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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman |
Monday, March 19, 8:00 PM at Lon's house |
The Noodleman Book Club is a small, by-invitation-only reading group in south Minneapolis.
We're a bunch of guys who like to get together over beers and popcorn and talk about stuff.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel KahnemanMonday, March 19, 8:00 PM
at Lon's house
| Finding Books | ||
Libraries |
Local Bookstores
Birchbark Books Search Services |
Downloadable Books Used & Out-of-Print Books |
2012 | ||
| The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer | Tom's, Jan 16 | |
2011 | ||
| The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker | Barry's, Nov 7 | |
| American Gods, by Neil Gaiman | Jerry's, Sep 14 | |
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Being Wrong, by Kathryn Schulz Adventures in the Margin of Error | Buddy's, July 20 | |
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The Great Transformation, by Karen Armstrong The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions | David's, June 6 | |
| True Grit, by Charles Portis | Joe's, Apr 6 | |
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Neuromancer, by William Gibson and Switch, by Chip Heath & Dan Heath How to Change Things When Change is Hard | Steve's, Feb 21 | |
2010 | ||
| The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson | Lon's, Dec 14 | |
| Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen | Paul's, Nov 9 | |
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A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Jerry's, Sep 21 | |
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The Age of Anxiety, by Haynes Johnson McCarthyism to Terrorism | Tom's, Aug 24 | |
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Tinkers, by Paul Harding | Barry's, July 7 | |
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The Big Short, by Michael Lewis Inside the Doomsday Machine | Buddy's, June 8 | |
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Legends of the Chelsea Hotel, by Ed Hamilton and Kiss Me Deadly, by Mickey Spillane | David's, May 5 | |
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American Lion, by Jon Meacham Andrew Jackson in the White House | Mark F's, Apr 5 | |
| The White Tiger, by Arayind Adiga | Steve's, Feb 15 | |
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Bonk, by Mary Roach The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex | Jerry's, Jan 18 | |
2009 | ||
| Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell | Joe's, Nov 30 | |
| Bridge of Sighs, by Richard Russo | Tom's, Oct 13 | |
| The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold | Paul's, Aug 20 | |
| Lush Life, by Richard Price | Buddy's, June 29 | |
| A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry | Barry's, May 4 | |
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The Stuff of Thought, by Steven Pinker Language as a Window into Human Nature | Steve's, Mar 16 | |
| The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski | Joe's, Feb 4 | |
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The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman A War Story | David's, Jan 6 | |
2008 | ||
| Blindness, by Jose Saramago | Lon's, Dec 1 | |
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Three Cups ofTea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time | Jerry's, Oct 6 | |
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Statecraft, by Dennis Ross And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World | Paul's, Sep 2 | |
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1491, by Charles C. Mann New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Joe's, July 3 | |
| Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott | Paul's, May 13 | |
| What is the What, by Dave Eggers | Tom's, Apr 21 | |
| Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen | Jerry's, Mar 4 | |
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Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Mark's, Jan 8 | |
2007 | ||
| The Harmony Silk Factory, by Tash Aw | Barry's, Monday, Nov 5 | |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan | Hosted by Steve at the Kitty Cat Klub, Oct 2 | |
| Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl | Joe's, Aug 29 | |
| The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon | Paul's, July 11 | |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt | Tom's, June 5 | |
| Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos | Lon's, May 1 | |
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Animals in Translation, by Temple Grandin Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior | David's, Mar 27 | |
| Little Children, by Tom Perrotta | Chambers, Feb 20 | |
| Zorro, by Isabel Allende | Joe's, Jan 9 | |
2006 | ||
| The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss | Lon's, Nov 28 | |
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The Singing Neanderthals, by Steven Mithen The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body | Steve's, Oct 24 | |
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The American Revelation, by Neil Baldwin Ten Ideals that Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War | Barry's, Sep 5 | |
| West With the Night, by Beryl Markham | Lon's, July 31 | |
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The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America | Tom's, July 11 | |
| Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson | Paul's, May 30 | |
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Collapse, by Jared Diamond How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Steve's, Apr 19 | |
| The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth | Jerry's, Mar 6 | |
| Life Support, by Tess Gerritsen | David's, Feb 6 | |
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Stiff, by Mary Roach The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers | Barry's, Jan 9 | |
2005 | ||
| Truman, by David McCullough | Lon's, Dec 5 | |
| Comeback, by Dick Francis | Joe's, Oct 10 | |
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Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood | Jerry's, Sep 12 | |
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The Hippopotamus, by Stephen Fry | Lyle's, Aug 1 | |
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Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer A Story of Violent Faith | Paul's, June 29 | |
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The Lobotomist, by Jack El-Hai A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness | Jack's, May 25 | |
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Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World | Lon's, Apr 27 | |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon | Joe's, Mar 23 | |
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The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Barry's, Feb 22 | |
| The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger | David's, Jan 25 | |
2004 | ||
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Moneyball, by Michael Lewis The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Jerry's, Dec 14 | |
| Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini | Joe's, Nov 17 | |
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Blue Latitudes, by Tony Horowitz Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before | Lon's, Oct 5 | |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon | Steve's, Aug 31 | |
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Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux Overland from Cairo to Capetown | Henry's, July 7 | |
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Inside Out, by Alexandra Stein A Memoir of Entering and Breaking out of a Minneapolis Political Cult | Lon's, May 25 | |
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Angels in America, by Tony Kushner A Gay Fantasia on National Themes | Barry's, Apr 13 | |
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Nonzero, by Robert Wright The Logic of Human Destiny | David's, Feb 24 | |
| War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges | Henry's, Jan 13 | |
2003 | ||
| Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown | Jerry's, Dec 17 | |
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Why Religion Matters, by Huston Smith The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief | Steve's, Nov 5 | |
| Life of Pi, by Yann Martel | Lon's, Oct 7 | |
| The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean | Joe's, Aug 26 | |
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The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | Barry's, July 29 | |
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The Blank Slate, by Steven Pinker The Modern Denial of Human Nature | David's, June 24 | |
| Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, by Doris Kearns Goodwin | Jerry's, May 12 | |
| In a Sunburned Country, by Bill Bryson | Lon's, Apr 2 | |
| Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson | Dan's, Mar 3 | |
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Killing Pablo, by Mark Bowden The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw | Henry's, Jan 22 | |
2002 | ||
| The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen | Steve's, Dec 11 | |
| Empire Falls, by Richard Russo | David's, Oct 23 | |
| Seabiscuit, by Laura Hillenbrand | Joe's, Sep 9 | |
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April 1865, by Jay Winik
The Month That Saved America | Barry's, July 22 | |
| The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett | George's, June 17 | |
| Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, by Ted Conover | Marty's, May 13 | |
| Beloved, by Toni Morrison | David's, Apr 8 | |
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A Beautiful Mind, by Sylvia Nasar
The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash | Jerry's, Feb 25 | |
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The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck, by Rory Nugent
A Journey into the Himalayas and Down the Brahmaputra | Dan's, Jan 7 | |
2001 | ||
| The Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong | Lon's, Dec 3 | |
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Salvation on Sand Mountain, by Dennis Covington
Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia | Joe's, Oct 22 | |
| His Monkey Wife, or Married to a Chimp, by John Collier | David's, Sep 19 Tom's, Sep 11 | |
| Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger | Jack's, Aug 16 | |
| Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer | Rick's, July 23 | |
| The Flanders Panel, by Arturo Perez-Reverte | Steve's, June 11 | |
| Girl With a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier | Jerry's, May 7 | |
| The Tennis Partner, by Abraham Verghese | Peter's, Apr 10 | |
| The Hours, by Michael Cunningham | Barry's, Mar 5 | |
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Driving Mr. Albert, by Michael Paterniti
A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain | David's, Feb 13 | |
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Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
The Fates of Human Societies | Bradley's, Jan 9 | |
2000 | ||
| Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield | Marty's, Nov 14 | |
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman
Understanding Globalization | Lon's, Oct 23 | |
| Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn | Rick's, Sep 21 | |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman | Joe's, Aug 22 | |
| The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver | George's, July 11 | |
| A Drinking Life, by Pete Hamill | Tom's, June 12 | |
| Cities of the Plain, by Cormac McCarthy | Jerry's, May 22 | |
| Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaarder | Lon's, Apr 10 | |
| A Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe | Joe's, Feb 28 | |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J. K. Rowling | Dan's, Jan 10 | |
1999 | ||
| Tomcat in Love, by Tim O'Brien | Barry's, Dec 6 | |
| How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker | George's, Nov 2 | |
| The Intuitionist, by Colson Whitehead | Joe's, Sep 21 | |
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No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II | David's, Aug 17 | |
| Freedomland, by Richard Price | Lon's, June 22 | |
| How to Read an Unwritten Language, by Philip Graham | Rick's, May 20 | |
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The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, by William Irwin Thompson
Mythology, Sexuality, and the Origins of Culture | Tom's, Apr 19 | |
| Straight Man, by Richard Russo | Peter's, Mar 11 | |
| Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman | Steve's, Feb 8 | |
| She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb | George's, Jan 4 | |
1998 | ||
| Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, by Mark J. Plotkin | Rick's, Nov 30 | |
| The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy | Barry's, Oct 12 | |
| The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger | Lon's, Sep 3 | |
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The Color of Water, by James McBride
A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother | Joe's, July 23 | |
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American Sphinx, by Joseph Ellis
The Character of Thomas Jefferson | Peter's, June 18 | |
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Martin Dressler, by Steven Millhauser The Tale of an American Dreamer | Tom's, Apr 30 | |
| Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier | David's, Mar 19 | |
| Virtual Light, by William Gibson | Dan's, Feb 12 | |
| A Simple Plan, by Scott Smith | George's, Jan 7 | |
1997 | ||
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Out of Control, by Kevin Kelly The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World |
Lon's, Dec 4 | |
| L.A. Confidential, by James Ellroy | Steve's, Oct 16 | |
| Primary Colors, by Anonymous | Barry's, Sep 15 | |
| Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi | David's, Aug 18 | |
| Accordian Crimes, by Annie Proulx | Dan's, July 16 | |
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Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
George's, June 25 | |
| The Future of Capitalism, by Lester Thurow | Tom's, May 22 | |
| A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr | Steve's, Apr 24 | |
| City Life, by Witold Rybczynski | Tom's, Mar 13 | |
| The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje | Peter's, Feb 6 | |
| The Ecology of Commerce, by Paul Hawken | Lon's, Jan 16 | |
1996 | ||
| Rainy Lake, by Mary Francoise Rockcastle | Barry's, Dec 12 | |
| What Are People For, by Wendell Berry | Steve's, Nov 12 | |
| All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren | David's, Oct 10 | |
| Outerbridge Reach, by Robert Stone | Tom's, Sep 4 | |
| The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, by Milan Kundera | George's, Aug 7 | |
| The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford | Lon's, July 10 | |
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Edge City, by Joel Garreau
Life on the New Frontier | Peter's, June 12 | |
| The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson | Tom's, May 1 | |
| Master and Commander, by Patrick O'Brian | Greg's, Mar 20 | |
| The Bone People, by Keri Hulme | Steve's, Feb 15 | |
| Postcards, by E. Annie Proulx | Barry's, Jan 11 | |
1995 * | ||
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The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life | David's, Dec 14 | |
| In the Lake of the Woods, by Tim O'Brien | Lon's, Nov ?? | |
| Clockers, by Richard Price | George's, Oct 11 | |
| The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy | ||
| The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker | Don's, Aug 10 | |
| Saint Mudd, by Steve Thayer | Greg's, July ?? | |
| Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson | ||
| The Shipping News, by E. Annie Proulx | Barry's, May 31 | |
| All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy | ||
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Miracle at Philadelphia, by Catherine Dinker Bowen The Story of the Constitutional Convention | ||
1994 * | ||
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A History of God, by Karen Armstrong The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam | ||
| Best American Short Stories of 1993, edited by Louise Erdrich | ||
| Crossing to Safety, by Wallace Stegner | Barry's, Sep 29 | |
| Money and the Meaning of Life, by Jacob Needleman | George's, Aug 18 | |
| The Age of Missing Information, by Bill McKibben | Greg's, July ?? | |
| Quinn's Book, by William Kennedy | Lyle's Liquor | |
| The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks | David's | |
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The Ape That Spoke, by John McCrone Language and the Evolution of the Human Mind | ||
| One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez | Lon's, Jan 6 | |
1993 * | ||
| Way Past Cool, by Jess Mowry | Lon's, Dec ?? | |
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Nature's Mind, by Michael S. Gazzaniga The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence |
Lon's, Nov ?? |
* The records for 1993-95 were reconstructed from memory and incomplete notes scribbled in raggedy old appointment books, so don't take this list too literally for those years.