2025
The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu (translation by Ken Liu), September-October.
Meditations, Marcus Aurelius (translation by Gregory Hays), September-October.
The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol, Martha Wells, September.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, August-September.
Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel, August-September.
The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition, Martha Wells, August.
Brain Bugs: How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives, Dean Buonomano, June-July.
2024
The Road to Character, David Brooks, March-August (off and on w/ e-library checkouts)
This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, June
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, Adam Grant, May.
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash, Yahtzee Croshaw, March-May.
The Housemaid, Freida McFadden, January
2023
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, Nir Eyal, October-November.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek, September-October.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel, Gabrielle Zevin, September-October.
The Color of Magic: A Discworld Novel, Terry Pratchett, August-September.
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters, Kate Murphy, July-August.
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, March.
The Silence, Don DeLillo, January.
2022
Paddle your own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living, Nick Offerman, November.
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, Dave Grohl. February-March.
2021
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah, August-November.
The College Administrator's Survival Guide, C.K. Gunsalus, January-October (off & on).
2020
2019
Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, Gustavo Arellano, November.
Why we Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, July-August.
2018
2017
2016
A Walk in the Woods:Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson, November-December.
The Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child; July-August.
The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel, Stephen King; January-May.
2015
2014
Patient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel, Jonathan Maberry; November-December.
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell; November.
2013
2012
Thinking, Fast and slow, Daniel Kahneman; September-January.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story, John Berendt; April-May.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson; February-March.
The Gypsy Morph: Genesis of Shannara 3, Terry Brooks; January-February.
The Elves of Cintra: Genesis of Shannara 2, Terry Brooks; January.
2011
Armageddon's Children: The Genesis of Shannara 1, Terry Brooks; December.
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis; October-November.
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow; September.
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, Rajiv Chandrasekaran; August.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman; May.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchiking the Galaxy One Last Time, Douglas Adams; January.
2010
The Diamond Age, or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Neal Stephenson; November-December.
Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics, Ian Stewart; October.
Decision-Making and Rationality in the Modern World, Keith E. Stanovich; September-October.
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, Christof Koch; June-July.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; May.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn; April.
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, Malcolm Gladwel; March.
Big Brain: The Origins and Future of Human Intelligence, Gary Lynch and Richard Granger; February.
House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth, Robyn M. Dawes; January-February.
2009
Cemetary Dance, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; December.
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World, Tim Harford, September.
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Jon Krakauer, September.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely, August-September.
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others, Marco Iacoboni, July.
The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics, Stanislas Dehaene, June-July.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Stephen W. Hawking, May-June.
Mirrors in the Brain, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia, April-May.
The Wheel of Darkness, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; March-April.
2008
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, Duncan J. Watts; November/December.
Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You, Gerg Gigerenzer; October.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon; September.
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell; August.
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb; July.
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan; April.
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, Eric Kandel; February/March.
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, Gerd Gigerenzer; February.
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy; January/February.