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Reference Desk: Tuesday Night Book Group Selections

These books have been the topic of discussion at our Tuesday Night Book Group. For information about this month's meeting, please see our Monthly Series page. Choose from the list below to jump to selections from a particular year:

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2012	January	Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Mary Roach
	February	Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand
	March	Blue Nights Joan Didion
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2011	January	Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
	February	Lit: A Memoir Mary Karr
	March	Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory Ben Macintyre.
	April	Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Barbara Demick
	May	Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives Annie Murphy Paul
	June	Hitch-22: A Memoir Christopher Hitchens
	July	Pearl Buck in China : Journey to The Good Earth Hilary Spurling
	August	The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival John Vaillant
	September	The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam Eliza Griswold
	October	At Home: A Short History of Private Life Bill Bryson
	November	Cleopatra: A Life Stacy Schiff
	December	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot

2010	January	American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham
	February	The Forever War Dexter Filkins
	March	Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) Tom Vanderbilt
	April	The Case for God Karen Armstrong
	May	Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Christopher McDougall
	June	Strength in What Remains Tracy Kidder
	July	Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe Gillian Tett
	August	Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
	September	Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite Frank Bruni
	October	Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability David Owen.
	November	Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America Barbara Ehrenreich.
	December	Zeitoun Dave Eggers

2009	January	The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin
	February	Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain Oliver Sacks
	March	The Zookeepers Wife Diane Ackerman
	April	The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America David Hajdu
	May	Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America Donna Foote
	June	The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Kate Summerscale
	July	This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust
	August	Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives Jim Sheeler
	September	American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century Paula Uruburu
	October	Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Neil Shubin
	November	The Post-American World Fareed Zakaria
	December	Nothing to Be Frightened Of Julian Barnes

2008	January	The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story Richard Preston
	February	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcom Gladwell
	March	Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy Anna Politkovskaya
	April	Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife Mary Roach
	May	Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog John Grogan
	June	Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank Lisa Margonelli
	July	The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption Barbara Bisantz Raymond
	August	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Barbara Kingsolver
	September	Change Your Brain, Change Your Life: Training Your Brain for Peak Performance Daniel G. Amen
	October	The World Without Us Alan Weisman
	November	Here If You Need Me: A True Story Kate Braestrup
	December	Sweet and Low: A Family Story Rich Cohen

2007	January	Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky
	February	Flags of Our Fathers James Bradley
	March	An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It Al Gore
	April	Letter to a Christian Nation Sam Harris
	May	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Timothy Egan
	June	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures Anne Fadiman
	July	Polio: An American Story David M. Oshinsky
	August	Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees Caroline Moorehead
	September	Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero David Maraniss
	October	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War Nathaniel Philbrick
	November	Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern World David Bodanis
	December	Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Atul Gawande