The Sine Nomine Book Club is an informal book-discussion group that is loosely attached to Blue Grass Mensa. We meet the first Thursday of every month at 7:30pm, at members' homes on a rotating basis. At our meetings we:
Our dues are $3.00 per year, to cover postage. For further information and directions to the next Sine Nomine Book Club meeting, you may contact the host or our Secretary/Treasurer, John Barnes, by phone at (859)253-1178 or E-mail at jrbarnes@iglou.com.
Our next meeting will be Thursday December 8, 2005, 7:30pm, at Sandy Bush's home in Richmond, Kentucky. We will discuss Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History, by Erik Larson. For details and directions, please E-mail Sandy at bushsummit@yahoo.com, or call her at (859)623-4552. Our January book will be The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, by Will Cuppy.
100 Years of Solitude-- Gabriel Garcis Marquez
Adolf Hitler-- John Toland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-- Lewis Carroll
All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten-- Robert Fulghum
The Art of Deception-- Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon
Autobiography-- Benjamin Franklin
Bandits-- Elmore Leonard
The Bean Trees-- Barbara Kingsolver
Beloved-- Toni Morrison
The Birth of the Mind: How a Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities
of Human Thought-- Gary Marcus
Blood Sport-- Dick Francis
Blood Sport-- James B. Stewart
The Bluegrass Conspiracy-- Sally Denton
The Bonfire of the Vanities-- Tom Wolfe
A Brief History of Time--Stephen Hawking
The Bridges of Madison County-- Robert James Waller
Cardinal of the Kremlin-- Tom Clancy
Casino Royale-- Ian Fleming
The Cat Who Went to Paris-- Peter Gethers
Catch 22-- Joseph Heller
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake--Stan Redding and
Frank W. Abagnale
The Catcher in the Rye-- J. D. Salinger
The Celestine Prophecy-- James Redfield
The Chamber-- John Grisham
Cheaper by the Dozen-- Frank Gilbreth & Ernestine Carey
Chicken Soup for the Soul-- Jack Canfield
A Confederacy of Dunces-- John Kennedy Toole
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-- Mark Twain
Coping with Difficult People-- Robert M. Bramson
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time-- Mark Haddon
Dave Barry Slept Here-- Dave Barry
The Dead Cat Capers-- John Landreth
Dead Men Do Tell Tales-- William R. Maples
The Death of Common Sense-- Philip K. Howard
Democracy in America, Volume 1-- Alexis De Tocqueville
The Desert Rose-- Larry McMurtry
The Dilbert Principle-- Scott Adams
Disclosure-- Michael Crichton
The Discovery of the Titanic-- Robert D. Ballard
Downtown-- Anne Rivers Siddons
Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking with 101 Ways to Reason Better & Improve
Your Mind-- Steve Allen
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test-- Tom Wolfe
Emotional Intelligence-- Daniel Goleman
The English Patient-- Michael Ondaatje
Exploring the Zone-- Larry Miller and James Redfield
Eyeshot-- Lynn S. Hightower
Ethan Frome-- Edith Wharton
Exodus-- Leon Uris
Fatherland-- Robert Harris
Feather Crowns-- Bobbie Ann Mason
Finding Flow-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Firm-- John Grisham
Foundation-- Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein-- Mary Shelley
From Beirut to Jerusalem-- Thomas Friedman
From Potter's Field-- Patricia Cornwell
Getting the Love You Want-- Harville Hendrix
Gift from the Sea-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Girl with a Pearl Earring-- Tracy Chevalier
The Great Divorce-- C. S. Lewis
The Guns of August-- Barbara W. Tuchman
Habits of the Heart-- Bellah et al
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone-- J. K. Rowling
Hawaii: A Novel-- James A. Michener
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-- Douglas Adams
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life-- Alan Lakein
The Hound of the Baskervilles-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Identity Theft-- Robert Hammond
If You See the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!-- Sheldon Kopp
In Cold Blood-- Truman Capote
Iron John-- Robert Bly
John Adams-- David McCullough
The Jungle-- Upton Sinclair
Killing Mister Watson-- Peter Matthiessen
Kon-Tiki-- Thor Heyerdahl
Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History-- Richard Shenkman
Letters from the Earth-- Mark Twain
Like Water for Chocolate-- Laura Esquivel
Linden Hills-- Gloria Naylor
A Little Yellow Dog-- Walter Mosley
Los Alamos-- Joseph Kanon
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America-- Bill Bryston
Love in the Age of Cholera-- Marquez
Lullaby-- Ed McBain
Macbeth-- William Shakespeare
Man's Search for Meaning-- Viktor Frankl
Me-- Katharine Hepburn
Megatrends 2000-- Naisbitt and Auburdene
Memoirs of a Geisha-- Arthur S. Golden
The Memory of Old Jack-- Wendell Berry
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus-- John Gray
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil-- John Berendt
The Millionaire Next Door-- Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
Moo-- Jane Smiley
The Mote in God's Eye-- Larry Niven
Much Ado About Nothing-- William Shakespeare
My Jihad-- Aukai Collins
Never Cry Wolf-- Farley Mowat
Night Over Water-- Ken Follett
Not a Penny More, Not a a Penny Less-- Jeffrey Archer
The Origin of Species-- Charles Darwin
Other Voices, Other Rooms-- Truman Capote
Parliament of Whores-- P. J. O'Rourke
Passage to India-- Edward Morgan Forster
Passages-- Gail Sheehy
The Pelican Brief-- John Grisham
The People's Choice-- Jeff Greenfield
The Perfect Storm-- Sebastian Junger
The Picture of Dorian Gray-- Oscar Wilde
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek-- Annie Dillard
The Power of One-- Bryce Courtenay
A Prayer for Owen Meany-- John Irving
Presumed Innocent-- Scott Turow
The Prince of Tides-- Pat Conroy
Raney-- Clyde Edgerton
The Rapture of Canaan-- Sheri Reynolds
Red Dragon-- Thomas Harris
Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem-- Gloria Steinem
A River Runs Through It-- Norman Maclean
The Road Less Traveled-- M. Scott Peck
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter-- Robert K. Massie
Seabiscuit: An American Legend-- Laura Hillenbrand
Sense and Sensibility-- Jane Austen
Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community-- Wendell Berry
She's Come Undone-- Wally Lamb
Sibyl-- Flora Rheta Schreiber
Six Thinking Hats-- Edward de Bono
Slaughterhouse Five-- Kurt Vonnegut
Sleep of the Innocents-- Carole Fragoza Fernandez
Small Things Considered--Henry Petroski
Snow Falling on Cedars-- David Guterson
Something Wicked This Way Comes-- Ray Bradbury
Southern Discomfort-- Rita Mae Brown
Starship Troopers-- Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land-- Robert A. Heinlein
The Sum of All Fears-- Tom Clancy
Tender is the Night-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tesla: Man Out of Time-- Margaret Cheney
Thank You for Smoking-- Christopher Buckley
To the Lighthouse-- Virginia Woolf and Eudora Welty
Through the Looking Glass-- Lewis Carroll
Travels with Charlie-- John Steinbeck
Undaunted Courage-- Stephen Ambrose
Virus of the Mind-- Richard Brodie
You Just Don't Understand: Talk Between the Sexes-- Deborah Tannen
Why Men Are the Way They Are-- Warren Farrell
What Went Wrong?-- Bernard Lewis
The Winter of Our Discontent-- John Steinbeck
Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook-- Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht
Write It Down, Make It Happen-- Henriette Anne Klauser
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance-- Persig
Last revised November 4, 2005.