1215: The Year of Magna Carta by Danny Danziger, John Gillingham 3.70
9 Stories by J D Salinger 4.19
A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar 3.63
A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester 3.76
A Dangerous Place by Marc Reisner 3.64
A Dish Taken Cold by Anne Perry 3.31
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 4.37
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway 3.98
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith 3.91
A Slave No More by David W. Blight 3.75
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 3.71
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute 4.10
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson 4.04
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare : 1599 by James Shapiro 4.04
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3.77
The All-Gil Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel by Fannie Flagg 3.94
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 3.93
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 4.21
After Rain by William Trevor 4.18
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos 4.24
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham 3.76
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood 4.01
Amity and Prosperity: A Story of Energy in Two American Towns by Eliza Griswold 4.26
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears 3.88
And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat 4.06
And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 4.02
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding 3.59
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 4.25
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard 4.24
Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country by Erich Maria Remarque 4.39
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 4.13
As Big As The West by Clyde Milner 3.29
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3.72
Assembling California by John McPhee 4.16
At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson 3.93
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien 3.97
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin 4.07
Baghdad Without a Map & Other Misadventures by Tony Horwitz 3.98
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 3.56
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt 4.16
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 4.36
Beyond the 100th Meridian by Wallace Stegner 4.07
The Big Bang by Simon Singh 4.14
The Big Burn by Timothy Egan 4.02
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides 4.15
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak 4.35
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 4.50
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 4.16
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind By William Kamkwamba 4.06
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1836 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown 4.29
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 3.99
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 3.62
The Brothers K by David James Duncan 4.39
The Burgess Boys: A Novel by Elizabeth Strout 3.63
Burmese Days by George Orwell 3.79
Burr by Gore Vidal 4.02
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown 4.22
Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthly 4.24
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling 3.27
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje 3.59
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 3.95
Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat, Joan Pinkham 3.92
Charlatan by Pope Brock 3.76
Choices by Mary Lee Settle 3.91
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce 3.90
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges 4.58
The Colony : The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman 3.77
Commonwealth: A Novel by Ann Patchett 3.86
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz 4.07
Cousin Bette by Honore Balzac 3.86
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner 4.16
The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies 3.89
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese 4.24
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal-al-Sharif 4.10
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 4.09
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America by James R. Green 4.05
The Debacle by Emile Zola 4.01
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan 4.31
The Desert and the Sown by Gertrude Bell 3.83
Devil at My Heels by Louis Zamperini 4.33
Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig 3.51
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson 3.95
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? 4.11
Down And Out In Paris and London by George Orwell 4.08
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow 4.08
Dubliners by James Joyce 3.86
Earth Abides by George Stewart 3.94
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 4.47
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barberry 3.67
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis 3.97
The Emancipator's Wife by Barbara Hambly 3.79
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne 4.08
Empire Rising by Thomas Kelly 3.52
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 3.96
The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett 4.15
Everyman by Philip Roth 3.49
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman 4.17
Fall of Giants by Ken Follett 4.18
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 3.85
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 3.88
Field Notes From a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert 3.79
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 3.93
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood by Elspeth Huxley 4.10
The Floating City by Pamela Ball 3.12
The Forbidden Schoolhouse by Suzanne Jurmain 3.96
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 3.83
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby 4.10
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel 3.71
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford 4.00
Germinal by Emile Zola 4.03
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng 4.14
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, by Denise Kiernan 3.72
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 3.32
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 3.97
Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year by Charles Bracelen Flood 4.06
The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith 3.94
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind -- and Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy 4.20
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.79
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 4.09
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 4.22
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 3.78
Half-broke Horses by Jeanette Walls 3.98
The Hamlet by William Faulkner 3.86
Hamlet's Dresser A Memoir by Bob Smith 3.68
Hard Times by Charles Dickens 3.45
The Help by Kathryn Stockett 4.44
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 4.00
The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto 4.22
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance 3.97
Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow 3.50
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 3.95
Howards End by E. M. Forster 3.94
Hot Lights, Cold Steel by Michael J. Collins 3.99
I,Claudius by Robert Graves 4.26
Idiot America by Charles P. Pierce 3.61
If a Lion Could Talk by Mildred Walker 3.82
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 4.05
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman 3.54
In The Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson 3.75
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song by Mary Ellicott Arnold 4.02
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 3.32
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Becam an American Hero by Timothy Egan 4.24
The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons 3.85
Is Paris Burning? by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre 4.11
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson 4.01
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong 3.77
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto 4.11
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells 4.03
Joy in the Morning by P. G. Wodehouse 4.35
Julian: A Novel by Gore Vidal 4.14
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter 3.87
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell 3.85
King, Kaiser, Tsar by Catrine Clay 3.93
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4.18
Kiti on Ice by Phyl Manning 3.00
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester 3.85
L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais 4.25
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren 4.06
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver 3.72
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbach 4.05
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson 4.32
Left-Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navaho Autobiography by Left-Handed 3.77
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King 3.76
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa 3.99
Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym 4.03
The Library Book by Susan Orlean 3.94
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 4.13
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri 3.98
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3.59
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 3.62
Making Our Democracy Work by Stephen Breyer 3.63
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 4.31
The March by E. L. Doctorow 3.70
March by Geraldine Brooks 3.68
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich 3.99
Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard 3.72
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy 3.74
Middlemarch by George Eliot 3.89
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 3.90
Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz 3.88
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols 4.05
Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman 3.87
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones 3.65
The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck 3.85
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 3.88
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer 3.79
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings 3.34
Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough 4.11
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson 3.98
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 4.20
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 3.76
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express by Stuart Kaminsky 4.03
My Antonia by Willa Cather 3.72
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 3.89
My Life in France by Julia Child 4.14
My Mother's House by Colette 4.25
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese 4.17
My Reading Life by Pat Conroy 3.95
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor 3.79
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 4.05
News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles 4.15
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah 4.53
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffery Toobin 4.03
No Man Knows My History by Fawn Brodie 4.04
No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin 4.36
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose 3.84
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick 4.36
Notorious RBG:The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon; Shana Knizhnik 4.21
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith 3.95
Old Filth by Jane Gardam 3.94
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes 3,46
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 4,16
On a Farther Shore: the Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder 3.89
On Gold Mountain by Lisa See 3,85
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 4.49
One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs 4.14
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre 3,89
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson 3.93
Orphan Train: A Novel by Christina Baker Kline 4.08
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene 3,91
Out Of The Flames by Lawrence Goldstone and Nancy Goldstone 4.16
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson 3,76
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer 4.10
The Overstory by Richard Powers 4.20
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 4.26
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski 3.95
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham 3.85
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 4.19
Pandora's Seed by Spencer Wells 3.70
Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Macmillan 4.01
The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough 4.17
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 3.84
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 3.93
Pere Goriot by Honore Balzac 3.76
Persuasion by Jane Austen 4.12
Peter The Great by Robert Massie 4.27
Pieces of the Frame by John McPhee 4.06
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut 3.81
The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin 3.74
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 3.62
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov 3.92
Pompeii by Robert Harris 3.70
Portrait Of The Artist As Young Dog by Dylan Thomas 4.04
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym 3.99
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 4.02
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 4.09
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 3.50
The Red And The Black by Stendhal 3.83
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen 3.90
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll 4.04
The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman 3.81
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy 3.85
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan 3.23
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates 3.88
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard 4.16
Roughing It by Mark Twain 3.89
The Round House by Louise Erdrich 3.94
Runaway by Alice Munro 3.99
Runestruck by Calvin Trillin 4.27
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky 3.70
The Samurai's Garden: A Novel by Gail Tsukiyama 4.10
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian 3.84
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 4.08
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer 3.75
The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes 3.94
The Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thurbon 3.72
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Lucia Graves 4.19
Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship by Elizabeth Gille 3.53
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer 3.89
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See 3.81
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert 4.04
Snow by Orhan Pamuk 3.49
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell 4.00
The Soloist by Steve Lopez 3.84
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 3.46
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Vladimir Nabokov 4.21
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard 4.09
Spies: A Novel by Michael Frayn 3.45
Stiff by Mary Roach 4.06
Stilwell and the American Experience in China 1911-45 by Barbara Tuchman 4.12
The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago 3.78
Stoner by John Edward Williams 4.26
Storm by George Stewart 3.89
The Stranger by Albert Camus 3.89
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel 3.88
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama 3.94
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 3.75
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 3.84
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt 3.67
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carla Rifka Brunt 4.02
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 3.71
Them by Joyce Carol Oates 4.30
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 4.02
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien 4.04
Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom by Jack Fruchtman Jr. 3.83
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson 3.65
Time And Again by Jack Finney 4.03
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John LeCarre 3.99
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.22
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 3.73
Towers of Gold by Frances Dinkelspiel 4.03
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay 3.74
Transatlantic by Colum McCann 3.91
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B Traven 4.05
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante 3.65
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana 3.88
U.S.A. By John Dos Passos 4.16
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 4.45
Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee 3.87
Unsheltered: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver 3.63
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer 4.18
Vanity Fair by William M. Thackeray 3.70
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell 4.12
Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing 4.04
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 4.30
Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen 4.05
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck 3.78
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 4.37
When China Ruled the Seas,1405-1433 by Louise Levathes 3.66
When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins 4.07
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe 4.04
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig 3.95
White Noise by Don DeLillo 3.86
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston 4.02
Wind Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery 4.18
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker 4.05
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen 4.22
Without Feathers by Woody Allen 4.02
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Francis Perkins by Kirstin Downey 4.08
The World Rushed in:The California Gold Rush by J. S. Holliday 4.09
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan 4.03
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough 4.12
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma 3.86
Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean 4.02
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers 4.12
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman 3.47
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis 4.07
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ReplyDeleteThis is really nice - to have the list of books the group has already read!
ReplyDeleteWould like to read "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Published in 2014-15 and supposed a "must read" about race relations.
ReplyDeleteThe Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
ReplyDeleteThe author of An Anatomy of Addiction traces the story of brothers Harvey and Will Kellogg, one of whom became a revered doctor and founder of the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium, the other of whom founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, which eventually became General Mills.
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
ReplyDeleteThe Yellow House by Broom (about Hurricane Katrina, Natl Book Award nominee)
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