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Book Club, Narrative Nonfic - Past Titles

1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs - the Election That Changed the Country
by James Chace (October, 2012)

About Alice by Calvin Trillin (December, 2009)

Alva Myrdal: a Daughter's Memoir by Sissela Bok (March, 2012)

American Jezebel: the Uncommon Life of Ann Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
by Eve LaPlante (November, 2011)

Art of Scandal: the Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Douglass Shand-Tucci (February, 2012)

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (September, 2011)

Ava's Man by Rick Bragg (April, 2012)

Black Boy by Richard Wright (May, 2012)

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Galdwell (September, 2012)

Bossypants by Tina Fey (March, 2013)

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's -Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (July, 2011)

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo (December, 2012)

Dispatches From the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters and Survival
by Anderson Cooper (December, 2010)

Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town
by Elyssa East (August, 2010)

The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris
by Mark Kurlansky. (April, 2011)

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search
for the Virus That Caused It
By Gina Kolata (November, 2009)

For the Time Being by Annie Dillard (May, 2010)

The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft
by Ulrich Boser (June, 2011)

In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White (June, 2010)

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
by Martin Dugard (January, 2011)

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (January, 2013)

Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon (October, 2011)

The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto (October, 2009)

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
(February, 2011)

The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller
and Her Fight For Freedom
by John Bailey (April, 2010)

Love in the Driest Season by Tucker Neely (June, 2012)

My Father's Secret War by Lucinda Franks (March, 2011)

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat (January, 2010)

Notes From a Small Island by Bill Bryson (September, 2010)

Obsessive Genius: the Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith (January, 2012)

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (May, 2011)

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History by Linda Colley (December, 2011)

Passing Strange: a Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
by Martha A. Sandweiss (October, 2010)

The Planets by Dava Sobel (July, 2012)

The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
by Ted Conver (August, 2011)

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (November, 2012)

Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R. A. Scotti (February, 2013)

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (February, 2010)

The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas (July, 2010)

Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by Velma Wallis (March, 2010)

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison (November, 2010)

Young Men and Fire: A True Story of the Mann Gulch Fire by Norman Maclean (August, 2012)

Updated 3/1/2013