Upper School Book Club

 

Meets in the St. Mark's Room, 7:30-9 p.m.  See Ms. Mailer for more details.

 

 

January 2009 (meeting Monday, Jan. 7)

 

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

 

 

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel answers the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples.  In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.

-- Books in Print

 

 

December 2008

 

Jonathan Livingston Seagull  by Richard Bach

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 2008  

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

 

 

 

 

October 2008

 

Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007-08

 

 

March 2008 - Absurdistan, by Gary Shteyngart

Compiled reviews from Powells.com

Read an excerpt

 

 

 

January 2008 - Blink by Malcolm Gladwell 

Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell

What is "Blink" About?

Blink - A Reading Guide

 

 

December 2008 - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle, by Jeanneatte Walls  

Life in ‘Glass Castle’ only made Walls stronger, Memoir by MSNBC.com's gossip columnist tells of life that was no fairy tale

Jeannette Walls Answers Your Questions: A Q + A With the Chronicler of New York's Power Elite

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls: A Reading Guide

 

 

October 2008 - God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens

 

 

September 2008 - Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky