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January 2012 The Potter's Field by Andrea Camillieri
Nov/Dec 2011 The Prize. The Epic Quest for Oil, Power & Money by Daniel Yergin
September 2011 The Mass. The Glory. The Mystery. The Tradition by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
September 2011 The Track of Sand by Andrea Camillieri
Sept/August 2011 Mystical Body.Mystical Voice. Encountering Christ in the Words of the Mass by Christopher Carstens and Douglas Martis
August 2011 The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camillieri
August 2011 Understanding the Revised Mass Texts by Father Paul Turner
July 2011 August Heat by Andrea Camillieri
June 2011 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
May/June 2011 Credo for Today. What Christians Believe by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI)
May 2011 Paper Moon by Andrea Camillieri
May 2011 The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri
April 2011 John XXIII. Pope of the Century by Peter Hebblethwaite
April 2011 Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri
March 2011 Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen
March 2011 The Smell of the Night by Andrea Camilleri
March 2011 Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
February 2011 Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri
February 2011 The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
February 2011 Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
January 2011 The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri
January 2011 The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
January 2011 The Snack Thief by Andrea Camilleri
December 2010 Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
December 2010 Finding Darwin's God. A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution by Kenneth R. Miller
Nov/Dec 2010 Gandhi & Chruchill. The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed and Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
November 2010 The Terra Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri
November 2010 For the Glory of God by Rodney Stark
September 2010 The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
September 2010 Street without Joy. The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Hall
August 2010 Your Inner Fish. A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
July 2010 The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
June 2010 The Ides of March by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
May/June 2010 The Rising Sun : The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 by John Toland
March 2010 Badass by Ben Thompson
February 2010 Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
January 2010 Where Eagles Dare by Alistair Maclean
December 2009 The Habsburgs by Andrew Wheatcroft
September 2009 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
September 2009 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer
August 2009 In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
August 2009 Lee. The Last Years by Charles Bracelen Flood
July 2009 Public Enemies. America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough
June 2009 Sacred Hoops. Spiritual Lessons from a Hardwood Warrier by Phil Jackson
May 2009 Called to Communion. Understanding the Church Today by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI)
April 2009 Shooting for the Moon. The Strange History of Spaceflight by Bob Berman
March 2009 Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J. Craughwell
March 2009 1917. Red Banner. White Mantle by Warren H. Carroll
February 2009 Presidential Leadership. Rating the Best and Worst in the White House edited by James Taranto and Leonard Leo
January 2009 Playing the Enemy. Nelson Mandela And The Game That Made A Nation by John Carlin
December 2008 All the Shah's Men. An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
December 2008 The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn. A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall III
November 2008 Islam. A Short History by Karen Armstrong
October 2008 Barn Burning Barn Building. Tales of a Political Life from LBJ to George W. Bush and Beyond by Ben Barnes
September 2008 The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
June 2008 The Victory of Reason. How Christianity led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success by Rodney Stark
May 2008 Rosalind Franklin and DNA by Anne Sayer
March 2008 My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas
February 2008 Marley and Me. Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
January 2008 The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. An Intimate Portait of Charles Darwin and the Making of his Theory of Evolution by David Quammen
November 2007 John Paul the Great. Remembering a Spiritual Father by Peggy Noonan
March 2007 Accidental Journey. A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of WWII by Mark Lynton
December 2006 Timeline by Michael Crichton
December 2006 Apocalypto a film by Mel Gibson
October 2006 Mother Theresa by Katheryn Spink
Summer 2006 Triumph. The Power and Glory of the Catholic Church. A 2000 Year History by H.W. Crocker
July 2006 The Ghosts of Tsavo by Philip Caputo and The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo by Lt.Col. J.H. Patterson
March 2006 The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
January 2006 His Excellency. George Washington by Joseph P. Ellis
November 2005 1776 by David McCullough
October 2005 The Savage Wars of Peace. Small Wars and the Rise of American Power by Max Boot
November 2005 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova


Follow this link to the Reading list from the Readable History Book Club 2003-2005
Follow this link to the Reading list from the Readable History Book Club 2006-2007