MSOE Faculty and Staff Book Club Selections
- Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St John Mandel, discussed on 2024-12-TBD.
- Native American Heritage Month Book TBD, 2024-11-TBD
- The Invention of Morel / Morel’s Invention, by Adolfo Bioy Casares, discussed on 2024-10-07.
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison, discussed on 2024-09-04.
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan, discussed on 2024-07-08.
- The Thirty Names of Night: A Novel, by Zeyn Joukhadar, discussed on 2024-06-12.
- The Loneliest Americans, by Jay Caspian Kang, discussed on 2024-05-16.
- The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz, discussed on 2024-04-25.
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall, discussed on 2024-03-27.
- Looking for Lorraine, by Imani Perry, discussed on 2024-02-26.
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, discussed on 2024-01-29.
- The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China, by James M Zimmerman, discussed on 2023-12-13.
- There There, by Tommy Orange, discussed on 2023-11-20.
- Khirbet Khizeh, by S. Yizhar, discussed on 2023-10-09.
- Things we lost in the fire. (Or: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed), by Mariana Enriquez, discussed on 2023-09-25.
- The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World, by David K. Randall, discussed on 2023-08-16.
- Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, discussed on 2023-07-17.
- Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, by James Kirchick, discussed on 2023-06-12.
- Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner, discussed on 2023-05-22.
- A Beginner’s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious, by Roya Hakakian, discussed on 2023-04-24.
- Girlhood, by Melissa Febos, discussed on 2023-03-06.
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, discussed on 2023-02-20.
- The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science, by Sam Kean, discussed on 2023-01-31.
- Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, discussed on 2022-12-14.
- Denial, by Jon Raymond, discussed on 2022-11-16.
- The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt, discussed on 2022-10-24.
- Lincoln: A Novel, by Gore Vidal, discussed on 2022-09-28.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M. Pirsig, discussed on 2022-08-22.
- The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone, discussed on 2022-07-19.
- Consuming the Caribbean. From Arawaks to Zombies., by Mimi Sheller, discussed on 2022-06-06.
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong, discussed on 2022-05-11.
- How not to be wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg, discussed on 2022-04-25.
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez, discussed on 2022-03-16.
- Once We Were Brothers, by Ronald Balson, discussed on 2022-02-08.
- Astoria, by Peter Stark, discussed on 2022-01-17.
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, discussed on 2021-12-20.
- The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America, by Anthony Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, and Jeff Strohl, discussed on 2021-11-08.
- Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell, discussed on 2021-10-11.
- The Premonition, by Michael Lewis, discussed on 2021-09-13.
- The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, discussed on 2021-08-16.
- The United States of War, Volume 48: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State, by David Vine, discussed on 2021-07-12.
- Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East, by Kim Ghattas, discussed on 2021-06-21.
- A Curse upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic world, by Kay Wright Lewis, discussed on 2021-05-24.
- Sula, by Toni Morrison, discussed on 2021-04-20.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Jane Sherron de Hart, discussed on 2021-03-24.
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson, discussed on 2021-02-24.
- Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation, by Candace Owens, discussed on 2021-01-20.
- Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson, discussed on 2020-12-21.
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond, discussed on 2020-11-24.
- Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, by Ajay Agrawal, discussed on 2020-10-20.
- White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo, discussed on 2020-09-29.
- The End of October, by Lawrence Wright, discussed on 2020-08-25.
- Educated in Whiteness. Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools, by Angelina E. Castagno, discussed on 2020-07-21.
- Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, by Katherine Eban, discussed on 2020-06-16.
- An Enchantress of Numbers: A Novel of Ada Lovelace, by Jennifer Chiaverini, discussed on 2020-05-19.
- Three Laws Lethal, by David Walton, discussed on 2020-04-28.
- Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - And The World, by Rachel Swaby, discussed on 2020-03-10.
- Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover, discussed on 2020-02-10.
- Machines Like Me, by Ian McEwan, discussed on 2020-01-06.
- The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, by by Bina Venkataraman, discussed on 2019-12-03.
- What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics, by Adam Becker, Greg Tremblay, et al., discussed on 2019-10-21.
- Recursion: A Novel, by Blake Crouch, discussed on 2019-09-16.
- Circe, by Madeline Miller, discussed on 2019-05-13.
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks, discussed on 2019-03-27.
- The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, by David Quammen, discussed on 2019-01-28.
- Small Teaching, by James M. Lang, discussed on 2018-11-28.
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time), by Claude M. Steele, discussed on 2018-09-10.
- Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning, by José Antonio Bowen, discussed on 2018-05-31.
- iGen, by Jean M. Twenge, discussed on 2018-04-24.
- Bored and Brilliant: How spacing out can unlock your most productive and creative self, by Manoush Zomorodi, discussed on 2018-03-06.
- Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story, by Angela Saini, discussed on 2018-01-18.
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan, discussed on 2017-12-07.
- Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong, by Andrew Shtulman, discussed on 2017-10-26.
- The Way of Mindful Education: Cultivating Well-Being in Teachers and Students, by Daniel Rechtschaffen, discussed on 2017-09-13.
- How to Bake Pi, by Eugenia Cheng, discussed on 2017-05-01.
- Real Talk for Real Teachers: Advice for Teachers from Rookies to Veterans: “No Retreat, No Surrender!”, by Rafe Esquith, discussed on 2017-03-14.
- The Dream Chip, by William Thien, discussed on 2017-02-07.
- Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away, by Rebecca Goldstein, discussed on 2016-12-05.
- Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation, by Vicki Abeles, discussed on 2016-10-18.
- Steal Across the Sky, by Nancy Kress, discussed on 2016-04-26.
- Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, by Ted Koppel, discussed on 2016-03-14.
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamondis & Steven Kotler, discussed on 2016-01-29.
- College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, by Andrew Delbanco, discussed on 2015-12-14.
- Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, discussed on 2015-10-15.
- A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), by Barbara Oakley, discussed on 2015-05-07.
- The New Science of Learning, by Terry Doyle and Todd Zakrajsek, discussed on 2015-03-12.
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, discussed on 2014-12-16.
- The Circle, by Dave Eggers, discussed on 2014-11-06.
- What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain, discussed on 2014-10-07.
- Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s Public Schools, by Diane Ravitch, discussed on 2014-04-28.
- How Children Succeed, by Paul Tough, discussed on 2014-03-25.
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching, by Susan Ambrose et al., discussed on 2014-02-11.
- Player Piano, by Kurt Vonnegut, discussed on 2014-01-17.
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain, discussed on 2013-11-07.
- Creating Innovators, by Tony Wagner, discussed on 2013-10-01.