Voting List

title and author	description	proposed	rank	pg
Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte	Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?	kevin	11	337
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David S. Reynolds	insightful history of America during its bumptious adolescence	kevin	6	484
An End to Suffering: by Pankaj Mishra	he reflects on his travels and on his own past, Mishra ultimately reaches an enlightenment of his own by discovering the living meaning of the Buddha's teaching, in this "unusually discerning, beautifully written, and deeply affecting reflection on Buddhism	kevin	2	422
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard	book details an unnamed narrator's explorations near her home, and various contemplations on nature and life.	Marcella	9	304
Body of Work by Christine Montross	examination of the mysteries of the human body, and a remarkable look at our relationship with both the living and the dead	Kathy	3	304
109 East Palace : Robert Oppenheimer by Jennet Conant	see how, for all his flaws, he developed into an inspiring leader and motivated all those involved in the Los Alamos project	Kathy	10	448
Shadow Network by Anne Nelson	group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net.	Sharon	7	448
Woke, Inc. by Vivek Ramaswamy	The modern woke-industrial complex divides us as a people. By mixing morality with consumerism, America’s elites prey on our innermost insecurities about who we really are	Sharon	8	368
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari	explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life.	Marcella	4	455
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell	This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of Montainge's life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored	Marcella	5	523
Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America by Stephen L. Klineberg	Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents fascinating and groundbreaking research that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on an unprecedented thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes.	doug	1	336

The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson  

proposed by Doug

219 pages