Non-Fiction Book Club Selection History (95 Meetings & Counting)

February 28, 2012

Why The West Rules For Now

Ian Morris
Steve

December 6, 2011

January 26, 2012

Taming The Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents

Ian Burumal
Don August 30, 2011

Misadventures of the Most Favored Nations

Paul Blustein
Ferg

Nov. 3, 2011

Doctoring the Mind: Why psychiatric treatments fail

Richard P. Bentall
Harold

Salt
Mark Kurlansky

Joe

May 11, 2011

June 27, 2011

Hero:The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

Michael Korda
Tim

The File
Timothy Garton Ash

Wayne

Jan.19, 2011

March 29, 2011

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

Paul Therouxr
Fergus

Natashas Dance
Orland Figes

Bob

Nov.10, 2010

Dec.8, 2010

The Measure of All Things

Ken Adler
Joe

Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes

Don

The Measure of All Things

Ken Adler
Joe

Matterhorn
Karl Marlantes

Don

Aug.18, 2010

Oct. 7, 2010

The Edge of Physics

Anil Anan Thaswany
Bob

The Lady Queen

Nancy Goldstone

Harold

May 6, 2010

July 7, 2010

Lady Franklins Revenge

Ken McGoogan
Bob

The Fourth Part of the World

Toby Lester
Tim

January 13, 2010

March 31, 2010

The Evolution of God

Robert Wright
Don

RM Nixon:The Invincible Quest

Conrad Black
Fergus

Sept.24, 2009

November 18 , 2009

The Man Who Loved China

Simon Winchester
Wayne

The State of Jones

Sally Jenkins & John Stouffer
Harold

June 16, 2009

August 12, 2009

Cool It
Bjorn Lomborg
Bob

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Tim

March 11, 2009

May 6, 2009

A Fair Country
John Ralston Saul
Don

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer
Fergus

Nov. 27, 2008

Jan.14, 2009

Indel

Twilight in the Desert

Nov. 27, 2008

Jan.14, 2009

Indel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Wayne

Twilight in the Desert

Matthew R.Simmons

Harold

August 27, 2008

Oct.9, 2008

The Varieties of Scientic Experience

Carl Sagan
Bob

The Drunkards Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

Leonard Mlodinow
Tim

May 14, 2008 June 24, 2008

Ambivalence Crossing the Israel/ Palestine Divide

Jonathon Garnkel

Freedom at Midnight
Collins & LaPierre Fergus

Don

March 5, 2008 April 7, 2008

Ghengis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weathereld
Wayne

The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold
Geoffrey Robertson
Harold

Oct 23, 2007 Nov. 28, 2007

Keplers Witch
James A. Connor

God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens
Tim

Bob

July 11, 2007 August 22, 2007

The Brain That Changes Itself

Norman Doidge, M.D.
Harold

Structures or Why Things Dont Fall Down

J.E.Gordon
Fergus

April 18, 2007

May 28, 2007

Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress

Lawrence E.Harrison Samuel P.Huntington
Don

The Best American Science Writing 2006

edited by Atul Gawande
Wayne

January 17, 2007

Future:Tense The Coming World Order

March 5 , 2007

Gwynne Dyer

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
Peter W. Galbraith
Tim

Always Fresh The Untold Story of Tim Hortons

Ron Joyce
Saul

October 5, 2006

December 14, 2006

West With the Night

Beryl Markham

Sailing Alone Around the World

Joshua Slocum

Fergus

Bob

June 14, 2006

August 9, 2006

1491:New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

Confessions of an Economic Hitman

John Perkiins

Wayne

Harold

March 8, 2006

May 10, 2006

The Drug Trial: Nancy Olivieri and the Science Scandal that Rocked the Hospital for Sick Children
Miriam Shuchman
Saul

Mozart in the Jungle:Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Blair Tindall
Don

September 21, 2005

November 30, 2005

Shake Hands With the Devil

Romeo Dallaire

The Agile Gene How Nature Turns On Nurture

Matt Ridley Bob

Fergus


Fergus

Matt Ridley Bob

June 1, 2005

July 27, 2005

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering

Samuel C. Florman
Wayne

One Mans Castle

Phyllis Vine

Harold

March 15, 2005

May 11, 2005

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hossein

The Science of Good and Evil

Michael Shermer
Don January 19, 2005

Saul
December 8, 2004

Dark Age Ahead

Jane Jacobs

CDs

The Emergence of a New World Order

Dr. Carlos Rizawy

Tim August 25, 2004

Bob

October 27, 2004

Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town

Paul Theroux (not in attendance)
Fergus Harold June 13, 2004

Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad

The Life: The Seductive Call of Politics The Dark Side:The Personal Side of a Political Life
Steve Paikin (in attendance)
Don

July 13, 2004

Prescription for Excellence:How Innovation Is Saving Canada's Health Care System

Michael Rachlis,M.D.(in attendance)
Wayne

March 10, 2004

April 19, 2004

The Voyage of the Northern Magic

Diane Stuemer

1968 The Year That Rocked the World

Mark Kurlanzky

Bob

Tim

November 19, 2003

January 14, 2004

To The Edge of The Sky

Anhua Gao

All The Shah's Men

Stephen Kinzer

November 19, 2003

January 14, 2004

To The Edge of The Sky

Anhua Gao
Fergus

All The Shah's Men

Stephen Kinzer

Harold

July 9, 2003

September 7, 2003

Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Michael Korda
Tim

The Best American Science Writing 2002

Edited by Matt Ridley
Wayne

April 23, 2003

May 21, 2003

Power & Greed: A Short History of the World

Philippe Gigantes
Don

TAPES

The Emergence of the New World Order

Dr.Carlos Rizowy
Bob

January 15, 2003

March 5, 2003

The Myth of the Good War

Jacques R.Pauels (in attendance)

Good News for a Change

David Suzuki & Holly Dresser
Terry

Harold

October 9, 2002

November 20, 2002

The Future of the Past

Alexander Stille

The Skeptical Environmentalist

Bjorn Lomborg
Fergus

Wayne

June 27, 2002

August 14, 2002

What If? The Mystery of Capital

Hernando de Soto Edited by Robert Cowley Stephen Ambrose
Tim

Harold

March 9, 2002

May 22, 2002

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Robert S. MacNamara Brian Vandemark (Contributor) Don

Overland to starvation Cove:With the Inuit in search of Franklinn 1878 - 1880

Heinrich Klutschal, William Barr

Bob

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

Robert S. MacNamara Brian Vandemark (Contributor) Don

Overland to starvation Cove:With the Inuit in search of Franklinn 1878 - 1880

Heinrich Klutschal, William Barr

Bob

November 21, 2001

January 23, 2002

No Apparent Danger: The True Story of Volcanic Disaster at Galeras and Nevado del Ruiz
Victoria Bruce

Surviving Galeras
Stanley Williams & Fen Montaigne
Fergus

The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
Hugh Brody
Terry

July 10, 2001

October 3, 2001

Genome:The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley
Tim

Can Asians Think? Understanding the Divide Between East and West
Kishore Mahbubani
Wayne

March 28, 2001

May 16, 2001

Lawrence, The Uncrowned King of Arabia

Michael Asher
Don

The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush
Tom Ashbrook
Harold

December 13, 2000

January 21, 2001

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Paul Hawking, et al
Terry

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love

Dava Sobel
Bob

September 12, 2000

October 8, 2000

The Trial of Socrates

I.F.Stone
Wayne

The Professor and the Madman

Simon Winchester
Fergus

June 13, 2000

July 11, 2000

The Nature of Economies

Jane Jacobs

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaling Ship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
Harold

Gault

Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
Gault Harold

April 19, 2000

May 16, 2000

Confessions of an Igloo Dweller

James Houston
Bob

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies

Jarad Diamond
Wayne

January 19, 2000

March 22, 2000

The Sharp End - A Canadian Soldier's Story

James R. Davis
Fergus

African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887 - 1892

Roy MacLaren
Don

Nov 24, 1999 July 14, 1999

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Louis de Bernieres
Bob

Seven Experiments That Could Change The World

Rupert Sheldrake
Terry

Apr 14, 1999

May 18, 1999

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer
Fergus

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Stephen Ambrose
Don

January 13, 1999 March 24, 1999

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind

V.S. Ramachandran Sandra Blakeslee
Wayne

What Are People For?

Wendell Berry
Terry