Join the Fellowship of Reason Non-Fiction Book Club!  Our reading list of influential and thought-provoking books covers such topics as history, science, social issues, philosophy and the arts. 

We meet every other month at 11am for brunch and discussion.  Participants are encouraged to suggest titles, and the coordinator will make the final selections.  Attendees are expected to have completed the book before the meeting and to be prepared to present at least one point related to the book for discussion.  Your host and hostess will provide eggs, toast, coffee, and juice.  Participants are encouraged to bring other items.

Non-FOR members are welcome!

FOR does not necessarily endorse the content of selected works; we wish simply to broaden our outlook by exposure to a variety of topics and opinions.  Meeting times and book selections are subject to change.

Visit FOR's calendar at Meetup.com for more information on this and other events.

Upcoming Selections:

September 11, 2010 - Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer

November 13, 2010 - The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J. Stiles

Previous Selections:

July 2010 - The Architecture of Happiness, by Alain De Botton

May 2010 - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain De Botton

March 2010 - Democracy in America, Vol 2, by Alexis de Tocqueville

January 2010 - Democracy in America, Vol 1, by Alexis de Tocqueville

November 2009 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, by Jean-Dominique Bauby

September 2009 - The Great Good Place, by Ray Oldenburg

July 2009 - Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

May 2009 - Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, by Susan Jacoby

July 2008 - Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited, by Vladimir Nabokov

June 2008 - The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, by Eric Weiner.

May 2008 - Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, by David Brooks.

March 2008 - Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. 

February 2007 - No meeting this month.

January 2008 - No meeting this month.

December 2007 - Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks.

November 2007 - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, by Tim Weiner. October 2007 - No meeting this month.

September 2007 - Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert.

August 2007 - Winston Churchill, by John Keegan.

July 2007 - The Last Folk Hero, by Andrew Dietz. 

June 2007 - Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman.

May 2007 - The Emperor's Handbook: The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

April 2007 - No meeting this month.

March 2007 - West with the Night, by Beryl Markham.

February 2007 - The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins.

January 2007 - The Art of Being, by Eric Fromm.

December 2006 - The Corporation, by Joel Bakan.

November 2006 - The Dogs of God, by James Reston.

October 2006 - The Innocents Abroad, by Mark Twain.

August 2006 - No meeting this month.

July 2006 - Still Looking: Essays on American Art, by John Updike.

June 2006 - All Rivers Run to the Sea, by Elie Wiesel.

May 2006 - Truth: A Guide, by Simon Blackburn.

March 2006 - Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.

February 2006 - The Snow Leopard, by Peter Matthieson.

January 2006 - Fashionable Nonsense, by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.

December 2005 - But Is It Art?, by Cynthia Freeland.

November 2005 - In Defense of Elitism, by William A. Henry.

October 2005 - The Ascent of Man, by Jacob Bronowski.

September 2005 - No meeting this month.

August 2005 - The End of Faith, by Sam Harris.

June/July 2005 - From Dawn to Decadence, by Jacques Barzun.

May 2005 - Status Anxiety, by Alain de Botton.

April 2005 - The Killing of History, by Keith Windschuttle.

March 2005 - Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond.

February 2005 - Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

January 2005 - The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell.

December 2004 - The Gifts of the Jews, by Thomas Cahill.

November 2004 - The End of History & the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama.

October 2004 - Freedom Evolves, by Daniel C. Dennett.

September 2004 - John Adams, by David McCullough.

August 2004 - Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi.

July 2004 - What Went Wrong?, by Bernard Lewis.