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April – June 2014 Author Title
April Doris Kerns Godwin The Bully Pulpit
May Victoria Sweet God’s Hotel
June Elizabeth Kolbert 6th Extinction, an unnatural history
Sept. 2014-June 2015
Sept. Barbara Tuchman August 1914
Oct. No meeting
Nov. Margaret MacMillan Paris 1919
Dec. Geraldine Brooks Year of Wonders: A novel of the plague
Jan. Richard Harris Pompeii, the Novel
Febr. Kate Atkinson Case Histories
March Robert Whitaker The Mapmaker’s Wife
April Yelena Akhtiorskaya Panic in a Suitcase
May Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-first Century
June Steven Johnson How we got to now: Six innovations that made the modern world
Sept. 2015-June 2016
Sept. Kate Atkinson Life after Life
Oct. James Brown The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their epic quest of gold at the 1936 Olympics
Nov. Janet Soskice The Sisters of Sinai: How two lady adventurers discovered the hidden Gospels
Dec. Jamie Ford Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jan. Qais Akbar Omar A Fort of Nine Towers.  An Afghan family story
Febr. Mario Livio Brilliant Blunders.  From Darwin to Einstein
March David McCullough The Wright Brothers
April Oliver Sacks The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and other Clinical Tales
May Daniel E. Lieberman The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, health and disease
June Anthony Doerr All the Light we cannot see
Sept. 2016-June 2017
September Andy Weir The Martian
Oct. Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan: The Impact of the highly improbable
Nov. Ivan Doig Whistling Season
Dec. Louisa Thomas Louisa: The extraordinary Life of Louisa Adams
Jan. Michael Freyn Headlong
Febr. Erik Larson Dead Wake: the last Crossing of the Lusitania
March Anne Tyler Vinegar Girl
April J.D. Vance Hillbilly Elegy: A memoir of a family and culture in crisis
May Bill Bryson The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way
June Richard Condon The Manchurian Candidate
Sept. 2017-Dec. 2017
Sept. Simon Winchester The Professor and the Madman: A tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Oct. Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Numbers:  The hidden dreams and the untold story of the black mathematicians who helped win the space race
Nov. Atul Gawande Being Mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end
Dec. Bill Bryson One Summer: America 1927