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Books discussed at previous
InspireSeattle book club gatherings:
(Books are numbered according to the order in which they were read.)
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| 41) | 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown | | Simon Johnson & James Kwak |
| 40) | Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit | | Vandana Shiva |
| 39) | The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain | | George Lakoff |
| 38) | The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures | | Nicholas Wade |
| 37) | The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, Fairer Health Care | | T.R. Reid |
| 36) | The World Without Us | | Alan Weisman |
| 35) | The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men and a Republic in Peril | | Eugene Jarecki |
| 34) | Civilwarland in Bad Decline | | George Saunders |
| 33) | Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America | | Thomas L. Friedman |
| 32) | House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street | | William D. Cohan |
| 31) | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court | | Jeffrey Toobin |
| 30) | Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World | | Tracy Kidder |
| 29) | Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance | | Barack Obama |
| 28) | The Way Of The World: A Story Of Truth And Hope In An Age Of Extremism | | Ron Suskind |
| 27) | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | | Jared Diamond |
| 26) | Where Does The Money Go?: Your Guided Tour To The Federal Budget Crisis | | Scott Bittle & Jean Johnson |
| 25) | In Our Defense: The Bill Of Rights In Action | | Ellen Alderman & Caroline Kennedy |
| 24) | Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit*
*(Click here for a
synopsis by Dave Gamrath of The Story of B,
a sequel to Ishmael) | | Daniel Quinn |
| 23) | Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time | | Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin |
| 22) | The Conscience of a Liberal | | Paul Krugman |
| 21) | Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense | | David Cay Johnston |
| 20) | The Looming Tower | | Lawrence Wright |
| 19) | The Future of Life | | E.O. Wilson |
| 18) | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq | | Thomas E. Ricks |
| 17) | The Secret History of the American Empire | | John Perkins |
| 16) | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | | Michael Pollan |
| 15) | Happiness: Lessons from a New Science | | Richard Layard |
| 14) | Greed, Inc. | | Wade Rowland |
| 13) | The End of Faith*
*(Click here for a review by member Jim Scanlan) | | Sam Harris |
| 12) | The Republican War On Science | | Chris Mooney |
| 11) | American Theocracy | | Kevin Phillips |
| 10) | Small Wonder | | Barbara Kingsolver |
| 9) | Lies and the Lying Liars that Tell Them | | Al Franken |
| 8) | Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative | | David Brock |
| 7) | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | | John Perkins |
| 6) | Nickel and Dimed | | Barbara Ehreneich |
| 5) | Crimes Against Nature | | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. |
| 4) | Fast Food Nation | | Eric Schlosser |
| 3) | Worse Than Watergate | | John Dean |
| 2) | What's the Matter with Kansas? | | Thomas Frank |
| 1) | Don't think of an Elephant | | George Lakoff |
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