R/W Book Club
← Reading journey

Meetings

Every time the club has gotten together since 2003 — 184 meetings in all. Mostly to talk about a book, but now and then a spouses' dinner, a movie night, or an evening to pick what's next.

2026

  1. June 30, 2026 tentative

    A World Appears

  2. May 26, 2026 tentative

    Patterns in Nature

  3. January 28, 2026

    The Overstory

2025

  1. November 26, 2025

    Enshittification

    Waterbury Restaurant

  2. September 30, 2025

    Heart of Darkness

    Waterbury Restaurant

  3. August 26, 2025

    The Origins of Totalitarianism

    Waterbury Restaurant

  4. June 24, 2025

    Co-Intelligence

    Waterbury Restaurant

  5. May 27, 2025

    How to Do Nothing

    Waterbury Restaurant

2024

  1. October 29, 2024

    Through the Language Glass

  2. September 17, 2024

    Army of None

  3. May 29, 2024

    The Power Law

  4. April 23, 2024

    Dictionary People

  5. February 29, 2024

    Medici Money

2023

  1. December 21, 2023

    Dawn of Everything

    Monte Carlo

  2. August 31, 2023

    Otherlands

  3. July 11, 2023

    Men Without Work & Nation of Takers

    French Meadow

  4. May 30, 2023

    A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

  5. April 11, 2023

    To Shake the Sleeping Self

2022

  1. December 15, 2022

    Mni Sota Makoce

    Erik's Apartment

  2. September 22, 2022

    Addiction by Design

  3. June 1, 2022

    Aeschylus I & The Florentines

    Only reading "Prometheus Bound" from the Aeschylus I.

  4. April 14, 2022

    Empire of Pain

  5. January 25, 2022

    The Blocksize War

    Zoom

    Special guest: Hector Fernandez

2021

  1. December 15, 2021

    Caste

    Erik's Home

  2. October 12, 2021

    Nature & Walking

    Walk in Woods, Birch's on the Lake

  3. September 1, 2021

    Evicted

    McCoy's Public House

  4. July 30, 2021

    A Man at Arms

    Lake & Irving

  5. June 16, 2021

    Klara and the Sun

    Jamie's House

  6. May 13, 2021

    The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

    Zoom

  7. March 19, 2021

    Running with Sherman

    Zoom

  8. February 19, 2021

    The WEIRDest People in the World

    Zoom

  9. January 7, 2021

    Mama's Last Hug

    Zoom

2020

  1. November 24, 2020

    Unflattening

    Zoom

  2. September 16, 2020

    Bending Adversity

    Zoom

  3. August 13, 2020

    The Rise of Big Data Policing

    Zoom

  4. June 4, 2020

    Benjamin Franklin

    Zoom

  5. April 29, 2020

    Replay

    Zoom

  6. March 25, 2020

    The Roman Republic & The Hundred-Year Marathon

    Zoom

  7. January 31, 2020

    The Master Algorithm & The Nordic Theory of Everything

    December meeting was cancelled at last minute and two books consolidated into January meeting.

2019

  1. November 8, 2019

    Genesis

  2. September 18, 2019

    How to Read a Book

  3. August 15, 2019

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

  4. July 17, 2019

    Educated

  5. June 10, 2019

    Cræft & Growing a Revolution

    Lake & Harriet

  6. January 23, 2019

    Scale

2018

  1. November 20, 2018

    Life After Google

  2. October 1, 2018

    How to Change Your Mind

  3. August 30, 2018

    Freedom™

  4. July 25, 2018

    Collapse

  5. June 6, 2018

    Sapiens

  6. May 9, 2018

    Why We Sleep

  7. March 26, 2018

    Why Buddhism is True

  8. January 24, 2018

    Walkaway

2017

  1. December 22, 2017

    Daemon

    Cafe Alma

  2. October 25, 2017

    A Crack in Creation

    Surly

  3. September 26, 2017

    How to Live

    Lake and Irving

  4. August 24, 2017

    Peak

    Heyday

  5. July 20, 2017

    The Epigenetics Revolution

    Nick's Cabin

  6. June 6, 2017

    Stuff Matters

    Agra Culture

  7. April 24, 2017

    Norse Mythology

    Surly Brewing

  8. March 21, 2017

    All Art Is Propaganda

    Lake & Harriet

  9. February 23, 2017

    The Vital Question

    Lake Monster Brewing

  10. January 17, 2017

    Shadow Elite

    George & The Dragon

2016

  1. December 7, 2016

    Hillbilly Eligy

    Lake & Harriet

  2. September 27, 2016

    Ancillary Justice

  3. August 22, 2016

    The Metaphysical Club

  4. May 2, 2016

    American Nations

  5. March 22, 2016

    The Rise and Fall of American Growth

  6. February 17, 2016

    Elon Musk

2015

  1. December 22, 2015

    Superforecasting

  2. November 25, 2015

    Being Mortal

    Spouses

  3. October 26, 2015

    The World Until Yesterday

  4. August 17, 2015

    Amusing Ourselves to Death

  5. July 22, 2015

    Roadside Picnic

  6. June 15, 2015

    The Innovators

  7. May 4, 2015

    Complexity

  8. April 20, 2015

    No Place to Hide

  9. March 16, 2015

    The Age of Cryptocurrency

  10. January 20, 2015

    The Structure and Dynamics of Networks

2014

  1. December 19, 2014

    Love Sense

    Spouses

  2. November 4, 2014

    Far from the Tree

  3. September 22, 2014

    Far from the Tree

  4. August 26, 2014

    Thinking in Systems

  5. July 21, 2014

    The Everything Store

  6. June 10, 2014

    Antifragile

  7. April 22, 2014

    The Martian

  8. March 13, 2014

    A History of God

  9. January 28, 2014

    Quiet

2013

  1. December 21, 2013

    Powering the Dream

    Spouses

  2. December 2, 2013

    The Emperor of All Maladies

  3. November 5, 2013

    Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  4. September 23, 2013

    This Machine Kills Secrets

  5. August 21, 2013

    The Real North Korea

  6. May 22, 2013

    The Joy of x

  7. April 17, 2013

    The Willpower Instinct

  8. March 12, 2013

    The Signal and the Noise

  9. January 21, 2013

    To Say Nothing of the Dog

2012

  1. December 20, 2012

    Liars and Outliers

    Spouses

  2. November 29, 2012

    Join the Club

  3. October 23, 2012

    Flagrant Conduct

  4. September 25, 2012

    A Canticle for Leibowitz & The Devil in the White City

  5. July 2, 2012

    The Mystery of Banking

  6. May 29, 2012

    Count Zero

  7. April 30, 2012

    Thinking Fast and Slow

  8. March 9, 2012

    The Most Human Human

  9. January 25, 2012

    Republic, Lost

2011

  1. December 14, 2011

    Darwin's Radio

  2. October 17, 2011

    The Selfish Gene

  3. September 13, 2011

    The Checklist Manifesto

  4. July 26, 2011

    Ant Encounters

  5. June 20, 2011

    Never Let Me Go

  6. April 19, 2011

    Triumph of the City

  7. March 2, 2011

    The Master Switch

2010

  1. December 16, 2010

    In a Sunburned Country

    Spouses

  2. November 12, 2010

    Hegemony or Survival

  3. October 7, 2010

    A Distant Mirror

  4. September 2, 2010

    A Distant Mirror

  5. July 21, 2010

    Wetware

  6. June 8, 2010

    Team of Rivals

  7. April 19, 2010

    The Golden Age

  8. March 22, 2010

    Don't Make Me Think

  9. February 16, 2010

    Creating a World without Poverty

  10. January 11, 2010

    Influence

2009

  1. December 2, 2009

    Play

  2. October 19, 2009

    Creativity

  3. September 17, 2009

    Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

  4. August 12, 2009

    The China Study

    Spouses

  5. May 29, 2009

    Honest Signals

  6. April 22, 2009

    Doomsday Book

  7. March 3, 2009

    Money-Driven Medicine

  8. February 4, 2009

    The Nine

2008

  1. December 9, 2008

    The Looming Tower

  2. November 4, 2008

    Traffic

  3. October 5, 2008

    Nudge

  4. August 14, 2008

    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

    Spouses

  5. July 22, 2008

    Shaping Things

  6. May 20, 2008

    The Black Swan

  7. April 14, 2008

    Cheating

  8. March 14, 2008

    How Doctors Think

  9. February 1, 2008

    The World Without Us

2007

  1. December 27, 2007

    Beautiful Evidence

  2. October 29, 2007

    Musicophilia

  3. September 28, 2007

    The Box

  4. July 26, 2007

    Beautiful Code

  5. June 13, 2007

    Watchmen & Understanding Comics

  6. April 29, 2007

    The Mythical Man-Month

  7. March 17, 2007

    Happiness

  8. January 27, 2007

    The Long Tail

  9. January 4, 2007

    The Road

2006

  1. October 30, 2006

    The Omnivore's Dilemma

  2. October 3, 2006

    Stumbling on Happiness

  3. July 29, 2006

    Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

  4. June 30, 2006

    Bowling Alone

  5. May 23, 2006

    Across Realtime

  6. March 22, 2006

    Democratizing Innovation

  7. March 22, 2006

    The Success of Open Source

2005

  1. December 21, 2005

    Beyond Oil

  2. November 24, 2005

    The Search

  3. October 26, 2005

    The Complexity of Cooperation

  4. August 30, 2005

    Freakonomics

  5. June 10, 2005

    The Plot Against America

  6. April 26, 2005

    Hackers and Painters

  7. March 13, 2005

    Free Culture

  8. January 26, 2005

    Divorce Among the Gulls

2004

  1. December 6, 2004

    Sailing Alone Around the Room

  2. October 28, 2004

    The Paradox of Choice

  3. October 18, 2004

    When We Were Orphans

  4. July 7, 2004

    Wisdom of Crowds

  5. May 16, 2004

    Over the Edge of the World

  6. April 15, 2004

    Pompeii

2003

  1. September 26, 2003

    Quicksilver

  2. August 20, 2003

    The Blank Slate

  3. April 28, 2003

    My Tiny Life

  4. April 18, 2003

    The Lexus and the Olive Tree