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Non-Fiction Book Poll

Collaborate in choosing our next NON-FICTION book for group discussion within this forum. A minimum of 5 posts is necessary to participate here!

Select as many NON-FICTION books as you read and discuss with us as a group

Book 1 - Evolutionary Psychology: A Beginner's Guide by Robin Dunbar
4

6%
Book 2 - Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
7

10%
Book 3 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
3

4%
Book 4 - 2012: Science or Superstition by Alexandra Bruce
3

4%
Book 5 - The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam
1

1%
Book 6 - The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
5

7%
Book 7 - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
5

7%
Book 8 - Death by China: Confronting the Dragon by Peter W. Navarro and Greg Autry
4

6%
Book 9 - Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East by Asef Bayat
1

1%
Book 10 - Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
3

4%
Book 11 - A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
4

6%
Book 12 - A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links... by Nassir Ghaemi
2

3%
Book 13 - At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
2

3%
Book 14 - Breaking the Code by Karen Fisher-Alaniz
3

4%
Book 15 - Reality Is Broken by Jane McGonigal
3

4%
BOOK 16 - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
7

10%
BOOK 17 - The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor Lavey
2

3%
BOOK 18 - December 1941: 31 Days that Changed America... by Craig Shirley
5

7%
BOOK 19 - The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
2

3%
BOOK 20 - Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
5

7%
 
Total votes: 71
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This is cool.
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We have two books with 7 votes each. There is some overlap between the two books, in other words, some people voted for both books. So some of the people that voted for both books could easily decide to read and discuss only one of two books. This would be reasonable and we could not be surprised or disappointed in this decision. Then again, we might see a few of these people joining in both book discussions.

Here are the poll results:

BOOk 2 - Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
CWT36, DWill, Dave The Marine, President Camacho, Sal_McCoy, franic, heledd

BOOK 16 - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
CWT36, DWill, Robert Tulip, Sal_McCoy, franic, geo, wilde

A few of these voters are brand new to the community and we'll be taking a gamble with counting their votes.
  1. franic has 1 post on the forums and he/she voted for both books. Will this person participate? Seeing as a vote was cast for both books we have little to lose.
  2. Dave the Marine has 15 posts but appears to be jumping right into forum discussions.
The rest of the voters have proven track records so we're bound to have some great discussions.

I'm going to create a discussion forum for both of these books right now. The goal is to have these two discussions start January 1st. :)
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On the next poll we can go back to these books and grab some that are still of interest. Call it recycling if you will.
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