Stephen E. Ambrose
    read 9/2001

  55. The African Queen (1935)
    by C.S. Forester
    read 10/2001

  56. Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
    by Jonathan Lethem
    read 11/2001

  57. King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
    by R. Haggard
    read 12/2001

  58. The Big Sleep (1939)
    by Raymond Chandler
    read 1/2002

  59. Milosz’s ABC’s (2001)
    by Czeslaw Milosz
    read 2/2002

  60. The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2000)
    by Miles Harvey
    read 3/2002

  61. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
    by Michael Chabon
    read 4/2002

  62. Twilight of Empire (1989)
    by Allan W. Eckert
    read 5/2002

  63. A Bend in the River (1979)
    by V.S. Naipal
    read 6/2002

  64. Bury Me Standing (1995)
    by Isabel Fonseca
    read 7/2002

  65. Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995)
    by George W. Hilton
    read 8/2002

  66. Everything is Illuminated (2002)
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
    read 10/2002

  67. The Maltese Falcon (1929)
    by Dashiell Hammett
    read 11/2002

  68. Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999)
    by John MacLean
    read 11/2002

  69. My Antonia (1918)
    by Willa Cather
    read 12/2002

  70. The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000)
    by Stewart O’Nan
    read 1/2003

  71. The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
    by Jose Saramago
    read 2/2003

  72. The White Devil (1612)
    by John Webster
    read 3/2003

  73. Black Dogs (1992)
    by Ian McEwan
    read 4/2003

  74. Knowledge and Information Technology (2000)
    from Partisan Review
    read 5/2003

  75. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003)
    by Erik Larson
    read 6/2003

  76. Stormy Weather (1995)
    by Carl Hiaasen
    read 7/2003

  77. Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)
    by Daniel Stashower & Sherlock Holmes
    read 8/2003

  78. The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis (1999)
    by Harry Mark Petrakis
    read 9/2003

  79. Life of Pi (2001)
    by Yann Martel
    read 10/2003

  80. The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America’s Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds (2003)
    by Mike Stanton
    read 11/2003

  81. The Da Vinci Code (2003)
    by Dan Brown
    read 12/2003

  82. The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (2003)
    various authors
    read 1/2004

  83. Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003)
    by Toby Cecchini
    read 1/2004

  84. Damascus Gate (1998)
    by Robert Stone
    read 3/2004

  85. Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure (2001)
    by Don & Petie Kladstrup
    read 4/2004

  86. The Human Stain (2000)
    by Philip Roth
    read 5/2004

  87. The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History (2002)
    by David A. Vise
    read 6/2004

  88. The Great Atlantic Air Race (1977)
    by Percy Rowe
    read 7/2004

  89. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885)
    by Ulysses S. Grant
    read 8/2004

  90. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004)
    by Alfred F. Young
    read 8/2004

  91. Invisible Man (1947)
    by Ralph Ellison
    read 10/2004

  92. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003)
    by Henry Wiencek
    read 11/2004

  93. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
    by Robert Olen Butler
    read 12/2004

  94. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
    Anthony Bourdain
    read 1/2005

  95. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004)
    by Robert Kurson
    read 1/2005

  96. Water Music (1980)
    by T.C. Boyle
    read 2/2005

  97. Brighton Rock (1938)
    by Graham Greene
    read 4/2005

  98. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
    by Haruki Murakami
    read 5/2005

  99. The Secret Agent (1907)
    by Joseph Conrad
    read 5/2005

  100. The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
    by Audrey Niffenegger
    read 7/2005

  101. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
    by Hunter S. Thompson
    read 8/2005

  102. 1776 (2005)
    by David McCullough
    read 8/2005

  103. The Kite Runner (2003)
    Khaled Hosseini
    read 9/2005

  104. So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
    by William Maxwell
    read 10/2005

  105. Ordinary Wolves (2004)
    by Seth Kantner
    read 11/2005

  106. The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
    by Salman Rushdie
    read 12/2005

  107. Marie (1912)
    by H. Rider Haggard
    read 1/2006

  108. Collapse (2005)
    by Jared Diamond
    read 2/2006

  109. Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (1986)
    translated by Dennis Tedlock
    read 3/2006

  110. The Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998)
    by John Barry
    read 4/2006

  111. In Cold Blood (1965)
    by Truman Capote
    read 5/2006

  112. Pellucidar (1915)
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs
    read 6/2006

  113. The Crying of Lot 49 (1988)
    by Thomas Pynchon
    read 7/2006

  114. The Sheltering Sky (1949)
    by Paul Bowles
    read 8/2006

  115. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
    by David von Drehle
    read 9/2006

  116. American Pastoral (1997)
    by Phillip Roth
    read 10/2006

  117. The Yacoubian Building (2004)
    by Alaa Al Aswany
    read 11/2006

  118. Thunderstruck (2006)
    by Erik Larson
    read 12/2006

  119. House Made of Dawn (1969)
    by N. Scott Momaday
    read 1/2007

  120. The Children’s Blizzard (2004)
    by David Laskin
    read 2/2007

  121. Empire Falls (2001)
    by Richard Russo
    read 3/2007

  122. The Old Gringo (1985)
    by Carlos Fuentes
    read 4/2007

  123. Out (2003)
    by Natsuo Kirino
    read 5/2007

  124. Runner in the Sun (1954)
    by D’Arcy McNickle
    read 6/2007

  125. Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (2002)
    by Denise Gess and William Lutz
    read 6/2007

  126. Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
    by Kurt Vonnegut
    read 7/2007

  127. The Road (2006)
    by Cormac McCarthy
    read 8/2007

  128. The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)
    by Gary Shteyngart
    read 10/2007br>
  129. The Killer Inside Me (1952)
    by Jim Thompson
    read 11/2007

  130. Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (2005)
    by Laura M. MacDonald
    read 12/2007

  131. The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)
    by Michael Chabon
    read 1/2008

  132. Out Stealing Horses (2007)
    by Per Petterson
    read 2/2008

  133. The Chicago Way (2007)
    by Michael Harvey
    read 3/2008

  134. Frankenstein (1818)
    by Mary Shelley
    read 4/2008

  135. Assassination Vacation (2005)
    by Sarah Vowell
    read 5/2008

  136. Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001)
    by Tony Hawks
    read 6/2008

  137. Flashman in the Great Game (1975)
    by George MacDonald Fraser
    read 7/2008

  138. The Book Thief (2006)
    by Markus Zusak
    read 8/2008

  139. The Fabulous Clipjoint (1953)
    by Frederic Brown
    read 9/2008

  140. Painter in a Savage Land (2008)
    by Miles Harvey
    read 10/2008

  141. When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
    by Irvin D. Yalom
    read 11/2008

  142. The Secret Scripture (2008)
    by Sebastian Barry
    read 12/2008

  143. Shadow Country (2008)
    by Peter Matthiessen
    read 1/2009

  144. Legs (1975)
    by William Kennedy
    read 2/2009

  145. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003)
    by Stephen Puleo
    read 3/2009

  146. Charlie Wilson's War (2003)
    by George Crile
    read 4/2009

  147. The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (And How to Do Them) (2007)
    by Peter Sagal
    read 4/2009

  148. People of the Book (2008)
    by Geraldine Brooks
    read 6/2009

  149. Fort Dearborn (2007)
    by Jerry Crimmins & Gerald A. Danzer
    read 7/2009

  150. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000)
    by Nathaniel Philbrick
    read 8/2009

  151. The Plot Against America (2004)
    by Philip Roth
    read 9/2009

  152. The White Tiger (2008)
    by Aravind Adiga
    read 10/2009

  153. Who You Gotta Kill (2009)
    by Russell Fee
    read 11/2009

  154. The Known World (2003)
    by Edward P. Jones
    read 12/2009

  155. 47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004)
    by O. Henry Mace
    read 1/2010

  156. The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
    by Muriel Barbery
    read 2/2010

  157. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985)
    by Richard Holmes
    read 3/2010

  158. Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
    by Max Blumenthal
    read 4/2010

  159. August: Osage County (2008)
    by Tracy Letts
    read 5/2010

  160. Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007)
    by Karen Abbott
    read 6/2010

  161. The Dean’s December (1982)
    by Saul Bellow
    read 7/2010

  162. No Other Life (1993)
    by Brian Moore
    read 8/2010

  163. Dark Voyage (2004)
    by Alan Furst
    read 9/2010

  164. Suite Française (2007)
    by Irène Némirovsky
    read 10/2010

  165. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006)
    by Timothy Egan
    read 11/2010

  166. Every Man Dies Alone (1947)
    by Hans Fallada
    read 12/2010

  167. Cruising Paradise: Tales (1996)
    by Sam Shepard
    read 1/2011

  168. True Grit (1968)
    by Charles Portis
    read 2/2011

  169. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
    by Rebecca Skloot
    read 3/2011

  170. F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century (2007)
    by Mark Levine
    read 4/2011

  171. The Finkler Question (2010)
    by Howard Jacobson
    read 5/2011

  172. Who You Gotta Kill (2011)
    by Russell Ó Fiaich
    read 6/2011

  173. Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
    by Laura Hillenbrand
    read 7/2011

  174. Now You See Him (2009)
    by Eli Gottlieb
    read 8/2011

  175. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter (2011)
    by Mark Seal
    read 9/2011

  176. County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010)
    by David Ansell
    read 10/2011

  177. The Silver Swan (2008)
    by Benjamin Black
    read 11/2011

  178. Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (2011)
    by Mitchell Zuckoff
    read 12/2011

  179. Supreme Courtship (2008)
    by Christopher Buckley
    read 1/2012

  180. In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
    by Erik Larson
    read 2/2012

  181. Let the Great World Spin (2009)
    by Colum McCann
    read 3/2012

  182. The Sense of an Ending (2011)
    by Julian Barnes
    read 4/2012

  183. Peace (2008)
    by Richard Bausch
    read 5/2012

  184. I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
    by Derek Raymond
    read 6/2012

  185. The Devil's Highway (2005)
    by Luis Alberto Urrea
    read 7/2012

  186. The Art of Fielding: A Novel (2011)
    by Chad Harbach
    read 8/2012

  187. A Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (2004)
    by Craig Johnson
    read 9/2012

  188. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (2012)
    by Annie Jacobsen
    read 10/2012

  189. Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009)
    by Adam Cohen
    read 11/2012

  190. Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010)
    by Judy Pasternak
    read 12/2012

  191. Doc (2011)
    by Mary Doria Russell
    read 1/2013

  192. Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (2013)
    by David Roberts
    read 2/2013

  193. HHhH: A Novel (2012)
    by Laurent Binet
    read 3/2013

  194. Stardust: A Novel (2009)
    Joseph Kanon
    read 4/2013

  195. The Great Gatsby (1925)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    read 5/2013

  196. Cutting for Stone (2009)
    by Abraham Verghese
    read 6/2013

  197. Norwegian By Night (2013)
    by Derek B. Miller
    read 7/2013

  198. The Johnstown Flood (1968)
    by David McCullough
    read 8/2013

  199. The Likeness (2008)
    by Tana French
    read 9/2013

  200. Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison (2013)
    by Michael Daly
    read 10/2013

  201. Sabbath's Theater (1995)
    by Philip Roth
    read 11/2013

  202. Riders of the Purple Sage (2005)
    by Zane Grey
    read 12/2013

  203. The Martian Chronicles (1950)
    by Ray Bradbury
    read 1/2014

  204. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
    by Lawrence Wright
    read 2/2014

  205. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2009)
    by Robert Edsel
    read 3/2014

  206. Not Me (2005)
    by Michael Lavigne
    read 4/2014

  207. Tenth of December: Stories (2013)
    by George Saunders
    read 5/2014

  208. City of Scoundrels (2012)
    by Gary Krist
    read 6/2014

  209. Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009)
    by Jane Hamilton
    read 7/2014

  210. How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed (1976)
    by Hyman George Rickover
    read 8/2014

  211. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
    by Isabel Wilkerson
    read 9/2014

  212. The Guards (2001)
    by Ken Bruen
    read 10/2014

  213. The Cage (1983)
    by Kenzo Kitakata
    read 11/2014

  214. What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America (2012)
    by Joan Walsh
    read 12/2014

  215. Innocent Killer, The: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction & its Astonishing Aftermath (2014)
    by Michael Griesbach
    read 1/2015

  216. Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life (2006)
    by Ira Berkow
    read 2/2015

  217. The Martian (2011)
    by Andy Weir
    read 3/2015

  218. Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (2003)
    by Anthony P. Hatch
    read 4/2015

  219. Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (1997)
    by Ring Lardner and Jonathan Yardley
    read 5/2015

  220. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (2014)
    by Annie Jacobsen
    read 6/2015

  221. Lolita (1955)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
    read 7/2015

  222. 290: A Novel of the American Civil War (2015)
    by Don Wonnell
    read 8/2015

  223. One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
    by Bill Bryson
    read 9/2015

  224. Guilt (2012)
    by Ferdinand von Schirach
    read 10/2015

  225. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
    by Hampton Sides
    read 11/2015

  226. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (2013)
    by Daniel James Brown
    read 12/2015

  227. Tales of the Tikongs (1983)
    by Epeli Hau'fa
    read 1/2016

  228. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (2001)
    by Hampton Sides
    read 2/2016

  229. The Flame Alphabet (2012)
    by Ben Marcus
    read 3/2016

  230. Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (2012)
    by John Barylick
    read 4/2016

  231. The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America> (2001)
    by Gus Russo
    read 5/2016

  232. A Dangerous Remedy (2017)
    by Russell Fee
    read 6/2016

  233. Consequence: A Memoir (2016)
    by Eric Fair
    read 7/2016

  234. We All Fall Down (2011)
    by Michael Harvey
    read 8/2016

  235. Hostile Waters (1997)
    by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin & Alan White
    read 9/2016

  236. A Handful of Dust (1977)
    by Evelyn Waughn
    read 10/2016

  237. Old Heart (2015)
    by Peter Ferry
    read 11/2016

  238. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
    by Erik Larson
    read 12/2016

  239. The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
    by Jean Rhys
    read 1/2017

  240. The White Cascade: The Greatest Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (2007)
    by Gary Krist
    read 2/2017

  241. Fortress of Solitude (2003)
    by Jonathan Lethem
    read 3/2017

  242. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story (2017)
    by Douglas Preston
    read 4/2017

  243. Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
    by J.D. Vance
    read 5/2017

  244. Mister Wonderful: A Love Story (2011)
    by Daniel Clowes
    read 6/2017

  245. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017)
    by David Grann
    read 7/2017

  246. The Sympathizer (2015)
    by Viet Thanh Nguyen
    read 8/2017

  247. Razor Girl (2016)
    by Carl Hiaasen
    read 9/2017

  248. The Circuit: True Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
    by Francisco Jimenez
    read 10/2017

  249. Tinkers (2008)
    by Paul Harding
    read 11/2017

  250. The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives (2001)
    by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.
    read 12/2017

  251. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2016)
    by Trevor Noah
    read 1/2018

  252. The Big Book of the Continental Op (2017)
    by Dashiell Hammett
    read 2/2018

  253. Hannibal's Niece: A Tale of Love, Murder and Deceit in Ancient Rome (2017)
    by Anthony Licata
    read 3/2018

  254. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World< (1870)
    by Jules Verne
    read 4/2018

  255. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1988)
    by John Ehle
    read 5/2018

  256. The Light Between Oceans (2012)
    by ML Stedman
    read 6/2018

  257. Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014)
    by Michael Koryta
    read 7/2018

  258. The Three Musketeers (1844)
    by Alexandre Dumas
    read 8/2018

  259. Another Part of the Forest (1946)
    by Lillian Hellman
    read 9/2018

  260. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy(2016)
    by Heather Ann Thompson
    read 10/2018

  261. News of the World (2016)
    by Paulette Jiles
    read 11/2018

  262. The Last Road Trip (2018)
    by James Elsener
    read 12/2018

  263. The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2004)
    by Scott Zesch
    read 1/2019

  264. The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel (2018)
    by Jeffrey Lewis
    read 2/2019

  265. Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (2019)
    by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic
    read 3/2019

  266. All the Light We Cannot See (2017)
    by Anthony Doerr
    read 4/2019

  267. Washington Black (2018)
    by Esi Edugyan
    read 5/2019

  268. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019)
    by Patrick Radden Keefe
    read 6/2019

  269. Three Men in a Boat (2018)
    by Jerome K. Jerome
    read 7/2019

  270. Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds - Survival in the Andes (2005)
    by Piers Paul Read
    read 8/2019

  271. The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016)
    by Ethan Michaeli
    read 9/2019

  272. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006)
    by Cesar Aira
    read 10/2019

  273. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (2019)
    by Christopher Wylie
    read 11/2019

  274. My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
    by Oyinkan Braithwaite
    read 12/2019

  275. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006)
    by Jason Roberts
    read 1/2020

  276. The Hamilton Affair (2016)
    by Elizabeth Cobbs
    read 2/2020

  277. Joyland (2013)
    by Stephen King
    read 3/2020

  278. The Third Policeman (1967)
    by Fann O'Brien
    read 4/2020

  279. Disappearing Earth (2019)
    by Julia Phillips
    read 5/2020

  280. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
    by Steven Johnson
    read 6/2020

  281. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
    by Erik Larson
    read 7/2020

  282. A Rising Man (2016)
    by Abir Mukherjee
    read 8/2020

  283. Ray (1980)
    by Hannah Barry
    read 9/2020

  284. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch (2020)
    by Harvey Miles
    read 10/2020

  285. American Dirt (2020)
    by Jeanine Cummins
    read 11/2020

  286. The Man With the Golden Arm (1949)
    by Nelson Algren
    read 12/2020

  287. Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (2020)
    by Talia Lavin
    read 1/2021

  288. The Searchers (1954)
    by Alan LeMay
    read 2/2021

  289. Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1969)
    by Wallace Stegner
    read 3/2021

  290. Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre (2019)
    by Randy Krehbiel
    read 4/2021

  291. Herzog (1964)
    by Saul Bellow
    read 5/2021

  292. A Dangerous Season: A Sheriff Matt Callahan Mystery (2017)
    by Russell Fee
    read 6/2021

  293. The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be (2019)
    by Thomas Lynch
    read 7/2021
  294. The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
    by Lawrence Block
    read 8/2021

  295. Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (2021)
    by Brian Castner
    read 9/2021

  296. The Assistant (1957)
    by Bernard Malamud
    read 10/2021

  297. Reflections of Valour (2021)
    by James Elsener
    read 11/2021

  298. The Ghost of Cleopatra:  Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece (2019)
    by John Rice and Gail Tanzer
    read 12/2021

  299. The Laughing Monsters (2014)
    by Denis Johnson
    read 1/2022

  300. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2018)
    by Ben Macintyre
    read 2/2022

  301. Wise Blood (1952)
    by Flannery O'Connor
    read 3/2022

  302. The Daughter of Time (1951)
    by Josephine Tey
    read 4/2022

  303. Cinnamon Skin (1982)
    by John G. MacDonald
    read 5/2022

  304. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (2018)
    by James B. Comey
    read 6/2022

  305. The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and his City (2010)
    by Stephen Dando-Collins
    read 7/2022

  306. The Promise (2021)
    by Damon Galgut
    read 8/2022

  307. Silverview (2021)
    by John Le Carré
    read 9/2022

  308. Fat City (1969)
    by Leonard Gardner
    read 10/2022

  309. The Gadfly (1897)
    by Ethel Lilian Voynich
    read 11/2022

  310. The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    by Ernest Hemingway
    read 12/2022

  311. The Red Fox (1982)
    by Anthony Hyde
    read 1/2023

  312. Liberation Day: Stories (2022)
    by George Saunders
    read 2/2023

  313. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)
    by Shirley Jackson
    read 3/2023

  314. The Trial (1926)
    by Franz Kafka
    read 4/2023

  315. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinkley Firestorm of 1894 (2006)
    by Daniel James Brown
    read 5/2023

  316. Lucky Medicine: A Memoir of Success beyond Segregation (2023)
    by Lester W. Thompson
    read 6/2023

  317. Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age (2023)
    by Fred M. Kray
    read 7/2023

  318. Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
    by Kurt Vonnegut
    read 8/2023

  319. Strangers on a Train (1950)
    by Patricia Highsmith
    read 9/2023

  320. Chicago’s Great Fire (2020)
    by Carl S. Smith
    read 10/2023

  321. Planes (2022)
    by Peter C. Baker
    read 11/2023

  322. Small Things Like These (2020)
    by Claire Keegan
    read 12/2023

  323. The Secret Hours (2023)
    by Mick Herron
    read 1/2024

  324. Anatomy of a Murder (1958)
    by Robert Traver
    read 2/2024

  325. Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)
    by Erik Larson
    read 3/2024

  326. The Boy Detective Fails (2006)
    by Joe Meno
    read 5/2024

  327. Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide (1995)
    by Robert Michael Pyle
    read 6/2024

  328. The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
    by John Steinbeck
    read 7/2024

  329. James (2024)
    by Percival Everett
    read 8/2024

  330. San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires (2005)
    by Dennis Smith
    read 9/2024

  331. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (2009)
    by Neil White
    read 11/2024

  332. Two Years Before the Mast (1840)
    by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
    read 11/2024

  333. Orbital: A Novel (2023)
    by Samantha Harvey
    read 12/2024

  334. Treasure Island (1883)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
    read 12/2024

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