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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
