EPBC Meets Next on July 28, 2009 @ 7 PM

Join us Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 7 PM for the next meeting of the Eden Prairie Book Club, where we'll discuss The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles. The book is available at the library, or you can buy it online or at a bookstore. The July 28, 2009 meeting will take place at the Dunn Brothers on Eden Prairie Rd. Look for the table with the Iraqi flag on it (inspired by the club's first selection). All are welcome. Email me if you have any questions.

The club meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, for one hour, at the Smith Douglas More House Dunn Bros located here. You're most welcome to join us, whether or not you've read the selection--though you're encouraged to do so. Attending once in no way requires you to attend again; feel free to give the group a try as often as you like. Anyone may attend. Got a suggestion? Email me

Future selections:

8.25.09 - Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill

9.22.09 - Cosmos and Hearth, by Yi-Fu Tuan

10.27.09 - Minima Moralia, by Theodor Adorno

11.24.09 - Out of Sheer Rage, by Geoff Dyer

12.22.09 - Chronic City, by Jonathan Lethem

Club Lore:

2009:
January - Political Hypocrisy, by David Runciman
February - The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
March - Race, Incarceration, and American Values, by Glenn Loury
April - To The Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
May - Our Lincoln, by Eric Foner
June - The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga

2008:
January - The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, by H.W. Brands
February - Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
March - Legacy of Ashes, by Tim Weiner
April - Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson
May - Your Inner Fish, by Neil Shubin
June - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
July - The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin
August - Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
September - Little Heathens, by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
October - Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
November - Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein
December - I, The Supreme, by Augusto Roa Bastos

2007:
January - At Canaan's Edge, by Taylor Branch
February - The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
March - Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, by Caroline Elkins
April - Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
May - A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights, by Elizabeth Borgwardt
June - Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, by Jorge Luis Borges
July - Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood, by Steven Mintz
August - Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence
September - Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in it, by Thomas de Zengotita
October - Myra Breckinridge, by Gore Vidal
November - Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village, by Daniel H. Deudney
December - On Chesil Beach: A Novel, by Ian McEwan

2006:
January - Ulysses, by James Joyce.
February - Andrew Jackson : His Life and Times, by H W Brands. March - Team of Rivals, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
April - The Rise of American Democracy, by Sean Wilentz.
May - Friendly Fire, by Julia Sweig.
June - The Five, by Vladimir Jabotinsky.
July - The Missionary Position, by Christopher Hitchens.
August - The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley.
September - The Cold War : A New History, by John Lewis Gaddis.
October - Honor: A History, by James Bowman.
November - On The Road, by Jack Kerouac.
December - The Secret River, by Kate Grenville

2005:
October - Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace, by Michael Goldfarb.
November - Shroud, by John Banville.
December - War Trash, by Ha Jin.