Central Library History Book Club

The Central Library History Book Club meets the fourth Thursday of the month, at 2:00 p.m. at Central Library [1].

Please call 651-266-7000, ext. 5 for more information.

Central Library book clubs - dates, times, and titles [2].

2013 Titles

• Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History [3] by Antonio J. Mendez
• Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West [4] by Hampton Sides
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey [5] by Candace Millard
• Manhunt: The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer [6] by James L. Swanson
• The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl [7] by Timothy Egan
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War [8] by Nathaniel Philbrick

2012 Titles

• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America [9] by Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn [10] by Nathaniel Philbrick
• The First Tycoon: the Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt [11] by T.J. Stiles
• The Ascent of Money [12] by Niall Ferguson
• Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend [13] by Susan Orlean
• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President [14] by Candice Illard
• Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA [15] by Tim Weiner
• The Killer Angels [16] by Michael Shaara
• Let Them Eat Grass: the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota [17] by John Koblas
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman [18] by Robert Massie
• Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography [19] by Susan Cheever
• Unbroken [20] by Laura Hillenbrand

2011 Titles

• North Country: The Making of Minnesota [21] by Mary Lethert Wingerd
• Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season [22] by Jonathan Eig
• The Murder of King Tut: the Plot to Kill the Child King [23] by James Patterson and Martin Dugard
• Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Alliance [24] by Ben Macintyre
• Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul [25] by Mary Lethert Wingerd
• The King's Speech [26] by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
• Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief [27] by James M. McPherson
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation [28] by Joseph J. Ellis
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare [29] by Stephen Greenblatt
• The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York [30] by Deborah Blum
• Christmas in Minnesota [31] by Marilyn Ziebarth and Brian Horrigan

2010 Titles

• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America [32] by Douglas Brinkley
• Hiding in the Open [33] by Sabina Zimering
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World [34] by Jack Weatherford
• American Passage: The History of Ellis Island [35] by Vincent J. Cannato
• Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 [36] by Stephen Ambrose
• I Go To America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson [37] by Joy K. Lintelman
• The Guns of August [38] by Barbara Tuchman
• The Guthrie Theater: Images, History, and Inside Stories [39] by Peg Guilfoyle
• The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History [40] by John M. Barry
• Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition [41] by David Okrent

2009 Titles

• Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln [42] by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• 1776 [43] by David McCullogh
• Guns, Germs, and Steel [44] by Jared Diamond
• The World is Flat : a Brief History of the Twenty-First Century [45] by Thomas L. Friedman
• American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House [46] by Jon Meacham
• Minnesota on the Map: a Historical Atlas [47] by David Lanegran
• D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II [48] by Stephen Ambrose
• A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based On Her Diary, 1785-1812 [49] by Laurel Ulrich
• The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two [50] by Studs Terkel
• North Star Country [51] by Meridel LeSueur
• Devil in the White City [52] by Erik Larson
• The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food [53] edited and illustrated by Mark Kurlansky