Book Club Events: Past Event
- The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
- The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew L. Ball
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley
- The Case For Modern Man by Charles Frankl
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
- Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill
- Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
- A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes
- The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
- The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
- An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
- The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't by Nate Silver
- Why? The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff
- Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao by Lao Tzu
- The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
- Understanding Knowledge by Michael Huemer
- Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
- Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
- The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
- Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
- A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
- Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
- Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
- Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
- The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
- The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
- The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman
- The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
- Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
- Candide by Voltaire
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock, and Dan Gardner
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
- Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- Transformative Experience by L. A. Paul
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
- Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
- Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
- The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
- The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
- Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
- A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
- The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
- The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
- Elektra by Jennifer Saint
- Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different by Chantel Prat
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
- A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
- Berlin by Jason Lutes
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap by Gish Jen
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
- Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- The Politics by Aristotle
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner
- Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life by Jordan B. Peterson
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
- The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
- Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations by Roger J. Davies
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Screwed Up Somehow But Not Stupid: Life With a Learning Disability by Peter Flom
- Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt, and Stephen J. Dubner
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices by Cornelia C. Walther
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
- Go Ask the River by Evelyn Eaton
- Ancient China: Chinese Civilization From Its Origins To The Tang Dynasty by Maurizio Scarpari
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
