Following is an alphabetical listing of all the titles that have been read in the Nonfiction Book Club since it started in 2014:
10% Happier by Dan Harris (April, 2022)
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb (March, 2024)
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask (May, 2024)
American Fire: Love, Arson and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse (March, 2021)
American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For by David McCullough (December, 2017)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (January, 2022)
The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan (June, 2023)
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: and Their Race to Save the Worlds Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer (August, 2018)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (July, 2017)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (May, 2016)
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan (July, 2024)
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (February, 2018)
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson (April, 2021)
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (June, 2021)
Bossypants by Tina Fey (September, 2015)
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan (November, 2019)
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich (June, 2016)
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick (October, 2016)
But What if We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present as if it were the Past by Chuck Klosterman (May, 2018)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast (December, 2021)
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (August, 2023)
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky (November, 2014)
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke (November, 2023)
Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan (November, 2015)
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo (July, 2019)
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede (August, 2021)
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (February, 2017)
Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (April, 2017)
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy (March, 2023)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (March, 2015)
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington (September, 2022)
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover (February, 2021)
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in WWII by Vicki Croke (February, 2023)
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson (August, 2024)
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom (May, 2022)
Finding Me by Viola Davis (September, 2023)
The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food by Mark Kurlansky (December, 2016)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (July, 2018)
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser (July, 2022)
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (May, 2017)
The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery (October, 2023)
H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald (February, 2016)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly (October, 2017)
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben (July, 2020)
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker (November, 2024)
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance (April, 2018)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay (February, 2019)
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai (April, 2016)
I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections by Nora Ephron (January, 2021)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (October, 2018)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (September, 2017)
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom (February, 2024)
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro (February, 2020)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (January, 2018)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (May, 2015)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I. by David Grann (October, 2021)
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (March, 2016)
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson (March, 2017)
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker (November, 2017)
Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan (December, 2023)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time by Dava Sobel (December, 2014)
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas J. Preston (January, 2019)
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett (June, 2019)
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (June, 2015)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb (May, 2021)
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick (November, 2020)
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham (January, 2023)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt (January, 2015)
The Mind’s Eye by Oliver Sacks (January, 2016)
Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea by Donovan Hohn (January, 2017)
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari (September, 2016)
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (February, 2015)
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson (July, 2015)
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dicken’s London by Claire Harman (October, 2019)
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (November, 2021)
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat (November, 2016)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (April, 2015)
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers (May, 2019)
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder (July, 2021)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (February, 2022)
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman (October, 2015)
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O’Brien (January, 2024)
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough (October, 2022)
The Pirate’s Wife: The Remarkable True Story of Sarah Kidd by Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos (June 2024)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain (September, 2018)
Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting by Lisa Genova (April, 2023)
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower (January, 2020)
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America by Elizabeth Letts (December, 2022)
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (June, 2022)
The Road to Character by David Brooks (August, 2019)
The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson (August, 2016)
Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People by Tracy Kidder (September, 2024)
Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon’s Relentless Madre de Dios by Holly FitzGerald (June, 2018)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (March, 2022)
Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (August, 2017)
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (September, 2021)
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs (September, 2020)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty (November, 2022)
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed: A Journey Through the World of Public Humiliation by Jon Ronson (October, 2020)
Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford (August, 2022)
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery (August, 2020)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (April, 2019)
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel (December, 2020)
A Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life by James Bowen (March, 2018)
The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story by Cara Robertson (October, 2024)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson (October, 2014)
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (December, 2015)
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes (July, 2016)
Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O’Brien (June, 2017)
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha (September, 2019)
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (August, 2015)
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore (May, 2023)
The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (November, 2018)
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible by A.J. Jacobs (April, 2024)
