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BCDC has discussed or will discuss the following books. Click on the title to see BCDC's reading guides for these books along with other information about the meeting as available.
April 2007 -- The Race to Save the Lord God Bird by
Phillip Hoose
("Animals")
July 2005 -- 1776 by David McCullough June 2005 -- The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod April 2005 -- The Impossible Bird by Patrick O'Leary February 2005 -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon January 2005 -- The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger November 2004 -- Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island by Ved Mehta October 2004 -- Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz August 2004 -- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few & How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations by James Surowiecki July 2004 -- The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Explores Myth, Medicine, and the Human Body by Sherwin Nuland June 2004 -- No Logo by Naomi Klein April 2004 -- Perdido Street Station by China Mieville February 2004 -- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro January 2004 -- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson December 2003 -- Empire Falls by Richard Russo October 2003 -- She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan September 2003 -- The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi July 2003 -- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi June 2003 -- The Future of Life by E. O. Wilson April 2003 -- Life of Pi by Yann Martel March 2003 -- House by Tracy Kidder January 2003 -- The Transparent Society by David Brin November 2002 -- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis September 2002 -- Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin July 2002 -- Washington by Meg Greenfield June 2002 -- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy May 2002 -- The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places by Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass March 2002 -- The Alienist by Caleb Carr February 2002 -- Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It by Julie M. Fenster December 2001 -- The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes. October 2001 -- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud in conjunction with Fables and Reflections by Neil Gaiman. August 2001 -- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara June 2001 -- The De-Voicing of Society: Why We Don't Talk to Each Other Anymore by John Locke May 2001 -- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien April 2001 -- And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran Other titles that have been suggested but not chosen yet include: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren Only Yesterday by Frederick Allen Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads by Stephen Asma The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad First Shot, Last Call (100 Bullets, Book 1) by Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso (Illustrator), Dave Johnson (Illustrator) Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century by James Bamford Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes The Boys of My Youth by Jo Ann Beard The Denial of Death by Earnest Becker Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 Edited by Emily Bernard The Good Old Days...They Were Terrible! by Otto Bettmann Love at Goon Park by Deborah Blum Let Them Eat Data by C.A. Bowers The Clock of the Long Now by Steward Brand Medieval Comic Tales edited by Derek Brewer Earth by David Brin The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown The Mating Season by Alex Brunkhorst In a Sunburnt Country by Bill Bryson The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsesssion and the Last Mystery of the Senses by Chandler Burr In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor The End of Millennium by Manuel Castells The Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Chene Waging Modern War by Wesley Clark Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee Microserfs by Douglas Coupland The Hours by Michael Cunningham Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai Underworld by Don Delillo The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Collapse by Jared Diamond Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliot Founding Brothers : The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century by Bill Emmott The 13th Element by John Emsley Solitaire by Kelley Eskeridge Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff The New Lifetime Reading Plan by Clifton Fadiman Uninsured in America by Rushika Fernandopulle Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nicholas Flynn How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Tomas C. Foster The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel Carpenter's Gothic by William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Gailbraith American Gods by Neil Gaiman One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Omensetter's Luck by William Gass Neuromancer by William Gibson Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives by Todd Gitlin The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow Three Junes by Julia Glass Kalimantaan by C. S. Godshalk Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War by Michael Graham Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy The Uncertainty of Everyday Life: 1915-1945 America by Harvey Green The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It by Stanley B. Greenberg Everyday Matters by Danny Gregory Slow River by Nicola Griffith Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Marthas Vineyard by Nora Ellen Groce & John W. M. Whiting Money: Who Has How Much and Why by Andrew Hacker The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Beyond Gumbo: Creole Fusion Food from the Atlantic Rim by Jessica Harris Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Hainberg Trying Neaira by Debra Hamel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes by Amanda Hesser Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner-Take-All Politics by Steven Hill Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand I Want That: How We All Become Shoppers by Thomas Hine The Experience of Place by Tony Hiss The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishigoru Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The Known World by Edward P. Jones Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Believe Violence by Gerard Jones & Lynn Ponton Appointment at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian by Wlliam B. Karesh When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles by Thomas Keneally Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Immortality by Milan Kundera The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff Mindfulness by Ellen J. Langer The Future of Ideas The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Monkey Wrench by Priom Levi (tr. William Weaver) Hackers by Steven Levy Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen Mastering the Techniques of Teaching by Joseph Lowman The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz Stolen Words by Thomas Mallon An Imaginary Life by David Malouf The Last Days: A Son's Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of a New South by Charles Marsh The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride Cradle to Cradle by McDonough and Braungart Atonement by Ian McEwan The End of Nature by Bill McKibben Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should Like, Care by John McWhorter Dark Harbor: Building House and Home on an Enchanted Island by Ved Mehta Talking to Monks in High Snow: An Asian-American Odyssey by Lydia Yuri Minatoya Light and Color in the Outdoors by Joseph Minnaert Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash by Sylvia Nasar I'll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist (American Indian Lives) by Carolyn Neithammer The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe by The writers at Nerve Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson Flickering Minds by Todd Oppenheimer The Impossible Bird by Patrick O'Leary Parliament of Horrors by P.J. O'Rourke Flickering Minds: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom & How Learning Can Be Saved by Todd Oppenheimer Peter's Choice by Joseph Orbi Einstein in Love: A Scientific Romance by Dennis Overbye Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy by James T. Patterson The Moviegoer by Walker Percy Running on Empty by Peter G. Peterson The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker Pillar of Sand by Sandra Postel The Future and its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Flim Flam: The Truth About Parapsychology, Unicorns and Other Delusions by James Randi The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin What's Right with Islam : A New Vision for Muslims and the West by Feisal Abdul Rauf The Persian Boy by Mary Renault Angles of Reflection: Logic and a Mother's Love by Joan L. Richards The End of Oil by Paul Roberts The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair by Sam Roberts The Undiscovered Paul Robeson by Paul Robeson, Jr. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Queen and Country: Operation Broken Ground by Greg Rucka, Steve Rolston (Illustrator) The Plot Against America by Philip Roth The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel A Primate's Memoir by Robert M. Sapolsky Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi Calculating God by Robert Sawyer Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstoncraft Shelley The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Unless by Carol Shields Dead Languages by David Shields The Radioactive Boy Scout by Ken Silverstein I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith A Horse of a Different Color by Jim Squires The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the 19th Century's Online Pioneers by Tom Standage The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television by Daniel Stashower Jesus Saves by Darcey Steinke Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Distraction by Bruce Sterling Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years by Bruce Sterling Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 by William Strauss & Neil Howe Accelerando by Charles Stross The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross The Death of Vishnu by Mani Suri Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Blankets by Craig Thompson Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America by Kim Todd, Claire Emery (Illustrator) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Copyrights and Copywrongs -- The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan Steel Beach by John Varley Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life by Geerat Vermeij Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Reef by Edith Wharton The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead White Like Me by Tim Wise Misconceptions; Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood by Naomi Wolf You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe Channel Zero by Brian Wood The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present by Howard Zinn |