Nonfiction Book Group

 Chair:
 
Nancy Worden

 

This group meets every other month, at 1:00 p.m.
We welcome new members.
 

DATE

 BOOK  AND  AUTHOR

HOST

Feb 12

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin 

Elaine Sullivan

 Apr 9

 Lessons in Disaster
Gordon Goldstein

 Lana Muraskin

 Jun 11

 Rising From the Plains
John McPhee

Deborah Tepper

 Aug 13

 The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell

 Pat Spaltro

 Oct 8

 The Innocent Man
John Grisham

 Pam Neas

 Dec 10

 The Places in Between
Rory Stewart

 Susanne Dominguez

 

Books We've Read:

 Mo-Yr

 Book and Author

 Rating

 12-09

 The House at Otowi Bridge
Peggy Pond Church
 

 10-09

  Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson

 8.9

 8-09

 Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert

 5.4

 6-09

  River of Traps
William DeBuys

 8

 4-09

  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

 7.75

 2-09

 Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

 3.2

 12-08

 Ladies of Liberty
Cokie Roberts

 4.8

 10-08

  How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill

  7

 8-08

  The Zookeeper's Wife
Diane Ackerman

 7.7

 6-08

  How Doctors Think
Dr. Jerome E. Groopman

 7.2

 4-08

  Blood and Thunder
Hampton Sides

 8.5

 2-08

  The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan

 8.7

 12-07

  The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond

 7

 10-07

  Reason for Hope
Jane Goodall

 8

 8-07

  Fiasco: The American Military
Adventures in Iraq

Thomas Ricks

 6

 6-07

  Confessions of an Economic Hitman
John Perkins

 7

 4-07

  The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt

 6

 2-07

  A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

 8

 12-06

 Charles Dickens
Jane Smiley
 

 10-06

  Freakonomics
Steven Levitt
 

 8-06

  Chiva: A Village Takes on the
Global Heroin Trade

Chellis Glendinning
 

 6-06

  The Great Influenza
John Barry
 

 4-06

 Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on
an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande
 

 2-06

 A History of God
Karen Armstrong
 

 12-05

     My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
 

 

Members

Irene Gale
Lana Muraskin
Pam Neas
Maureen Oakes
Sharon Sanfelippo
Diane Shepard
Pat Spaltro
Elaine Sullivan
Gail Tatterson
Debbie Tepper
Nancy Worden,
CHAIR

 

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