Just The Facts Previous Books Read

-2011-

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot – 6/22/2011
A Devil to Play by Jasper Rees – 7/13/2011
Twin: A Memoir by Allen Shawn – 8/24/2011
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick – 9/21/2011
The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry – 10/19/2011
Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo – 11/9/2011
The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore – 12/21/2011

-2012-

A Secret Gift by Ted Gup – 1/18/2012
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen – 2/15/2012
Stiff by Mary Roach – 3/21/2012
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - 4/18/2012
The Discovery of Jeanne Baret by Glynis Ridley - 5/23/2012
Life, on the Line by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas -- 6/20/2012
Have You Found Her by Janice Erlbaum -- 7/18/2012
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson - 8/22/2012
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller - 9/19/2012
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand -- 10/17/2012
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos by Dava Sobel -- 11/21/2012
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach -- 12/12/2012

-2013-

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie -- 1/23/2013
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David Margolick - 2/20/2013
That Used to Be Us by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum - 3/13/2013
Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn - 4/17/2013
A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi - 5/22/2013
Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman - 6/19/2013
Swim by Lynn Sherr - 7/24/2013
Extra Virginity: The sublime and scandalous world of olive oil by Tom Mueller - 8/21/2013
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - 9/18/2013
God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet - 10/23/2013
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh - 11/13/2013

-2014-

Visiting Tom: A Man, A Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace by Michael Perry - 1/22/2014
The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby - 2/12/2014
The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean by Philip Caputo (The Big Read selection for 2014) - 3/5/2014
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild -- 4/23/2014
Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed - 5/21/2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- 6/18/2014
The Sibling Effect by Jeffrey Kluger - 7/23/2014
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach - 8/20/14
Heroes in the Night by Tea Krulos - 9/17/14
After visiting friends: a son's story by Michael Hainey - 10/22/14
Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain - 11/12/14
The World's Strongest Librarian: a memoir of Tourette's, faith, strength and the power of family by Josh Hanargarne 12/10/14

-2015-

Dogtripping by David Rosenfelt - 1/21/15
The Forger's Spell: a true story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the greatest art hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick 2/18/15
Walden on wheels: on the Open Road from Debt to Freedom by Ken Ilgunas 3/18/15
Cooked: a natural history of transformation by Michael Pollan 4/15/15
Hedy's Folly: the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the most beautiful woman in the world by Richard Rhodes 5/20/15
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 6/17/15
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt 7/15/15
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert 8/19/15
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan 9/16/15
Ghost Boy: The miraculous escape of a misdiagnosed boy trapped in his own body by Martin Pistorius 10/28/15
Coming clean: a memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller 11/18/15
I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai 12/16/15

-2016-

Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 1/20/16
The sober truth: debunking the bad science behind 12-step programs and the rehab industry by Lance and Zachary Dodes 2/17/16
Leaving before the rains come by Alexandra Fuller 3/16/16
Without you, there is no us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim 4/20/16
Pay any price: greed, power and Endless War by James Risen 5/18/16
Even this I get to experience by Norman Lear 6/15/16
Tattoos on the heart: the power of boundless compassion by Gregory Boyle 7/20/16
What the dog saw and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell 8/17/16
Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 9/21/16
So you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson 10/19/16
How to be a Victorian: a dawn-to-dusk guide to Victorian life by Ruth Goodman 11/16/16

-2017-

Deep Down Dark: the untold stories of 33 men buried in a Chilean mine, and the miracle that set them free by Hector Tobar 1/18/17
The Road to Character by David Brooks 2/15/17
Furiously happy: a funny book about horrible things by Jenny Lawson 3/15/17
Deep South: four seasons on back roads by Paul Theroux 4/19/17
The Residence: inside the private world of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower 5/17/17
Down the rabbit hole: curious adventures and cautionary tales of a former Playboy bunny by Holly Madison 6/21/17
Ghost Ship: the mysterious true story of the Mary Celeste and her missing crew by Brian Hicks 7/19/17
Grunt: The curious science of humans at war by Mary Roach 8/16/17
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh 9/20/17
Sisters in law: how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world by Linda Hirshman 10/18/17
Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly 11/15/17
The Oregon trail: a new American journey by Rinker Buck 12/13/17

-2018-

Nagasaki: life after nuclear war by Susan Southard 1/17/18
In the darkroom by Susan Faludi 2/21/18
A sting in the tale by Dave Goulson 3/21/18
Empire of sin: a story of sex, jazz, murder and the battle for modern New Orleans by Gary Krist 4/18/18
The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II by Denise Kiernan 5/16/18
Can't we talk about something more pleasant by Roz Chast 6/20/18
Midnight in broad daylight: a Japanese American family caught between two worlds by Pamela Rotner Sakamoto 7/18/18
Proust and the squid: the story and science of the reading brain by Maryanne Wolf 8/15/18
Smoke gets in your eyes: and other lessons from the crematory by Caitlin Doughty 9/19/18
The Witches: suspicion, betrayal and hysteria in 1692 Salem by Stacy Schiff 10/17/18
West with the Night by Beryl Markham 11/14/18
Destiny of the Republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president by Candice Millard 12/19/18

-2019-

The inheritance: a family on the front lines in the battle against Alzheimer's disease by Niki Kapsambelis 1/16/19
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari 2/20/19
The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin 3/20/19
Rez life: an Indian's journey through reservation life by David Treuer 4/17/19
Eleanor and Hick: the love affair that shaped a first lady by Susan Quinn 5/15/19
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann 6/19/19
The end of your life book club by Will Schwalbe 7/17/19
Evicted: poverty and profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 8/21/19
Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson 9/18/19
The radium girls: the dark story of America's shining women by Kate Moore 10/16/19
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover 11/20/19
Word by word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries By Kory Stamper 12/18/19

-2020-

The day the world came to town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede 1/15/20
She has her mother's laugh: The Powers, perversions, and Potential of heredity by Carl Zimmer 2/19/20
Give people money: how a universal basic income would end poverty, revolutionize work, and remake the world by Annie Lowrey 8/19/20 via Zoom
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara 9/16/20 via Zoom
Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst by Robert M. Sapolsky 10/21/20 via Zoom
Daring to drive: a Saudi woman's awakening by Manal Al-sharif 11/18/20 via Zoom
On writing: a memoir of the craft by Stephen King. 12/16/20 via Zoom

-2021-

Don't sleep, there are snakes by Daniel Everett. 1/20/21 via Zoom
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers. 2/17/21 via Zoom
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarland. 3/17/21 via Zoom
Prairie fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser and Christina Moore. 4/21/21 via Zoom
Finding my voice: when the perfect plan crumbles, the adventure begins by Valerie Jarrett. 5/19/21 via Zoom
How to do nothing: resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. 6/16/21 via Zoom
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. 7/21/21 via Zoom
The reality bubble: how science reveals the hidden truths that shape our world by Ziya Tong. 8/18/21 in person!
Midnight in Chernobyl: the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster by Adam Higginbotham. 9/15/21
A season with the witch: the magic and mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts by J.W. Ocker. 10/20/21
All Creatures Great and Small by James Harriot 12/15/21

-2022-

Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; 1/19/22
Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche; 2/16/22
The address book by Deirdre Mask; 3/16/22
The geography of bliss by Eric Weiner; 4/20/22
Tomboy by Lisa Selin Davis; 5/18/22
Priest Daddy by Patricia Lockwood; 6/15/22
Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald; 7/20/22
Hidden Valley Road: inside the mind of an American family by Robert Kloker; 8/17/22
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson; 9/21/22
The End of Everything (astrophysically speaking) by Katie Mack; 10/19/22
Smallest lights in the universe: a memoir by Sara Seager; 11/16/22
Defender: how a legendary black newspaper changed America: from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama by Ethan Michaeli; 12/14/22

-2023-

Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World by Olga Khazan; 1/18/23
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger; 2/15/23
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty by Simon Baron-Cohen; 3/15/23
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach; 4/19/23
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James S. Shapiro; 5/17/23
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage by Stephen Coontz; 6/21/23
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman; 7/19/23
Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson; 8/16/23
London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency by Kate MacDougall; 9/20/23
Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli; 10/18/23
One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten; 11/15/23
Just Checking: Scenes from the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive by Emily Colas; 12/20/23

-2024-

Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books by Jess Mchugh; 1/24
Queen of our Times: the Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman; 2/24
Yearbook by Seth Rogan; 3/24
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein; 4/24
Good Talk: a memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob; 5/24
The Appalachian Trail: a Biography by Philip D’anieri; 6/24
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson; 7/24
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony Amore and Tom Mashberg; 8/24
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean; 9/24
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver; 10/24
The Man who Loved Books Too Much… by Allison Hoover Bartlett; 11/24
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechde; 12/24