The Central Library History Book Club meets the fourth Thursday of the month, at 2:00 p.m. at Central Library.
Please call 651-266-7000, ext. 5 for more information.
Central Library book clubs - dates, times, and titles.
2013 Titles
- Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History by Antonio J. Mendez
- Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West by Hampton Sides
- The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candace Millard
- Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
- The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
- Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
2012 Titles
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
- The First Tycoon: the Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
- The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
- Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
- Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice Illard
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- Let Them Eat Grass: the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota by John Koblas
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie
- Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography by Susan Cheever
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
2011 Titles
- North Country: The Making of Minnesota by Mary Lethert Wingerd
- Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season by Jonathan Eig
- The Murder of King Tut: the Plot to Kill the Child King by James Patterson and Martin Dugard
- Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Alliance by Ben Macintyre
- Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul by Mary Lethert Wingerd
- The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
- Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
- Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
- The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
- Christmas in Minnesota by Marilyn Ziebarth and Brian Horrigan
2010 Titles
- The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
- Hiding in the Open by Sabina Zimering
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- American Passage: The History of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato
- Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 by Stephen Ambrose
- I Go To America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson by Joy K. Lintelman
- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
- The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories by Peg Guilfoyle
- The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry
- Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by David Okrent
2009 Titles
- Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 1776 by David McCullogh
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- The World is Flat : a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham
- Minnesota on the Map: a Historical Atlas by David Lanegran
- D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen Ambrose
- A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based On Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Ulrich
- The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
- North Star Country by Meridel LeSueur
- Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
- The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food edited and illustrated by Mark Kurlansky
