# R/W Book Club — Reading History > This file is designed for LLM consumption. Paste this URL into any AI > chatbot to give it full context about our book club's reading history. > Human-readable site: https://rwbookclub.com ## How to use this archive - `https://rwbookclub.com/llms.txt` — this file. Compact index of every book, with a URL to the detailed text file for each one. - `https://rwbookclub.com/books/.txt` — one plain-text file per book with full metadata, subjects (thematic tags), synopsis, meeting notes, member reviews, and a list of related books. Fetch these individually for the book you care about. - `https://rwbookclub.com/oliver/` — about Oliver, the club's AI agent (it maintains this archive) - `https://rwbookclub.com/books.json` — structured JSON, one row per book (including subjects and a related-books graph), for analytical or cross-book queries. - `https://rwbookclub.com/authors//` — a page per author, with a short bio and the books of theirs the club has read. - `https://rwbookclub.com/meetings/` — the full meeting timeline (book discussions plus the occasional spouses' dinner, movie night, and book-picking session). ## About the club The R/W Book Club has been meeting since April 2003. The "R/W" stands for Read / Write — the members are technically minded and many blog. The club reads about 8 books per year, mostly non-fiction (~88%). Members rotate picking the next book and hosting the discussion. As of this build there are 180 books across 24 years of reading. ## Meeting cadence - Meets roughly monthly (about 8 meetings per year) - Members rotate picking the next book - The picker usually hosts the discussion - Meetings are in-person in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area ## Current book - **Blindsight** by Peter Watts https://rwbookclub.com/books/blindsight.txt Read July 2026 · Picked by Loren ## Current members - Erik (37 picks) - Jamie (33 picks) - Loren (18 picks) - Nick (20 picks) - Oliver - Tom (32 picks) ## Topic distribution - History & Economics: 27 books - Science Fiction & Fiction: 25 books - Politics & Social Sciences: 25 books - Brain & Psychology: 24 books - Science and Math: 23 books - Technology: 22 books - Current Events & People: 12 books - Essays & Literature: 7 books - Health & Medicine: 6 books - Travel & Memoir: 5 books - Philosophy & Religion: 3 books ## Reading history (compact) Books are listed newest-first, grouped by year. Follow the .txt URL under each entry for the full metadata, synopsis, and reviews for that book. ### 2026 - **Blindsight** by Peter Watts https://rwbookclub.com/books/blindsight.txt · 384pp · Published 2006 · Picked by Loren - **A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness** by Michael Pollan https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-world-appears.txt Essays & Literature · 320pp · Published 2026 · Picked by Jamie - **Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way it Does** by Philip Ball https://rwbookclub.com/books/patterns-in-nature.txt Science and Math · 288pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Tom - **The Overstory** by Richard Powers https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-overstory.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 512pp · Published 2019 · Picked by Erik ### 2025 - **Enshittification** by Cory Doctorow https://rwbookclub.com/books/enshittification.txt Technology · 352pp · Published 2025 · Picked by Tom - **Heart of Darkness** by Joseph Conrad https://rwbookclub.com/books/heart-of-darkness.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 120pp · Published 1902 · Picked by Nick - **The Origins of Totalitarianism** by Hannah Arendt https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-origins-of-totalitarianism.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 440pp · Published 1951 · Picked by Loren - **Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI** by Ethan Mollick https://rwbookclub.com/books/co-intelligence.txt Technology · Published 2024 · Picked by Jamie - **How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy** by Jenny Odell https://rwbookclub.com/books/how-to-do-nothing.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 256pp · Published 2019 · Picked by Erik ### 2024 - **Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages** by Guy Deutscher https://rwbookclub.com/books/through-the-language-glass.txt Brain & Psychology · 296pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Erik - **Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War** by Paul Scharre https://rwbookclub.com/books/army-of-none.txt Technology · 384pp · Published 2018 · Picked by Tom - **The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of a New Future** by Sebastian Mallaby https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-power-law.txt History & Economics · 496pp · Published 2022 · Picked by Nick - **Dictionary People** by Sarah Ogilvie https://rwbookclub.com/books/dictionary-people.txt Current Events & People · 384pp · Published 2023 · Picked by Loren - **Medici Money** by Tim Parks https://rwbookclub.com/books/medici-money.txt History & Economics · 288pp · Published 2006 · Picked by Jamie ### 2023 - **Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity** by David Graeber and David Wengrow https://rwbookclub.com/books/dawn-of-everything.txt History & Economics · 752pp · Published 2021 · Picked by Erik - **Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds** by Thomas Halliday https://rwbookclub.com/books/otherlands.txt Science and Math · 112pp · Published 2022 · Picked by Tom - **Nation of Takers: America's Entitlement Epidemic** by Nicholas Eberstadt https://rwbookclub.com/books/nation-of-takers.txt Politics & Social Sciences · Published 2012 · Picked by Nick - **Men Without Work** by Nicholas Eberstadt https://rwbookclub.com/books/men-without-work.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 206pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Nick - **A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments** by David Foster Wallace https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-supposedly-fun-thing-i-ll-never-do-again.txt Essays & Literature · 353pp · Published 1997 · Picked by Loren - **To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret** by Jedidiah Jenkins https://rwbookclub.com/books/to-shake-the-sleeping-self.txt Travel & Memoir · 352pp · Published 2018 · Picked by Jamie ### 2022 - **Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota** by Gwen Westerman and Bruce White https://rwbookclub.com/books/mni-sota-makoce.txt History & Economics · 296pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Erik - **Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas** by Natasha Dow Schüll https://rwbookclub.com/books/addiction-by-design.txt Brain & Psychology · 472pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Tom - **The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization** by Paul Strathern https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-florentines.txt History & Economics · 400pp · Published 2021 · Picked by Nick - **Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound** by Aeschylus https://rwbookclub.com/books/aeschylus-i.txt History & Economics · 256pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Nick - **Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty** by Patrick Radden Keefe https://rwbookclub.com/books/empire-of-pain.txt Current Events & People · 720pp · Published 2021 · Picked by Loren - **The Blocksize War: The battle over who controls Bitcoin’s protocol rules** by Jonathan Bier https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-blocksize-war.txt Technology · 228pp · Published 2021 · Picked by Jamie ### 2021 - **Caste** by Isabel Wilkerson https://rwbookclub.com/books/caste.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 496pp · Published 2020 · Picked by Erik - **Nature & Walking** by Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson https://rwbookclub.com/books/nature-walking.txt Essays & Literature · 76pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Nick - **Evicted** by Matthew Desmond https://rwbookclub.com/books/evicted.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 464pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Loren - **A Man at Arms** by Steven Pressfield https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-man-at-arms.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 336pp · Published 2021 · Picked by Jamie - **Klara and the Sun** by Kazuo Ishiguro https://rwbookclub.com/books/klara-and-the-sun.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 419pp · Published 2019 · Picked by Tom - **The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World** by David Anthony https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-horse-the-wheel-and-language.txt History & Economics · 568pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Loren - **Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero** by Christopher McDougall https://rwbookclub.com/books/running-with-sherman.txt Travel & Memoir · 496pp · Published 2019 · Picked by Jamie - **The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous** by Joseph Henrich https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-weirdest-people-in-the-world.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 704pp · Published 2020 · Picked by Erik - **Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves** by Frans De Waal https://rwbookclub.com/books/mama-s-last-hug.txt Science and Math · 396pp · Published 2019 · Picked by Tom ### 2020 - **Unflattening** by Nick Sousanis https://rwbookclub.com/books/unflattening.txt Essays & Literature · 208pp · Published 2015 · Picked by Nick - **Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival** by David Pilling https://rwbookclub.com/books/bending-adversity.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 382pp · Published 2014 · Picked by Loren - **The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement** by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-rise-of-big-data-policing.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 259pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Jamie - **Benjamin Franklin: An American Life** by Walter Isaacson https://rwbookclub.com/books/benjamin-franklin.txt History & Economics · 626pp · Published 2003 · Picked by Erik - **Replay** by Ken Grimwood https://rwbookclub.com/books/replay.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · 519pp · Published 1986 · Picked by Tom - **The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction** by David M. Gwynn https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-roman-republic.txt History & Economics · 144pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Nick - **The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower** by Michael Pillsbury https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-hundred-year-marathon.txt History & Economics · 352pp · Published 2015 · Picked by Nick - **The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World** by Pedro Domingos https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-master-algorithm.txt Technology · 333pp · Published 2015 · Picked by Loren - **The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life** by Anu Partanen https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-nordic-theory-of-everything.txt Current Events & People · 448pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Loren ### 2019 - **Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies** by Edward O. Wilson https://rwbookclub.com/books/genesis.txt Science and Math · 160pp · Published 2019 · Picked by Erik - **How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading** by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren https://rwbookclub.com/books/how-to-read-a-book.txt Brain & Psychology · 385pp · Published 1940 · Picked by Tom - **Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance** by Robert Pirsig https://rwbookclub.com/books/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 373pp · Published 1974 · Picked by Nick - **Educated: A Memoir** by Tara Westover https://rwbookclub.com/books/educated.txt Current Events & People · 464pp · Published 2018 · Picked by Loren - **Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life** by David R. Montgomery https://rwbookclub.com/books/growing-a-revolution.txt Science and Math · 320pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Jamie - **Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts** by Alexander Langlands https://rwbookclub.com/books/craeft.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 352pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Jamie - **Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies** by Geoffrey West https://rwbookclub.com/books/scale.txt Science and Math · 479pp · Published 2015 · Picked by Tom ### 2018 - **Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy** by George Gilder https://rwbookclub.com/books/life-after-google.txt Technology · 320pp · Published 2018 · Picked by Nick - **How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence** by Michael Pollan https://rwbookclub.com/books/how-to-change-your-mind.txt Health & Medicine · 528pp · Published 2018 · Picked by Jamie - **Freedom™** by Daniel Suarez https://rwbookclub.com/books/freedom-tm.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · 499pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Loren - **Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed** by Jared Diamond https://rwbookclub.com/books/collapse.txt History & Economics · 515pp · Published 2004 · Picked by Erik - **Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind** by Yuval Noah Harari https://rwbookclub.com/books/sapiens.txt History & Economics · 456pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Loren - **Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams** by Matthew Walker https://rwbookclub.com/books/why-we-sleep.txt Health & Medicine · 485pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Nick - **Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment** by Robert Wright https://rwbookclub.com/books/why-buddhism-is-true.txt Philosophy & Religion · 336pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Tom - **Walkaway** by Cory Doctorow https://rwbookclub.com/books/walkaway.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 560pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Loren ### 2017 - **Daemon** by Daniel Suarez https://rwbookclub.com/books/daemon.txt Technology · Fiction · 640pp · Published 2009 · Picked by Jamie - **A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution** by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-crack-in-creation.txt Science and Math · 248pp · Published 2017 · Picked by Erik - **How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer** by Sarah Bakewell https://rwbookclub.com/books/how-to-live.txt Philosophy & Religion · 416pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Tom - **Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise** by Anders Ericsson https://rwbookclub.com/books/peak.txt Brain & Psychology · 307pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Nick - **The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance** by Nessa Carey https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-epigenetics-revolution.txt Science and Math · 352pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Loren - **Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World** by Mark Miodownik https://rwbookclub.com/books/stuff-matters.txt Science and Math · 272pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Jamie - **Norse Mythology** by Neil Gaiman https://rwbookclub.com/books/norse-mythology.txt History & Economics · 272pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Erik - **All Art Is Propaganda** by George Orwell https://rwbookclub.com/books/all-art-is-propaganda.txt Essays & Literature · 374pp · Published 2008 · Picked by Tom - **The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life** by Nick Lane https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-vital-question.txt Science and Math · 352pp · Published 2001 · Picked by Nick - **Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market** by Janine R. Wedel https://rwbookclub.com/books/shadow-elite.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 283pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Loren ### 2016 - **Hillbilly Eligy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis** by J. D. Vance https://rwbookclub.com/books/hillbilly-eligy.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 256pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Jamie - **Ancillary Justice** by Ann Leckie https://rwbookclub.com/books/ancillary-justice.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 444pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Erik - **The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America** by Louis Menand https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-metaphysical-club.txt History & Economics · 384pp · Published 2001 · Picked by Tom - **American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America** by Colin Woodard https://rwbookclub.com/books/american-nations.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 384pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Nick - **The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War** by Robert J. Gordon https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-american-growth.txt History & Economics · 762pp · Published 2016 · Picked by Loren - **Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future** by Ashlee Vance https://rwbookclub.com/books/elon-musk.txt Current Events & People · 402pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Jamie ### 2015 - **Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction** by Philip E. Tetlock https://rwbookclub.com/books/superforecasting.txt Science and Math · 326pp · Published 2015 · Picked by Erik - **Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End** by Atul Gawande https://rwbookclub.com/books/being-mortal.txt Health & Medicine · 287pp · Published 2014 - **The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?** by Jared Diamond https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-world-until-yesterday.txt History & Economics · 592pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Nick - **Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business** by Neil Postman https://rwbookclub.com/books/amusing-ourselves-to-death.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 214pp · Published 1985 · Picked by Tom - **Roadside Picnic** by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky https://rwbookclub.com/books/roadside-picnic.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 256pp · Published 1978 · Picked by Loren - **The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution** by Walter Isaacson https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-innovators.txt History & Economics · 608pp · Published 2014 · Picked by Jamie - **Complexity: A Very Short Introduction** by John H. Holland https://rwbookclub.com/books/complexity.txt Science and Math · 112pp · Published 2014 - **No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State** by Glenn Greenwald https://rwbookclub.com/books/no-place-to-hide.txt Current Events & People · 333pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Erik - **The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order** by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-age-of-cryptocurrency.txt Current Events & People · 368pp · Published 2015 · Picked by Tom - **The Structure and Dynamics of Networks** by Mark Newman and Duncan J. Watts https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-structure-and-dynamics-of-networks.txt Science and Math · 592pp · Published 2006 · Picked by Nick ### 2014 - **Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships** by Sue Johnson https://rwbookclub.com/books/love-sense.txt Brain & Psychology · 352pp · Published 2013 - **Far from the Tree** by Andrew Solomon https://rwbookclub.com/books/far-from-the-tree.txt Brain & Psychology · 464pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Erik - **Thinking in Systems** by Donella Meadows https://rwbookclub.com/books/thinking-in-systems.txt Science and Math · 256pp · Published 2008 · Picked by Tom - **The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon** by Brad Stone https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-everything-store.txt Current Events & People · 416pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Nick - **Antifragile** by Nassim Nicholas Taleb https://rwbookclub.com/books/antifragile.txt Science and Math · 656pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Jamie - **The Martian: A Novel** by Andy Weir https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-martian.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 384pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Erik - **A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam** by Karen Armstrong https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-history-of-god.txt History & Economics · 528pp · Published 1993 · Picked by Tom - **Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking** by Susan Cain https://rwbookclub.com/books/quiet.txt Brain & Psychology · 368pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Nick ### 2013 - **Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology** by Alexis Madrigal https://rwbookclub.com/books/powering-the-dream.txt Technology · 365pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Jamie - **The Emperor of All Maladies** by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-emperor-of-all-maladies.txt Health & Medicine · 712pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Dan - **Behind the Beautiful Forevers** by Katherine Boo https://rwbookclub.com/books/behind-the-beautiful-forevers.txt Current Events & People · 290pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Jamie - **This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information** by Andy Greenberg https://rwbookclub.com/books/this-machine-kills-secrets.txt Current Events & People · 384pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Erik - **The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia** by Andrei Lankov https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-real-north-korea.txt Current Events & People · 283pp · Published 2013 · Picked by Tom - **The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity** by Steven Strogatz https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-joy-of-x.txt Science and Math · 336pp · Published 2012 · Picked by John - **The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It** by Kelly McGonigal https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-willpower-instinct.txt Brain & Psychology · 288pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Jamie - **The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't** by Nate Silver https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-signal-and-the-noise.txt Brain & Psychology · 656pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Erik - **To Say Nothing of the Dog** by Connie Willis https://rwbookclub.com/books/to-say-nothing-of-the-dog.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 512pp · Published 1997 · Picked by Dan ### 2012 - **Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive** by Bruce Schneier https://rwbookclub.com/books/liars-and-outliers.txt Brain & Psychology · 366pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Dan - **Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World** by Tina Rosenberg https://rwbookclub.com/books/join-the-club.txt Brain & Psychology · 402pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Tom - **Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas** by Dale Carpenter https://rwbookclub.com/books/flagrant-conduct.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 384pp · Published 2012 · Picked by John - **The Devil in the White City** by Erik Larson https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-devil-in-the-white-city.txt History & Economics · 362pp · Published 2003 · Picked by Jamie - **A Canticle for Leibowitz** by Walter M. Miller, Jr. https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-canticle-for-leibowitz.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 294pp · Published 1959 · Picked by Jamie - **The Mystery of Banking** by Murray N. Rothbard https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-mystery-of-banking.txt History & Economics · 168pp · Published 2012 · Picked by Dan - **Count Zero** by William Gibson https://rwbookclub.com/books/count-zero.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 320pp · Published 1986 · Picked by Tom - **Thinking Fast and Slow** by Daniel Kahneman https://rwbookclub.com/books/thinking-fast-and-slow.txt Brain & Psychology · 400pp · Published 2011 · Picked by John - **The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive** by Brian Christian https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-most-human-human.txt Brain & Psychology · 320pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Jamie - **Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It** by Lawrence Lessig https://rwbookclub.com/books/republic-lost.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 370pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Erik ### 2011 - **Darwin's Radio** by Greg Bear https://rwbookclub.com/books/darwin-s-radio.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 488pp · Published 1999 · Picked by Dan - **The Selfish Gene** by Richard Dawkins https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-selfish-gene.txt Science and Math · 352pp · Published 1976 · Picked by Tom - **The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right** by Atul Gawande https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-checklist-manifesto.txt Brain & Psychology · 209pp · Published 2010 · Picked by John - **Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior** by Deborah Gordon https://rwbookclub.com/books/ant-encounters.txt Science and Math · 167pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Jamie - **Never Let Me Go** by Kazuo Ishiguro https://rwbookclub.com/books/never-let-me-go.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 296pp · Published 2005 · Picked by Erik - **Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier** by Edward Glaeser https://rwbookclub.com/books/triumph-of-the-city.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 456pp · Published 2011 · Picked by Dan - **The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires** by Tim Wu https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-master-switch.txt Technology · 388pp · Published 2010 · Picked by Tom ### 2010 - **In a Sunburned Country** by Bill Bryson https://rwbookclub.com/books/in-a-sunburned-country.txt Travel & Memoir · 411pp · Published 2000 · Picked by John - **Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance** by Noam Chomsky https://rwbookclub.com/books/hegemony-or-survival.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 319pp · Published 2003 · Picked by Jamie - **A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century** by Barbara Tuchman https://rwbookclub.com/books/a-distant-mirror.txt History & Economics · 726pp · Published 1979 · Picked by Dan - **Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell** by Dennis Bray https://rwbookclub.com/books/wetware.txt Science and Math · 267pp · Published 2009 · Picked by Tom - **Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln** by Doris Kearns Goodwin https://rwbookclub.com/books/team-of-rivals.txt History & Economics · 1308pp · Published 2003 · Picked by John - **The Golden Age** by John C. Wright https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-golden-age.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 320pp · Published 2002 · Picked by Jamie - **Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability** by Steve Krug https://rwbookclub.com/books/don-t-make-me-think.txt Technology · 200pp · Published 2000 · Picked by Erik - **Creating a World without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives** by Muhammad Yunus https://rwbookclub.com/books/creating-a-world-without-poverty.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 320pp · Published 1999 · Picked by Dan - **Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion** by Robert B. Cialdini https://rwbookclub.com/books/influence.txt Brain & Psychology · 272pp · Published 1983 · Picked by Tom ### 2009 - **Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul** by Stuart Brown and Christopher Vaughan https://rwbookclub.com/books/play.txt Brain & Psychology · 229pp · Published 2009 · Picked by John - **Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention** by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi https://rwbookclub.com/books/creativity.txt Brain & Psychology · 464pp · Published 1996 · Picked by Jamie - **Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air** by David MacKay https://rwbookclub.com/books/sustainable-energy-without-the-hot-air.txt Technology · 384pp · Published 2009 · Picked by Erik - **The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health** by Thomas Campbell and T. Colin Campbell https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-china-study.txt Health & Medicine · 417pp · Published 2004 · Picked by Dan - **Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World** by Alexander (Sandy) Pentland https://rwbookclub.com/books/honest-signals.txt Science and Math · 184pp · Published 2008 · Picked by Tom - **Doomsday Book** by Connie Willis https://rwbookclub.com/books/doomsday-book.txt Science Fiction & Fiction · Fiction · 559pp · Published 1992 · Picked by John - **Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much** by Maggie Mahar https://rwbookclub.com/books/money-driven-medicine.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 480pp · Published 2006 · Picked by Jamie - **The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court** by Jeffrey Toobin https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-nine.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 369pp · Published 2007 · Picked by Erik ### 2008 - **The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9-11** by Lawrence Wright https://rwbookclub.com/books/the-looming-tower.txt Politics & Social Sciences · 502pp · Published 2006 · Picked by Dan - **Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)** by Tom Vanderbilt https://rwbookclub.com/books/traffic.txt Brain & Psychology · 402pp · Published 2008 · Picked by Tom - **Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness** by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. 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