Current History Book Club
The Current History Book Club meets the last Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Main Library. For copies of the titles, please contact Tim Dirks at tdirks@cityoffargo.com.
| January 25, 2011 |
The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor |
| February 22, 2011 |
1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold Europe by Mary Sarotte |
| March 29, 2011 |
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson |
| April 26, 2011 |
Salvador by Joan Didion |
| May 31, 2011 |
The Boys of '98 by Dale L. Walker |
| September 27, 2011 |
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts |
| October 26, 2011 |
Terror Incorporated by Loretta Napoleoni |
| November 30, 2011 |
Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia by Marshall I. Goldman |
| January 31, 2012 |
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
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| February 28, 2012 |
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson |
| March 27, 2012 |
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop |
| April 24, 2012 |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson |
| May 29, 2012 |
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent |
| September 25, 2012 |
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson |
| October 30, 2012 |
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America by Colin Woodard |
| November 27, 2012 |
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis |