The Literary Society Schedule
The Literary Society Schedule| Date | Title | Author | Host | Next Book |
| July 6, 2009 | Damned Lie and Statistics | Joel Best | Jackie | Julia |
| June 1, 2009 | The Shock Doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism | Naomi Klein | Christy | Jim |
| May 4, 2009 | The Black Swan: the impact of the highly improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Jackie | Jackie |
| April 6, 2009 | Travels with Herodotus | Ryszard Kapuscinski | Christy | Ellen |
| March 2, 2009 | The thing about life is that one day you'll be dead | David Shields | Charlie | Christy |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Slapstick | Kurt Vonnegut | Christy | Charlie |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Consider the lobster and other essays | David Foster Wallace | Jim | Julia |
| Dec. 1, 2008 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer | Jackie | Jim |
| Oct. 6, 2008 | How to talk about books you haven't read | Pierre Bayard | Ellen (Julia) | Jackie |
| Sept 8, 2008 | The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more | Chris Anderson | Charlie | Ellen |
| August 4, 2008 | Leopard | Giuseppe Di Lampedusa | Julia | Dave |
| July 6, 2008 | Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See | Robert Kurson | Christy | Charlie |
| June 2, 2008 | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber | Jim | Julia |
| May 5, 2008 | I was Vermeer: the Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger | Frank Wynne | Jackie | Christy |
| April 14, 2008 | Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | Dave | Jim |
| Mar. 3, 2008 | Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence | Geoff Dyer | Ellen | Jackie |
| February 4, 2008 | Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution | Alma Guillermoprieto | Christy | Ellen |
January 7, 2008 | The Places In Between | Rory Stewart | Julia | Dave |
| Dec. 3, 2007 | Social intelligence : the new science of human relationships | Daniel Goleman | Charlie | Christy |
| Nov. 5, 2007 | Books about Savonarola | various | Jim | Charlie |
| Oct. 1, 2007 | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | Jackie | Julia |
| Sept. 10, 2007 | Asiatics | Frederic Prokosch | Ellen (at Julia's) | Jim |
| Aug 6 , 2007 | Absurdistan | Gary Shteyngart | Dave | Jackie |
| June 4, 2007 | Omnivore's Dilemma | Michael Pollan | Christy | Ellen |
| May 7, 2007 | War is a force that gives us meaning | Chris Hedges | Charlie | Dave |
| Apr. 9, 2007 | Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China | John Pomfret | Julia | Christy |
| Mar. 5, 2007 | Ruins and Rivals | James Snead | Jim | Charlie |
| Feb. 5, 2007 | Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an african childhood | Alexandra Fuller | Jackie | Julia |
| Jan. 2, 2007 | A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe | Jack | Jim |
| Dec. 4, 2006 | Perfect Mile | Neal Bascomb | Dave | Jackie |
| Nov. 6, 2006 | Disgrace | John M. Coetzee | Ellen at Julia's house | Jack |
| Oct. 9, 2006 | Intuition | Allegra Goodman | Christy | Dave |
| Sept. 4, 2006 | The Year of Magical Thinking | Joan Didion | Charlie | Ellen |
| August 7, 2006 | Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection or Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World | John Man Jack Weatherford | Julia | Christy |
| July 10, 2006 | Absalom, Absalom | William Faulkner | Jim | Charlie |
| June 5, 2006 | Don't think of an elephant! : know your values and frame the debate : the essential guide for progressives | George Lakoff | Jackie | Julia |
| May 1, 2006 | The Crying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | Jack | Jim |
| April 10, 2006 | How Soccer Explains the World : An Unlikely Theory of Globalization | Franklin Foer | Dave | Jackie |
| Mar. 6, 2005 | An End to Suffering : The Buddha in the World | Pankaj Mishra | Christy | Jack |
| Feb. 6, 2005 | Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation | Jeff Chang | Charlie | Dave |
| Jan. 17, 2005 | Bookseller of Kabul | Asne Seierstad | Julia | Christy |
| Dec. 5, 2005 | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | Jim | Charlie |
| Nov. 7, 2005 | The Life of Pi | Yann Martel | Jackie | Julia |
| Oct. 10, 2005 | The death and life of great American cities | Jane Jacobs | Jack | Jim |
| Sept. 12, 2005 | Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream | H.G. Bissinger | Dave | Jackie |
| August 8, 2005 | Fashionable Nonsense: postmodern intellectuals abuse of science | Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont | Charlie | Jack |
| July 11, 2005 | The plot against America: A novel | Philip Roth | Christy | Dave |
| May 2, 2005 | Faith, madness, and spontaneous combustion | Gerald N. Callahan | Julia | Christy |
| April 4, 2005 | Alternatives to economic globalization | John Cavanaugh | Jim | Charlie |
| March 7, 2005 | How we die : reflections on life's final chapter | Sherwin B. Nuland | Charlie | Julia |
| Feb. 7, 2005 | The Confessions of Nat
Turner William Styron's "Nat Turner": Ten Black Writers Respond | William Styron John Henrik Clarke | Jack | Jim |
| Jan. 3, 2005 | The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College | Jacques Steinberg | Dave | Jackie |
| Dec. 6, 2004 | Blindness | Jose Saramago | Christy | Jack |
| Nov. 8, 2004 | Much depends on dinner : the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos, of an ordinary meal | Margaret Visser | Jackie | Dave |
| Oct. 4, 2004 | The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature | Steven Pinker | Julia | Christy |
| Sept. 6, 2004 | Globalization and its discontents | Joseph E. Stiglitz | Jim | Charlie |
| August 2, 2004 | Snow Leopard | Peter Matthiessen | Jack | Julia |
| June 14, 2004 | Fire in the lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam | Frances FitzGerald | Jackie | Jim |
| May 3, 2004 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Dave | Jackie |
| April 5, 2004 | Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse | Christy | Jack |
| March 1, 2004 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: evolution and the meanings of life | Daniel C. Dennett | Charlie | Dave |
| Feb. 2, 2004 | Laxdaela Saga | Author unknown | Jim | Christy |
| Jan. 5, 2004 | Heisenberg's War | Thomas Powers | Julia | Charlie |
| Dec. 8, 2003 | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | Jim | Jim |
| Nov. 3, 2003 | An unexpected light : travels in Afghanistan | Jason Elliot | Jackie | Julia |
| Sept. 8, 2003 | In cold blood | Truman Capote | Jack | Group |
| August 4, 2003 | Media Arts AAA (readings on Cold War, Containment, etc.) Password is readaaa. | Kennan, Kissinger, Friedman, etc. | Dave | Jackie |
| July 7, 2003 | You just don't understand : women and men in conversation | Deborah Tannen | Charlie | Jack |
| June 2, 2003 | Prey: Novel | Michael Crichton | Christy | Dave |
| May 12, 2003 |
Civilization and It's Discontents Future of an Illusion | Sigmund Freud | Jim | Charlie |
| April 7, 2003 | Animal Liberation | Peter Singer | Jackie | Christy |
| March 3, 2003 | The tipping point : how little things can make a big difference | Malcolm Gladwell | Rebecca | Jim |
| Feb. 3, 2003 | Dream of Scipio | Iain Pears | Charlie | Jackie |
| Dec. 9, 2002 | Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | Jim | Rebecca |
| Nov. 4, 2002 | Anatomy of a miracle : the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa | Patti Waldmeir | Dave | Julia |
| Oct. 7, 2002 | Emergence : the connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software | Stephen Johnson | Christy | Jack |
| Sept. 9, 2002 | Why elephants have big ears : understanding patterns of life on earth | Chris Lavers | Jackie | Dave |
| August 12, 2002 | Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich | Charlie | Charlie |
| July 8, 2002 | Beyond good and evil : prelude to a philosophy of the future | Friedrich Nietzsche | Rebecca | Christy |
| June 3, 2002 | The Beauty of the Beastly : New Views on the Nature of Life | Natalie Angier | Jack | None |
| May 6, 2002 | The substance of civilization : materials and human history from the stone age to the age of silicon | Stephen Sass | Julia | Jim |
| April 8, 2002 | Populuxe | Thomas Hine | Jackie | Jackie |
| March 4, 2002 | A people's history of the United States (second half) | Howard Zinn | Jim | Julia |
| Feb. 4, 2002 | A people's history of the United States (first half) | Howard Zinn | Christy | Jack |
| Jan. 7, 2002 | The polar bear strategy : reflections on risk in modern life | John F. Ross | Rebecca | Jack |
| Dec. 3, 2001 | Resurrection : the struggle for a new Russia | David Remnick | Dave | Rebecca |
| Nov. 5, 2001 | Psychology of Everyday Things | Donald Norman | Julia | none |
| Oct. 1, 2001 | The Money and the Power: the Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America | Sally Denton, Roger Morris | Charlie | Dave |
| Sept. 10, 2001 | Bible (Genesis, Deuteronomy 18-25, Jeremiah 23-52, Mark, Romans, ICorinthians, optional Exodus, Job, Revelations) | Lots of dead guys | Christy | Charlie |
| August 6, 2001 | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | Amanda Foreman | Jim | Christy |
| July 2, 2001 | The People of Nowhere: The Palestinian Vision of Home | Danny Rubinstein | Dave's | Jim |
| June 11, 2001 | The Middle East : a brief history of the last 2,000 years | Bernard Lewis | Jim's | Julia |
| May 7, 2001 | Making Movies | Sidney Lumet | Dave | Jack |
| April 1, 2001 | Life the Movie : How Entertainment Conquered Reality | Neal Gabler | Julia | Jack |
| Feb. 25, 2001 | Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics | Rebecca Goldstein | Jack | Dave |
| Feb. 4, 2001 | Woman: An Intimate Geography | Natalie Angier | Charlie | None |
| Jan. 8, 2001 | Cadillac Desert | Marc Reisner | Julia | Charlie |
| Dec. 4, 2000 | West with the night | Beryl Markham | Christy | None |
| Nov. 6, 2000 | The Structure of scientific revolutions | Thomas Kuhn | Charlie | Christy |
| Oct. 2, 2000 | Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies | Jared Diamond | Julia | None |
| Sept. 4, 2000 | A history of private life | Philippe Aries and Georges Duby | Christy | Jackie |
| August 7, 2000 | If on a winter's night a traveler | Italo Calvino | Mark | Jim |
| July 1, 2000 | King Leopold's Ghost | Adam Hochschild | Jack | Julia |
| June 12, 2000 | The Nudist on the Late Shift | Po Bronson | Jackie | Jack |
| May 1, 2000 | Sexual Brain
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat | Simon Levay Oliver Sacks | Charlie | Dave |
| April 3, 2000 | End of Nature | Bill McKibben | Charlie | Charlie |
| March 6, 2000 | Good to eat :riddles of food and culture | Marvin Harris | Christy | Christy |
| Feb. 7, 2000 | Don Quixote | Cervantes | Julia | Jackie |
| Dec. 6, 1999 | Mara and Dann: an adventure | Doris Lessing | Christy | Mark |
| Nov. 1, 1999 | The History of Reading | Alberto Manguel | Charlie | Jim |
| Oct. 4, 1999 | The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century | Robert D. Kaplan | Christy | Julia |
| August 31, 1999 | Reality isn't what it used to be: theatrical politics, ready- to-wear religion, global myths, primitive chic, and other wonders of the postmodern world | Walter Truett Anderson | Jackie | Jack |
| August 2, 1999 | The Great Human Diasporas : The History of Diversity and Evolution | Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza | Jack | Dave |
| July 7, 1999 | Lives of a Cell | Lewis Thomas | Julia | Charlie |
| June 3, 1999 | Days of
Obligation : An
Argument With My Mexican Father Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez | Richard Rodriguez | Mark | Christy |
| May 3, 1999 | Time's Arrow | Martin Amis | Christy | Jackie |
| April 5, 1999 | Mezzanine Bridget Jones's Diary | Nicolson Baker Helen Fielding | Charlie | Mark |
| March 1, 1999 | Civil Action | Jonathan Haar | Jackie | Jim |
| Feb. 1, 1999 | Assembling California | John McPhee | Julia | Chas/Chris |
| Jan. 4, 1999 | No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo | Redmond O'Hanlon | Christy | Julia |
| Dec. 7, 1998 | Sophie's World | Jostein Gaarder | Charlie | Jack |
| Nov. 9, 1998 | The Mother
Tongue:
English & How It Got That Way | Bill Bryson | Julia | Dave |