Ad Hoc Book Club

Next Mtg: Mar 6,  3 pm (at SLO Brew)
Next Book: 'An Immense World' by Ed Young

Books:

'Success and Luck' by Robert Frank

'Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History' by Lewis Dartnell

'Going Infinite' by Michael Lewis

'Trail of the The Lost ' by Andrea Lankford

'The Last Viking' by Stephen Brown

'When the Heavens Went on Sale' by Ashlee Vance

'The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery' by Adam Gopnik

'Longitude' Dava Sobel

'Fen, Bog, and Swamp' by Annie Proulx

'The End is Always Near' by Dan Carlin

'Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door' by Christopher Mims

'Over the Edge of the World' by Laurence Bergreen

'How the World Really Works' by Vaclav Smil

'A Splendid Savage' by Steve Kemper

'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson

'Listening Well' by Heather Morris

'The Man Who Broke Capitalism' by David Gelles

'Origin' by Jennifer Raff

'The Rules of Contagion' by Adam Kucharski

'The Snow Leopard' by Peter Matthiessen

'Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle' by Greg Merritt

'The Metaphysical Club' by Louis Menand

'The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot' by Robert MacFarlane

'Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI' by Max Tegmark

'The Moth and the Mountain' by Ed Caesar

'The Premonition: A Pandemic Story' by Michael Lewis

'The Code Breaker' by Walter Isaacson

'Entangled Life' by Merlin Sheldrake

'The Four Lost Cities' by Annalee Newitz

'Just Mercy' by Bryan Stevenson

'The Secret Lives of Color' by Kassie St. Clair

'A Promised Land' by Barack Obama

'In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex'' by Nathaniel Philbrick

'The Professor and the Madman: The Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary', by  Simon Winchester

'Caste: The Origins of our Discontents', by Isabel Wilkerson

'Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland' by Patrick Radden Keefe
'The Price of Peace' by Zachary Charter
'Endurance: Shackleton's incredible voyage' by Alfred Lansing
'The Better Angels of Our Nature' Steven Pinker
'The Battle for God: A History of Fundamentalism' by Karen Armstrong
'Alta California' by Nick Neely
'Good Economics for Hard Times' by Esther Duflo and A. Banerjee
'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden
'Underland' by Robert Macfarlane
'Midnight in Chernobyl' by Adam Higginbotham
'Spying on the South' by Tony Horwitz
'A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century' by Barbara Tuchman
'The Fifth Risk' by Michael Lewis
'The Book of Why' by Judea Pearl
'The Dragon Behind the Glass' by Emily Voigt
'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander
'Equations of Life' by Charles Cockell
'Assembling CA' by John McPhee
'How to Change Your Mind', by Michael Pollan
'Exact Thinking in Demented Times' by Karl Sigmund
'Electric Kool Aid Acid Test' by Tom Wolfe
'The Death and Life of the Great Lakes' by Dan Egan
'Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics' by Immanuel Kant
'Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI', by David Grann
'A Moveable Feast' by Ernest Hemingway
'Leonardo da Vinci' by Walter Isaacson
'Fantasyland' by Kurt Anderson
'At the Existential Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails' by Sarah Bakewell
'The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe' by Jill Eisenstein
'The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds' by Michael Lewis