Public Lofts Books Club

Active from Apr. 2021 to Oct. 2022. I no longer actively run the book club, but below is short list of what we read!

Previous Books

• August 2022 - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• July 2022 - Invisible by Stephen L. Carter
• April 2022 - June 2022 - All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
• March 2022 - Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper
• February 2022 - The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• January 2022 - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• December 2021 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• November 2021 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• October 2021 - The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff
• September 2021 - The Dutch House by Anne Patchett
• August 2021 - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• July 2021 - The Guest List, by Lucy Foley
• June 2021 - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translation by Mirra Ginsburg
• May 2021 - Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
• April 2021 - The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Remember your rules for reading.

Reading List

The one’s that got away. All the books we’ve thought about reading at some point, but haven’t gotten to (yet). Good for inspiration.

2022 ↓

• Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

• Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbu

• Caribbean by James A. Michener

• Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters

• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

• In Five Years by Rebeccas Serle

• Once I was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

• Pure Narco by Luis Navia and Jesse Fink

• Rise by Siya Kolisi

• Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

• The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

• The Hidden Life of Dogs by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

• The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Mitch Albom

• Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson

• Untamed by Glenn Doyle

• Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi

• Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

2021 ↓

• Born a Crime, Trevor Noah

• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow

• Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress

• Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Dune by Frank Herbert

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

• Flowers for Algernon

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov

• Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 

• Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)

• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro

• More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

• My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by Kate Elizabeth Russell

• Once I was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

• Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

• Shadows in the Vineyard by Maximillian Potter

• Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson

• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love

• Stubborn Attachments - A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals by Tyler Cowen

• The 48 Laws of Power

• The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish

• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

• The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power

• The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai

• The House of Gucci by Sara Gay Forden

• The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Midnight Library, Matt Haig

• The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara

• The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe

• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

• The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

• The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel by Zeyn Joukhadar

• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• Where We Come From: A novel by Oscar Cásares

• White Like Me, Tim Wise

• Wool, by Hugh Howey