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All Creatures Great and Small

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club June 2025
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Stranger Than Fiction Book Club May 2025
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick April 2025
The Soul of an Octopus

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick March 2025
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Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick February 2025
The Professor and the Madman

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick January 2025
Small Wonder

Stranger than Fiction Book Club Pick December 2024
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Stranger than Fiction Book Club Pick November 2024
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Stranger than Fiction Book Club Pick October 2024
The Chaos Machine

Stranger than Fiction Book Club Pick September 2024
Beautiful Country

Stranger Than Fiction: A Non-Fiction Book Club Pick August 2024
The Bad-ass Librarians of Timbuktu

Stranger Than Fiction: A Non-Fiction Book Club Pick July 2024
The Great Displacement

Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club - June 2024
Happy-Go-Lucky

Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club - May 2024
The Home That Was Our Country

Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club - April 2024
Fun Home

Stranger Than Fiction: A Nonfiction Book Club - March 2024
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club pick - February 2024
A Fever in the Heartland

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club pick - January 2024
The Last Black Unicorn

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club pick - December 2023
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - November 2023
People Who Eat Darkness

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - October 2023
The Line Becomes a River

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - September 2023
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - August 2023
I Live a Life Like Yours

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - July 2023
This is Your Brain on Music

Stranger than Fiction Book Club Pick - June 2023
Trick Mirror

Stranger than Fiction Book Club pick - May 2023
Brain on Fire

Stranger than Fiction Book Club pick - April 2023
Nowhere Girl

Stranger than Fiction Book Club pick - March 2023
Black Klansman

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - February 2023
Into the Wild

Stranger Than Fiction Book Club Pick - January 2023
Conditional Citizens

Stranger than Fiction Book Club Pick for December 2022
Braiding Sweetgrass

Stranger than Fiction Book Club pick for November 2022
The Best We Could Do

Stranger than Fiction Book Club pick for October 2022
Good Boy

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Ruthless Tide

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Furious Hours

Stranger than Fiction Book Club pick for April 13, 2022

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