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Books We've Read in the Past:
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2024:​
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The Women - Kristin Hannah
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong
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The Frozen River - Ariel Lawhon
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Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present - Fareed Zakaria
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Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
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American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis - Adam Hochschild
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Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
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The Guncle - Steven Rowley
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy - Nathan Thrall
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2023:
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West with the Night - Beryl Markham
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Demon Copperhead - by Barbara Kingsolver
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - by Robin DiAngelo
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Lessons in Chemistry - by Bonnie Garmus
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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America - by Heather Cox Richardson
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Goodbye, Columbus - by Philip Roth
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Owls of the Eastern Ice - by Jonathan Slaght
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Horse - by Geraldine Brooks
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These Truths: A History of the United States - by Jill Lepore
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Afterlives - by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective
Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations - by James Surowiecki
2022:
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Howards End - by E. M. Forster
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Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street - by Rana Foroohar
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The Plot - by Jean Hanff Korelitz
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The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism and the Dawn of the NAACP -
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Son of Svea: A Tale of the People's Home - by Lena Andersson
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz -
by Erik Larson -
The Anomaly - by Herve Le Tellier
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The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe - by Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry
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Exhalation: Stories - by Ted Chiang
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures -
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Deacon King Kong - by James McBride
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The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist's Point of View - by Tim Crane
2021:
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News of the World - by Paulette Jiles
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
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Project Hail Mary - by Andy Weir
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White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America - by Joan C. Williams
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Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague - by Maggie O'Farrell
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Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA - by Neil Shubin
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The Night Watchman - by Louise Erdrich
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - by Carlo Rovelli
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Tyll - by Daniel Kehlmann
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The Yellow House - by Sarah M. Broom
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The Anthologist - by Nicholson Baker
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - by Isabel Wilkerson
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2020:
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The Old Man and the Sea - by Ernest Hemingway
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - by Bryan Stevenson
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Their Eyes Were Watching God - by Zora Neale Hurston
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - by Sonia Purnell
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The Overstory - by Richard Powers
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle - by Michael Booth
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The Dutch House - by Ann Patchett
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The Blue Zones: 9 Lessons for Living Longer - by Dan Buettner
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It Can't Happen Here - by Sinclair Lewis
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution - by Mona Eltahawy
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A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding - by Jackie Copleton
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The Year of Living Danishly - by Helen Russell
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2019:
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Exit West - by Mohsin Hamid
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - by Yuval Noah Harari
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The Museum of Innocence - by Orhan Pamuk
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Women V. Religion - edited by Karen L. Garst, PhD
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Unsheltered - by Barbara Kingsolver
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Becoming - by Michelle Obama
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - by Helen Simonson
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The Common Good - by Robert Reich
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Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee
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The Death and Life of the Great Lakes - by Dan Egan
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Less - by Andrew Sean Greer
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge - by Erica Dunbar
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2018:
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Sing, Unburied, Sing - by Jesmyn Ward
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - by Max Tegmark
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Station Eleven - by Emily St. John Mandel
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World - by Edward Dolnick
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Disgrace - by J. M. Coetzee
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution Betrayal and the Real Count of Monte Cristo - by Tom Reiss
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The Distant Marvels - by Chantel Acevedo
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Lab Girl - by Hope Jahren
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A Gentleman in Moscow - by Amor Towles
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Born A Crime - by Trevor Noah
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Origin - by Dan Brown
2017:
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve - by Stephen Greenblatt
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Devoted - by Jennifer Mathieu
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The Boy Kings of Texas: A Memoir - by Domingo Martinez
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Gilead - by Marilynne Robinson
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - by Jane Mayer
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The Handmaid's Tale - by Margaret Atwood
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The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt - by T. J. Stiles
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The Vegetarian - by Han Kang
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The Boys in the Boat - by Daniel James Brown
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The Buffalo Soldier - by Chris Bohjalian
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The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science - by Richard Holmes
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Ten Little Indians - by Sherman Alexie
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2016:
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - by Andrea Wulf
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Night - by Elie Wiesel
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Just Kids - by Patti Smith
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The Sympathizer - by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World - by David Silverman
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Frankenstein - by Mary Shelley
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley - by Charlotte Gordon
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The Buddha in the Attic - by Julie Otsuka
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The Omnivore's Dilemma - by Michael Pollan
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Jazz - by Toni Morrison
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Being Mortal - by Atul Gawande
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - by Julian Barnes
2015:
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Godless - by Dan Barker
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Claire of the Sea Light - by Edwige Danticat
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Between the World and Me - by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Last Night in Twisted River - by John Irving
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In the Garden of Beasts - by Erik Larson
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The Round House - by Louise Erdrich
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A Call to Action - by Jimmy Carter
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The Children Act - by Ian McEwan
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness - by Michelle Alexander
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Bangkok 8 - by John Burdett
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The Age of American Unreason - by Susan Jacoby
2014:
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The Light Between Oceans - by M. L. Stedman
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape our Decision - by Dan Ariely
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Pride and Prejudice - by Jane Austen
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American Creation - by Joseph J. Ellis
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Unaccustomed Earth - by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Ninety Percent of Everything- by Rose George
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American Pastoral - by Phillip Roth
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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery - by Eric Foner
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Middlesex - by Jeffrey Eugenides
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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel - by Ari Shavit
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The Outcast Oracle - by Laury Egan
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Eleanor of Aquitaine - by Alison Weir
2013:
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My Antonia - by Willa Cather
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story - by Jim Holt
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Flight Behavior - by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Bonobo and the Atheist - by Frans de Waal
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The Turn of the Screw - by Henry James
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1776 - by David McCullough
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Siddartha - by Hermann Hesse
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The Warmth of Other Suns - by Isabel Wilkerson
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Gilgamesh translated - by Stephen Mitchell
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The Places in Between - by Rory Stewart
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English Passengers - by Matthew Kneale
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Microbe Hunters - by Paul de Kruif
2012:
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State of Wonder - by Ann Patchett
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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt - by Nina Burleigh
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The Grapes of Wrath - by John Steinbeck
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Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt - Reader’s choice
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The Martian Chronicles - by Ray Bradbury
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - by Stephen Greenblatt
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To Kill a Mockingbird - by Harper Lee
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body - by Neil Shubin
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The Quiet American - by Graham Greene
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The God Delusion - by Richard Dawkins
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The Whiskey Rebels - by David Liss
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America - by David Von Drehle
2011:
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The Wordy Shipmates - by Sarah Vowell
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Half of a Yellow Sun - by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Into Thin Air - by Jon Krakauer
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The Plague - by Albert Camus
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Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour - by Lynn Olson
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Winesburg, Ohio - by Sherwood Anderson
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Woman, An Intimate Geography - by Natalie Angier
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True Grit - by Charles Portis
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The Moral Landscape - by Sam Harris
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Cutting for Stone - by Abraham Verghese
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2010:
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Walking Israel, a Personal Search for the Soul of Israel - by Martin Fletcher
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To Live - by Yu Hua
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Collapse - by Jared Diamond
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - by Rebecca Skloot
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The Things They Carried - by Tim O’Brien
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Cosmos - by Carl Sagan
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City of Thieves - by David Benioff
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog - by Muriel Berbery
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The Healing of America, A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Healthcare - by T. R. Reid
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The View from Castle Rock - by Alice Munro
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Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion - by Edward J. Larson.
2009:
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Madame Bovary - by Gustav Flaubert
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The Meaning of it All - by Richard Feynman
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Bel Canto - by Ann Patchet
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists - by Jean H. Baker
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Brave New World - by Aldous Huxley.
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
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The White Tiger - by Aravind Adiga.
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Apollo 13 - by James Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
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A Death in the Family - by James Agee
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The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution - by Sean B. Carroll
2008:
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The Joke - by Milan Kundera
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Dreams From My Father - by Barack Obama
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Palace Walk - by Naguib Mahfouz
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Infidel - by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Interpreter of Maladies - by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Incompleteness - by Rebecca Goldstein
2007:
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The Exception - by Christian Jungerse.
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Flow - by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The Kite Runner - by Khaled Hosseini
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Crimes Against Logic - by Jamie Whyte
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Letter to a Christian Nation - by Sam Harris