Nonfiction Book List

Click here to read blurbs (from Amazon.com) on each of the books for our April nonfiction book clubs.

You might also look them up on Amazon.com, where you can often browse sample pages, see the covers, etc. Keep availability of texts in mind as you make your selections, and remember that we're looking for groups of three to five per book.

The complete list is:

• Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
  
• How Doctors Think
  
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
  
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  
• The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill
  
• Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib
  
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
  
• Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
  
• The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
  
• Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America’s Educationally Underprepared
  
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
  
• Random Family
  
• I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away
  
• Paris to the Moon
  
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
  
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
  
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
  
• In Cold Blood
  
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
  
• The Power of Babel
  
• The Mismeasure of Man
  
• Silent Spring
  
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  
• Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology