Books Read by the Oreo Book Club
2008 – Present
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2008
5/08 Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Alex Von Tunzelmann
6/08 The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood
7/08 Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen P. Dubner
8/08 Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks
9//08 Team of Rivals – Lincoln and his Cabinet
Doris Kearns Goodwin
10/08 The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin
and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
David Quammen
11/08 The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
Simon Winchester
12/08 The Places in Between
Rory Stewart
2009
1/09 Waking Giant, American in the Age of Jackson
David Reynolds
2/09 Dreams From my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama
3/09 The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, in the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
4/09 The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
5/09 Deer Hunting with Jesus – Dispatches from America’s Class War
Joe Bageant
6/09 Confederates in the Attic – Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
7/09 The Lost City of Z – A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
David Grann
8/09 Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
9/09 Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why we Justify Foolish Beliefs,
Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts
Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
10/09 The Omnivore’s Dilemma—A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
11/09 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor
2010
1/10 Einstein
Walter Isaacson
2/10 The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works
Henry Waxman and Joshua Green
3/10 The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
4/10 Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Jon Meacham
5/10 The Elephant and the Dragon—The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us
Robyn Meredith
6/10 The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday – Unexpected
Encounters in the changing Middle East
Neil MacFarquhar
7/10 A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
8/10 Country Driving: A Journey through China from Farm to Factory
Peter Hessler
9/10 Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States
Edward Blakely & Mary Snyder
10/10 Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
Stacy A. Cordery
11/10 The Worst Hard Time – The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
2011
1/11 Primate’s Memoir: A Neuroscientist’s Unconventioanl Life Among Baboons
Robert M. Sapolsky
2/11 The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Bill Bryson
3/11 Globish: How English Became the World’s Language
Robert McCrum
4/11 Making our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View
Stephen Breyer
5/11 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. I
Edited by Harriet E. Smith
6/11 Henry Clay: The Essential American
David S. Heidler & Jeanne T. Heidler
7/11 Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise & Fall of the Lawyer who brought
Corporate America to its Knees,
Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon
8/11 Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World
Weatherford
9/11 Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
10/11 Voltaire – A Life
Ian Davidson
11/11 The Forgotten Founding Father – Noah Webster
Joshua Kendall
2012
1/12 The Next Decade: Empire and Republic in a Changing World
George Friedman (2011)
2/12 Hero – The Life of Lawrence of Arabia
Michael Korda
3/12 How we Decide
Jonah Lehrer (2009)
4/12 The Way of the World – From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty First Century
David Fromkin (1998)
5/12 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens (2011)
6/12 Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War
David Nichols (2011)
7/12 Waiting for Snow in Havana – Confessions of a Cuban Boy
Carlos Eire (2003)
8/12 Catherine the Great – Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie (2011)
9/12 End the Depression Now!
Paul Krugman (2012)
10/12 Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo (2012)
11/12 The Forever War
Dexter Filkins (2008)
2013
1/13 The Big Burn – Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire that Saved America
Timothy Egan (2009)
2/13 Red Dust – A Path through China
Mai Jian (2001)
3/13 Drift – The Unmooring of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow (2012)
4/13 Time to Start Thinking: America In The Age Of Descent
Edward Luce
5/13 The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Edmund de Waal.
6/13 After The Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, The Response and the Work Ahead
Alan Binder
7/13 The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt
8/13 The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Joseph Steiglitz
9/13 This Child Will Be Great
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
10/13 Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
11/13 The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless
and the Middle Class Got Shafted
Mike Lofgren
2014
1/14 Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
2/14 Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
Jim Sterba
3/14 The Favored Daughter
Fawzia Koofi
4/14 The Sultan’s Shadow
Christianne Bird
5/14 Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
Ruchir Sharma
6/14 Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv
7/14 The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea
David Helvarg
8/14 Russians: The People Behind the Power
Gregory Feifer
9/14 Train: Riding the Rails that Created the Modern World—from the Trans-Siberian to the Southwest Chief
Tom Zoellner
10/14 Strategic Vision—America and the Crisis of Global Power
Zbigniew Brzezinski
11/14 Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Scott Anderson
2015
1/15 Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan
2/15 Why Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History
David Klinghoffer
3/15 The Boys in the Boat
Daniel Jones Brown
4/15 Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape our Man-Made World
Mark Miodownik
5/15 Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
6/15 The Revenge of Geography
Robert D. Kaplan
7/15 One Summer: America 1927
Bill Bryson
8/15 The Sixth Extinction—An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
9/15 Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?
Michael Sandel
10/15 Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
11/15 Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Mark Adams
2016
1/16 Superpower
Ian Bremer
2/16 Heretic
Aayan Hirsi Ali
3/16 The Road to Character
David Brooks
4/16 God’s Bankers (The Vatican)
Gerald Posner
5/16 One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin M. Kruse
6/16 American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led us to Forget What Made America Prosper
Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
7/16 Water to the Angels (Mulholland Story)
Les Standiford
8/16 American Caesar – Douglas MacArthur
William Manchester
9/16 Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars – Even When They Lost Elections
Stephen Prothero
10/16 Re-Writing the Rules of the American Economy
Joseph Stieglitz
11/16 The Imperial Cruise (Teddy Roosevelt)
James Brady
2017
01/17 The Fix: How Nations Thrive in a World in Decline
Jonathan Tepperman
02/17 ISIS The State of Terror
Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger
03/17 Hillbilly Elegy (A memoir of growing up in a poor white neighborhood.)
D. Vance
04/17 Cadillac Desert (Water reclamation in the American West)
Mark Reisner
05/17 No meeting
06/17 The King and Queen of Malibu
David K. Randall
07/17 Sapiens – A Brief History of Mankind
Yuval Harari
.08/17 Sapiens – A Brief History of Mankind
Yuval Harari
09/17 Drawdown – Climate Change Issues
Paul Hawkins
10/17 Thank You for Being Late – An Optimists Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration
Thomas Friedman
11/17 Dark Money
Ane Mayer
2018
01/18 The Gene – History of Genetics
Siddhartha Mukherjee
02/18 Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War
Peter Conradi
03/18 Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
Ben Rich and Leo Janos
04/18 Rigor Mortis – How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope and Wastes Billions
Richard Harris (2017)
05/18 Everybody Lies – Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are
Seth Stevens-Davidowitz (2017)
06/18 Evicted – Poverty & Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond (2017 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction)
07/18 Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
08/18 State of Resistance – What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for American’s Future
Manuel Pastor
09/18 The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife.
Lucy Cook
10/18 The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist who transformed what
America Eats
Daniel Stone
11/18 The Rothschilds: A Family portrait
Frederic Morton
2019
01/19 Political Tribes – Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Amy Chua
02/19 Behemoth – A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
Joshua B. Freeman
03/19 The Common Good (2018)
Robert Reich
04/19 Leadership in Turbulent Times (2018) (Pulitzer Prize)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
05/19 The Case Against the Supreme Court (2015)
Erwin Chemerinsky
06/19 The Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (2018)
David Christian
07/19 Sea of Glory (2004)
Nathaniel Philbrick
08/19 1776 (2005)
David McCullough
09/19 The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks: Tales of Important Geological Puzzles and the People Who Solved Them
Donald R. Prothero
10/19 The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
11/19 Secret Empires
Peter Schweizer
2020
01/20 The Point of It All
Charles Krauthammer
02/20 Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss
03/20 The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law that kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians
and other European Immigrants Out of America
Daniel Okrent
04/20 The Politics of Petulance: American in the Age of Immaturity (2018)
Alan Wolfe
05/20 America Compromised
Lawrence Lessig (2018)
2022
01/22 Peril
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa
02/22 Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
03/22 The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Micahel Lewis
04/22 The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
04/22 – 05/22 Klaus Muhlhahn
Making China Modern
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