Books List

2025

1. The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (translation by Ken Liu), September-October.

2. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (translation by Gregory Hays), September-October.

3. The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells, September.

4. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, August-September.

5. Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, August-September.

6. The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition, Martha Wells, August.

7. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age, Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman, July-August.

8. The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red, Martha Wells, July. 

9. Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, Dean Buonomano, June-July. 

10. Artificial Wisdom, Thomas R. Weaver, May-June. 

11. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab, March-May.

12. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life, Dacher Keltner, February-March. 

13. Immortal Longings, Chloe Gong, January.

2024

1. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg, October - December

2. Catch-22, Joseph Heller, October - December

14. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein, October

15. Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey, September

16. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, August

17. The Road to Character, David Brooks, March-August (off and on w/ e-library checkouts)

18. Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey, June-July.

19. This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, June

20. They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera, June. 

21. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, Adam Grant, May. 

22. Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, Yahtzee Croshaw, March-May.

23. The Stranger, Albert Camus, February.  

24. Recursion, Blake Crouch, February.

25. Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding, Daniel Lieberman, December-January.

26. The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, January

27. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, Rethinking Medicine to Live Better Longer, Peter Attia with Bill Gifford, January.

28. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin, January.

2023

1. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, November.

2. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal, October-November.

3. Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, October.

4. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek, September-October.

5. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel, Gabrielle Zevin, September-October.

6. The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel, Terry Pratchett, August-September.

7. You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters, Kate Murphy, July-August.

8. Animal Farm, George Orwell, July.

9. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, June-July.

10. Supermarket, Bobby Hall, May-June.

11. The Nineties: A Book, Chuck Klosterman, April-May.

12. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, March.

13. The Silence, Don DeLillo, January.

14. Will Save the Galaxy for Food, Yahtzee Croshaw, January.

2022

1. Upgrade: A Novel, Blake Crouch, December.

2. Paddle your own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, Nick Offerman, November.

3. Dark Matter, Blake Crouch, October.

4. Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline, June.

5. The Giver, Lois Lowry. April.

6. The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl. February-March.

2021

1. Spartan Up!: A Take-no-prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life, Joe De Sena & Jeff O'Connell, December.

2. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside, Nick Offerman, December.

3. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah, August-November.

4. The College Administrator's Survival Guide, C.K. Gunsalus, January-October (off & on).

5. The Toll, Neal Shusterman, March.

6. How to be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi, February-March.

7. Thunderhead, Neal Shusterman, January.

2020

1. Scythe, Neal Shusterman, December.

2. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami, December-January.

2019

1. Talking to Strangers: What we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm Gladwell, November-December.

2. Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, Gustavo Arellano, November.

3. The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton, September.

4. Why we Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, July-August.

2018

1. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked, Adam Alter, December.

2017

1. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline, December.

2. American Gods, Neil Gaiman, April-June.

3. The Walking Dead: Compendium 3, Robert Kirkman, March.

4. The Walking Dead: Compendium 2, Robert Kirkman, January.

5. The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds, Michael Lewis, January-February.

2016

1. The Walking Dead: Compendium 1, Robert Kirkman, December.

2. A Walk in the Woods:Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson, November-December.

3. Inferno, Dan Brown; August-September.

4. The Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child; July-August.

5. The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel, Stephen King; January-May.

2015

1. Cold Vengeance, Douglas Preson & Lincoln Child; August-September.

2. The Strain, Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan; July-August.

2014

1. Bossypants, Tina Fey; December.

2. Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel, Jonathan Maberry; November-December.

3. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell; November.

4. Reamde, Neal Stephenson; A really, really long time (it is a long book and I could only find time to get through it off and on, but finally made it!).

2013

1. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner; September-October.

2. Freedom TM, Daniel Suarez; September.

3. Daemon, Daniel Suarez; August-September.

4. Pearl Jam 20, August.

5. Dreams and Shadows, C. Robert Cargill; July-August.

6. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood; January-March.

2012

1. Thinking, Fast and slow, Daniel Kahneman; September-January.

2. Farnham's Freehold, Robert A. Heinlein; August.

3. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk; July.

4. The Zap Gun, Philip K. Dick; July.

5. The Bomb: A New History, Stephen M. Younger; June.

6. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Stieg Larsson; May.

7. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story, John Berendt; April-May.

8. The Girl who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson; April.

9. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay; April.

10. The Speaker for the Dead, Orson Scott Card; March.

11. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card; March.

12. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson; February-March.

13. Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crighton; February.

14. The Gypsy Morph: Genesis of Shannara 3, Terry Brooks; January-February.

15. The Elves of Cintra: Genesis of Shannara 2, Terry Brooks; January.

2011

1. Armageddon's Children: The Genesis of Shannara 1, Terry Brooks; December.

2. Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins; November.

3. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis; October-November.

4. Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins; October.

5. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins; October.

6. The Fortunate Pilgrim, Mario Puzo; September-October.

7. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow; September.

8. Billy Budd, Herman Melville; August.

9. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton; August.

10. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran; August.

11. Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennet, & Reginald B. Adams, Jr.; July.

12. The Hot Kid, Elmore Leonard; June.

13. Neuromancer, William Gibson; May-June.

14. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman; May.

15. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling; May.

16. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby; April.

17. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, Ben Mezrich; April.

18. The Pearl, John Steinbeck; March.

19. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeral; March.

20. Fever Dream, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child; February.

21. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchiking the Galaxy One Last Time, Douglas Adams; January.

2010

1. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury; December.

2. The Diamond Age, or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson; November-December.

3. Joshua, Son of None, Nancy Freedman; November.

4. Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics, Ian Stewart; October.

5. Decision-Making and Rationality in the Modern World, Keith E. Stanovich; September-October.

6. White Noise, Don DeLillo; September.

7. The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us, Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons; August-September.

8. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein; August.

9. Lies, Inc., Phillip K. Dick, July.

10. The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, Christof Koch; June-July.

11. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, Michael Pollan; June.

12. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; May.

13. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn; April.

14. What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwel; March.

15. Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger; February.

16. House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth, Robyn M. Dawes; January-February.

2009 

1. Cemetary Dance, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; December.

2. Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, Alva Noe; November.

3. Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell; October.

4. Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith, October.

5. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World, Tim Harford, September.

6. Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer, September.

7. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely, August-September.

8. Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, August.

9. Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others, Marco Iacoboni, July.

10. The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Stanislas Dehaene, June-July.

11. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Stephen W. Hawking, May-June.

12. Mirrors in the Brain, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, April-May.

13. The Wheel of Darkness, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; March-April.

14. I am a Strange Loop, Douglas Hofstadter; February-March.

15. Seven Deadly Wonders, Matthew Reilly; February.

16. The Road, Cormac McCarthy; January.

 2008

1. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Duncan J. Watts; November/December.

2. Lucky You, Carl Hiaasen; November.

3. Dermaphoria, Craig Clevenger; October.

4. Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You, Gerg Gigerenzer; October.

5. Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk; October.

6. Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life, Steven H. Strogatz; September/October.

7. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon; September.

8. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner; August.

9. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell; August.

10. Contact, Carl Sagan; July.

11. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb; July.

12. The Chase, Clive Cussler; June.

13. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy; June.

14. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick; May.

15. Basket Case, Carl Hiaasen; April-May.

16. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan; April.

17. Vulcan’s Hammer, Philip K. Dick; April.

18. Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami; March-April.

19. Steppenwolf, Hermann Hess; March.

20. In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, Eric Kandel; February/March.

21. The Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman; February/March.

22. Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, Gerd Gigerenzer; February.

23. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy; January/February.

24. Into the Wild, John Krakauer; January.