Society Books
Books - by date added to the Society reading list
- Geronimo: His Own Story—The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior (1970)
by Geronimo and S. M. Barrett
read 3/1997
- 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
- Beat Not the Bones (1952)
by Charlotte Jay
read 6/1997
- Burmese Days (1934)
by George Orwell
read 7/1997
- A Civil Action (1995)
by Jonathan Harr
read 8/1997
- The Age of Grief (1987)
by Jane Smiley
read 9/1997
- Seven Years in Tibet (1953)
by Heinrich Harrer
read 10/1997
- Eve Reviv’d, or the Fair One Stark-Naked (1684)
anonymous
read 11/1997
- The Fugitive Eye (1953)
by Charlotte Jay
read 12/1997
- The Treasure Of the Sierra Madre (1935)
by B. Traven
read 1/1998
- The Wings of the Dove (1902)
by Henry James
read 2/1998
- Lost Horizon (1933)
by James Hilton
read 3/1998
- Stones from the River (1994)
by Ursula Hegi
read 4/1998
- Birdsong (1993)
by Sebastian Faulks
read 5/1998
- Shipping News (1993)
by Annie Proulx
read 6/1998
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959)
by Alfred Lansing
read 7/1998
- The Illustrated Man (1951)
by Ray Bradbury
read 8/1998
- The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
by John Millington Synge
read 8/1998
- Into the Wild (1998)
by Jon Krakauer
read 10/1998
- 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
- The Things They Carried (1990)
by Tim O’Brien
read 12/1998
- Poetry magazine (Dec. 1998 issue)
various authors
read 1/1999
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
by William Faulkner
read 2/1999
- Delta of Venus (1969)
by Anaïs Nin
read 3/1999
- The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma (1998)
by Alex Kotlowitz
read 4/1999
- White Noise (1984)
by Don DeLillo
read 5/1999
- Ship of Gold (1987)
by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar
read 6/1999
- Man Without a Gun (1999)
by Giandomenico Picco
read 7/1999
- Cities of the Plain (1998)
by Cormac McCarthy
read 8/1999
- The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998)
by Malcolm MacPherson
read 9/1999
- The God of Small Things (1997)
by Arundhati Roy
read 10/1999
- The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998)
by Sebastian Barry
read 11/1999
- Slaves in the Family (1998)
by Edward Ball
read 12/1999
- Barrel Fever (1994)
by David Sedaris
read 1/2000
- Red China Blues (1996)
by Jan Wong
read 2/2000
- Darkness at Noon (1941)
by Arthur Koestler
read 3/2000
- Master and Commander (1970)
by Patrick O’Brian
read 4/2000
- The Children of Henry VIII (1996)
by Alison Weir
read 5/2000
- The Loved One (1948)
by Evelyn Waugh
read 6/2000
- Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
by Louis De Bernieres
read 7/2000
- In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
by Tim O’Brien
read 8/2000
- Captain Bligh and Mister Christian: The Men and the Mutiny (1973)
by Richard Alexander Hough
read 9/2000
- Tabloid Dreams (1996)
by Robert Olen Butler
read 10/2000
- Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written (2000)
by Lennard Bickel
read 11/2000
- Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
by David Sedaris
read 12/2000
- The Living & the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996)
by Paul Hendrickson
read 1/2001
- Disgrace (1999)
by J. M. Coetzee
read 2/2001
- Death in Summer (1998)
by William Trevor
read 3/2001
- The Ox-Bow Incident (1940)
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
read 3/2001
- The Terrible Hours (1999)
by Peter Maas
read 6/2001
- A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)
by David Liss
read 6/2001
- Monster (1997)
by John Gregory Dunne
read 7/2001
- The Murder of Napoleon (1982)
by David Hapgood
read 8/2001
- Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000)
by Stephen E. Ambrose
read 9/2001
- The African Queen (1935)
by C.S. Forester
read 10/2001
- Motherless Brooklyn (1999)
by Jonathan Lethem
read 11/2001
- King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
by R. Haggard
read 12/2001
- The Big Sleep (1939)
by Raymond Chandler
read 1/2002
- Milosz’s ABC’s (2001)
by Czeslaw Milosz
read 2/2002
- The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2000)
by Miles Harvey
read 3/2002
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
by Michael Chabon
read 4/2002
- Twilight of Empire (1989)
by Allan W. Eckert
read 5/2002
- A Bend in the River (1979)
by V.S. Naipal
read 6/2002
- Bury Me Standing (1995)
by Isabel Fonseca
read 7/2002
- Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995)
by George W. Hilton
read 8/2002
- Everything is Illuminated (2002)
by Jonathan Safran Foer
read 10/2002
- The Maltese Falcon (1929)
by Dashiell Hammett
read 11/2002
- Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire (1999)
by John MacLean
read 11/2002
- My Antonia (1918)
by Willa Cather
read 12/2002
- The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000)
by Stewart O’Nan
read 1/2003
- The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991)
by Jose Saramago
read 2/2003
- The White Devil (1612)
by John Webster
read 3/2003
- Black Dogs (1992)
by Ian McEwan
read 4/2003
- Knowledge and Information Technology (2000)
from Partisan Review
read 5/2003
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003)
by Erik Larson
read 6/2003
- Stormy Weather (1995)
by Carl Hiaasen
read 7/2003
- Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)
by Daniel Stashower & Sherlock Holmes
read 8/2003
- The Odyssey of Kostas Volakis (1999)
by Harry Mark Petrakis
read 9/2003
- Life of Pi (2001)
by Yann Martel
read 10/2003
- 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
- The Da Vinci Code (2003)
by Dan Brown
read 12/2003
- The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003 (2003)
various authors
read 1/2004
- Cosmopolitan: A Bartender’s Life (2003)
by Toby Cecchini
read 1/2004
- Damascus Gate (1998)
by Robert Stone
read 3/2004
- Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure (2001)
by Don & Petie Kladstrup
read 4/2004
- The Human Stain (2000)
by Philip Roth
read 5/2004
- 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
- The Great Atlantic Air Race (1977)
by Percy Rowe
read 7/2004
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (1885)
by Ulysses S. Grant
read 8/2004
- Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004)
by Alfred F. Young
read 8/2004
- Invisible Man (1947)
by Ralph Ellison
read 10/2004
- An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (2003)
by Henry Wiencek
read 11/2004
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1992)
by Robert Olen Butler
read 12/2004
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
Anthony Bourdain
read 1/2005
- 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
- Water Music (1980)
by T.C. Boyle
read 2/2005
- Brighton Rock (1938)
by Graham Greene
read 4/2005
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997)
by Haruki Murakami
read 5/2005
- The Secret Agent (1907)
by Joseph Conrad
read 5/2005
- The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
by Audrey Niffenegger
read 7/2005
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971)
by Hunter S. Thompson
read 8/2005
- 1776 (2005)
by David McCullough
read 8/2005
- The Kite Runner (2003)
Khaled Hosseini
read 9/2005
- So Long, See You Tomorrow (1980)
by William Maxwell
read 10/2005
- Ordinary Wolves (2004)
by Seth Kantner
read 11/2005
- The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
by Salman Rushdie
read 12/2005
- Marie (1912)
by H. Rider Haggard
read 1/2006
- Collapse (2005)
by Jared Diamond
read 2/2006
- Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life (1986)
translated by Dennis Tedlock
read 3/2006
- The Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998)
by John Barry
read 4/2006
- In Cold Blood (1965)
by Truman Capote
read 5/2006
- Pellucidar (1915)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
read 6/2006
- The Crying of Lot 49 (1988)
by Thomas Pynchon
read 7/2006
- The Sheltering Sky (1949)
by Paul Bowles
read 8/2006
- Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
by David von Drehle
read 9/2006
- American Pastoral (1997)
by Phillip Roth
read 10/2006
- The Yacoubian Building (2004)
by Alaa Al Aswany
read 11/2006
- Thunderstruck (2006)
by Erik Larson
read 12/2006
- House Made of Dawn (1969)
by N. Scott Momaday
read 1/2007
- The Children’s Blizzard (2004)
by David Laskin
read 2/2007
- Empire Falls (2001)
by Richard Russo
read 3/2007
- The Old Gringo (1985)
by Carlos Fuentes
read 4/2007
- Out (2003)
by Natsuo Kirino
read 5/2007
- Runner in the Sun (1954)
by D’Arcy McNickle
read 6/2007
- Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (2002)
by Denise Gess and William Lutz
read 6/2007
- Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
by Kurt Vonnegut
read 7/2007
- The Road (2006)
by Cormac McCarthy
read 8/2007
- The Russian Debutante’s Handbook (2002)
by Gary Shteyngart
read 10/2007br>
- The Killer Inside Me (1952)
by Jim Thompson
read 11/2007
- Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (2005)
by Laura M. MacDonald
read 12/2007
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union (2007)
by Michael Chabon
read 1/2008
- Out Stealing Horses (2007)
by Per Petterson
read 2/2008
- The Chicago Way (2007)
by Michael Harvey
read 3/2008
- Frankenstein (1818)
by Mary Shelley
read 4/2008
- Assassination Vacation (2005)
by Sarah Vowell
read 5/2008
- Playing the Moldovans at Tennis (2001)
by Tony Hawks
read 6/2008
- Flashman in the Great Game (1975)
by George MacDonald Fraser
read 7/2008
- The Book Thief (2006)
by Markus Zusak
read 8/2008
- The Fabulous Clipjoint (1953)
by Frederic Brown
read 9/2008
- Painter in a Savage Land (2008)
by Miles Harvey
read 10/2008
- When Nietzsche Wept (1992)
by Irvin D. Yalom
read 11/2008
- The Secret Scripture (2008)
by Sebastian Barry
read 12/2008
- Shadow Country (2008)
by Peter Matthiessen
read 1/2009
- Legs (1975)
by William Kennedy
read 2/2009
- Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003)
by Stephen Puleo
read 3/2009
- Charlie Wilson's War (2003)
by George Crile
read 4/2009
- The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (And How to Do Them) (2007)
by Peter Sagal
read 4/2009
- People of the Book (2008)
by Geraldine Brooks
read 6/2009
- Fort Dearborn (2007)
by Jerry Crimmins & Gerald A. Danzer
read 7/2009
- In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000)
by Nathaniel Philbrick
read 8/2009
- The Plot Against America (2004)
by Philip Roth
read 9/2009
- The White Tiger (2008)
by Aravind Adiga
read 10/2009
- Who You Gotta Kill (2009)
by Russell Fee
read 11/2009
- The Known World (2003)
by Edward P. Jones
read 12/2009
- 47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004)
by O. Henry Mace
read 1/2010
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006)
by Muriel Barbery
read 2/2010
- Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (1985)
by Richard Holmes
read 3/2010
- Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
by Max Blumenthal
read 4/2010
- August: Osage County (2008)
by Tracy Letts
read 5/2010
- Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007)
by Karen Abbott
read 6/2010
- The Dean’s December (1982)
by Saul Bellow
read 7/2010
- No Other Life (1993)
by Brian Moore
read 8/2010
- Dark Voyage (2004)
by Alan Furst
read 9/2010
- Suite Française (2007)
by Irène Némirovsky
read 10/2010
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006)
by Timothy Egan
read 11/2010
- Every Man Dies Alone (1947)
by Hans Fallada
read 12/2010
- Cruising Paradise: Tales (1996)
by Sam Shepard
read 1/2011
- True Grit (1968)
by Charles Portis
read 2/2011
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
by Rebecca Skloot
read 3/2011
- F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century (2007)
by Mark Levine
read 4/2011
- The Finkler Question (2010)
by Howard Jacobson
read 5/2011
- Who You Gotta Kill (2011)
by Russell Ó Fiaich
read 6/2011
- Unbroken: A WWII Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (2010)
by Laura Hillenbrand
read 7/2011
- Now You See Him (2009)
by Eli Gottlieb
read 8/2011
- The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter (2011)
by Mark Seal
read 9/2011
- County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago's Public Hospital (2010)
by David Ansell
read 10/2011
- The Silver Swan (2008)
by Benjamin Black
read 11/2011
- 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
- Supreme Courtship (2008)
by Christopher Buckley
read 1/2012
- In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
by Erik Larson
read 2/2012
- Let the Great World Spin (2009)
by Colum McCann
read 3/2012
- The Sense of an Ending (2011)
by Julian Barnes
read 4/2012
- Peace (2008)
by Richard Bausch
read 5/2012
- I Was Dora Suarez (1990)
by Derek Raymond
read 6/2012
- The Devil's Highway (2005)
by Luis Alberto Urrea
read 7/2012
- The Art of Fielding: A Novel (2011)
by Chad Harbach
read 8/2012
- A Cold Dish: A Walt Longmire Mystery (2004)
by Craig Johnson
read 9/2012
- Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (2012)
by Annie Jacobsen
read 10/2012
- Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America (2009)
by Adam Cohen
read 11/2012
- Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010)
by Judy Pasternak
read 12/2012
- Doc (2011)
by Mary Doria Russell
read 1/2013
- Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (2013)
by David Roberts
read 2/2013
- HHhH: A Novel (2012)
by Laurent Binet
read 3/2013
- Stardust: A Novel (2009)
Joseph Kanon
read 4/2013
- The Great Gatsby (1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
read 5/2013
- Cutting for Stone (2009)
by Abraham Verghese
read 6/2013
- Norwegian By Night (2013)
by Derek B. Miller
read 7/2013
- The Johnstown Flood (1968)
by David McCullough
read 8/2013
- The Likeness (2008)
by Tana French
read 9/2013
- 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
- Sabbath's Theater (1995)
by Philip Roth
read 11/2013
- Riders of the Purple Sage (2005)
by Zane Grey
read 12/2013
- The Martian Chronicles (1950)
by Ray Bradbury
read 1/2014
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
by Lawrence Wright
read 2/2014
- The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2009)
by Robert Edsel
read 3/2014
- Not Me (2005)
by Michael Lavigne
read 4/2014
- Tenth of December: Stories (2013)
by George Saunders
read 5/2014
- City of Scoundrels (2012)
by Gary Krist
read 6/2014
- Laura Rider's Masterpiece (2009)
by Jane Hamilton
read 7/2014
- How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed (1976)
by Hyman George Rickover
read 8/2014
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
by Isabel Wilkerson
read 9/2014
- The Guards (2001)
by Ken Bruen
read 10/2014
- The Cage (1983)
by Kenzo Kitakata
read 11/2014
- What's the Matter with White People? Finding Our Way in the Next America (2012)
by Joan Walsh
read 12/2014
- Innocent Killer, The: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction & its Astonishing Aftermath (2014)
by Michael Griesbach
read 1/2015
- Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life (2006)
by Ira Berkow
read 2/2015
- The Martian (2011)
by Andy Weir
read 3/2015
- Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (2003)
by Anthony P. Hatch
read 4/2015
- Ring Lardner: Selected Stories (1997)
by Ring Lardner and Jonathan Yardley
read 5/2015
- Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (2014)
by Annie Jacobsen
read 6/2015
- Lolita (1955)
by Vladimir Nabokov
read 7/2015
- 290: A Novel of the American Civil War (2015)
by Don Wonnell
read 8/2015
- One Summer: America, 1927 (2013)
by Bill Bryson
read 9/2015
- Guilt (2012)
by Ferdinand von Schirach
read 10/2015
- In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
by Hampton Sides
read 11/2015
- 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
- Tales of the Tikongs (1983)
by Epeli Hau'fa
read 1/2016
- Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (2001)
by Hampton Sides
read 2/2016
- The Flame Alphabet (2012)
by Ben Marcus
read 3/2016
- Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (2012)
by John Barylick
read 4/2016
- The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America> (2001)
by Gus Russo
read 5/2016
- A Dangerous Remedy (2017)
by Russell Fee
read 6/2016
- Consequence: A Memoir (2016)
by Eric Fair
read 7/2016
- We All Fall Down (2011)
by Michael Harvey
read 8/2016
- Hostile Waters (1997)
by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin & Alan White
read 9/2016
- A Handful of Dust (1977)
by Evelyn Waughn
read 10/2016
- Old Heart (2015)
by Peter Ferry
read 11/2016
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (2015)
by Erik Larson
read 12/2016
- The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
by Jean Rhys
read 1/2017
- The White Cascade: The Greatest Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (2007)
by Gary Krist
read 2/2017
- Fortress of Solitude (2003)
by Jonathan Lethem
read 3/2017
- The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story (2017)
by Douglas Preston
read 4/2017
- Hillbilly Elegy (2016)
by J.D. Vance
read 5/2017
- Mister Wonderful: A Love Story (2011)
by Daniel Clowes
read 6/2017
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017)
by David Grann
read 7/2017
- The Sympathizer (2015)
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
read 8/2017
- Razor Girl (2016)
by Carl Hiaasen
read 9/2017
- The Circuit: True Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1997)
by Francisco Jimenez
read 10/2017
- Tinkers (2008)
by Paul Harding
read 11/2017
- The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives (2001)
by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.
read 12/2017
- Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (2016)
by Trevor Noah
read 1/2018
- The Big Book of the Continental Op (2017)
by Dashiell Hammett
read 2/2018
- Hannibal's Niece: A Tale of Love, Murder and Deceit in Ancient Rome (2017)
by Anthony Licata
read 3/2018
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: A Tour of the Underwater World< (1870)
by Jules Verne
read 4/2018
- Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1988)
by John Ehle
read 5/2018
- The Light Between Oceans (2012)
by ML Stedman
read 6/2018
- Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014)
by Michael Koryta
read 7/2018
- The Three Musketeers (1844)
by Alexandre Dumas
read 8/2018
- Another Part of the Forest (1946)
by Lillian Hellman
read 9/2018
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy(2016)
by Heather Ann Thompson
read 10/2018
- News of the World (2016)
by Paulette Jiles
read 11/2018
- The Last Road Trip (2018)
by James Elsener
read 12/2018
- The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier (2004)
by Scott Zesch
read 1/2019
- The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel (2018)
by Jeffrey Lewis
read 2/2019
- 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
- All the Light We Cannot See (2017)
by Anthony Doerr
read 4/2019
- Washington Black (2018)
by Esi Edugyan
read 5/2019
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (2019)
by Patrick Radden Keefe
read 6/2019
- Three Men in a Boat (2018)
by Jerome K. Jerome
read 7/2019
- Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds - Survival in the Andes (2005)
by Piers Paul Read
read 8/2019
- The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America (2016)
by Ethan Michaeli
read 9/2019
- An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2006)
by Cesar Aira
read 10/2019
- Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America (2019)
by Christopher Wylie
read 11/2019
- My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018)
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
read 12/2019
- A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006)
by Jason Roberts
read 1/2020
- The Hamilton Affair (2016)
by Elizabeth Cobbs
read 2/2020
- Joyland (2013)
by Stephen King
read 3/2020
- The Third Policeman (1967)
by Fann O'Brien
read 4/2020
- Disappearing Earth (2019)
by Julia Phillips
read 5/2020
- 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
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020)
by Erik Larson
read 7/2020
- A Rising Man (2016)
by Abir Mukherjee
read 8/2020
- Ray (1980)
by Hannah Barry
read 9/2020
- 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
- American Dirt (2020)
by Jeanine Cummins
read 11/2020
- The Man With the Golden Arm (1949)
by Nelson Algren
read 12/2020
- Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (2020)
by Talia Lavin
read 1/2021
- The Searchers (1954)
by Alan LeMay
read 2/2021
- Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel (1969)
by Wallace Stegner
read 3/2021
- Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre (2019)
by Randy Krehbiel
read 4/2021
- Herzog (1964)
by Saul Bellow
read 5/2021
- A Dangerous Season: A Sheriff Matt Callahan Mystery (2017)
by Russell Fee
read 6/2021
- The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be (2019)
by Thomas Lynch
read 7/2021
- The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
by Lawrence Block
read 8/2021
- Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (2021)
by Brian Castner
read 9/2021
- The Assistant (1957)
by Bernard Malamud
read 10/2021
- Reflections of Valour (2021)
by James Elsener
read 11/2021
- The Ghost of Cleopatra: Edmonia Lewis and Her Lost Masterpiece (2019)
by John Rice and Gail Tanzer
read 12/2021
- The Laughing Monsters (2014)
by Denis Johnson
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by Robert Louis Stevenson
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