Patrick:

• The Midwest Survival Guide by Charlie Berens

• Present Moment, Wonderful Moment by Thaich Nhat Hahn

Steve:

• The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman
• Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen
• On Corruption in America: and What Is at Stake by Sarah Chayes
• Lab Girl by Hope Jarhen
• Eon and Eternity by Greg Bear
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. DuBois
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss,
• The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
• Invisible Differences:  A Story of Asperger's, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color by Julie Dachez, art by Mademoiselle Caroline

Dick:

• Appeasement: Chamerlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
• Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbothom
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
• Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart by Mim Swartz
• Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar
• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolf
• Grant by Ron Chernow
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amar Towles
•  The Better Angels of our Nature by Stephen Pinker
• A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
• A Brief History of Everyone Who Has Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford
• Origin Story by David Christian
• Mosquito: Man's Greatest Enemy
• RIP GOP: How the New America is Dooming the Republican Party
• Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez
• The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma
• Chesapeake by James Michener

Marshall:

Bob:

-Black Hole Blues, Janna Levin

The story of the people behind LIGO, the Laser Interferometry Gravity Observatory, which recently produced clear evidence of the collision of black holes.  Some of these people spent their entire careers designing and lobbying for an instrument that might not actually work, even if it were funded and built.

-An American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal

A description of how the American health care system came to its present sorry state

-Musings of an Energy Nerd, Martin  Holladay

Thoughts on how to make homes more energy efficient.

-The Tunnel at the End of the Light, Jim Shepard

Modern America seen through the lens of a number of films- reading this book  is like getting a paper cut.

-Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

An attempt to address the reality that robots and computers really are going to take over the world in a few decades or so.

-Mycorrhizal Planet, Michael Phillips

How symbiotic fungi work with roots to support plant health and build soil fertility

-Why Buildings Fall Down, Levy & Salvadori

Their first book was Why Buildings Don’t Fall Down, but Levy’s mother thought this one would be more interesting.

-Algorithms to Live By, Christian & Griffiths

While humans are certainly not computers, understanding some of the information management techniques they use can make life as  human a bit easier sometimes.

-In Search of Stardust- Amazing Micrometeorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters, Jon Larsen

The Earth is impacted by tons of micrometeorites every day and Larsen has learned to find and distinguish stardust from ordinary terrestrial dust.

John:

The Leavers (National Book Award Finalist) by Lisa Ko

I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonning and Phillip Rucker

Peril by Bob Woodward

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Why We Are So Polarized by Ezra Klein

Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the Worlds's Slamon by Tucker Malarkey

Picnic in the Ruins by Todd Robert Petersen

The Push by Ashley Audrain