Past Books – Guilt Free Book Club

November 2024 – Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage by Anne Lamott
October 2024 – The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
September 2024 – Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
August 2024 – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
July 2024 – The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh Rao
June 2024 – Shōgun by James Clavell
May 2024 – Writing to Learn by William Zinsser
April 2024 – This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
March 2024 – Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
February 2024 – The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
January 2024 – The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
December 2023 – Ishmael: a Novel by Daniel Quinn
November 2023 – Nothing Personal by James Baldwin
October 2023 – What’s Our Problem by Tim Urban
September 2023 – No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
August 2023 – Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
July 2023 – The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
June 2023 – Machines Like Me: A Novel by Ian McEwan
May 2023 – Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
April 2023 – This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin
March 2023 – The Brain Makers: The History of Artificial Intelligence – Genius, Ego, And Greed In The Quest For Machines That Think by HP Newquist
February 2023 – The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
January 2023 – All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein
December 2022 – Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
November 2022 – How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
October 2022 – Endurance by Alfred Lansing
September 2022 – The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
August 2022 – Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr
July 2022 – The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better by Thatcher Wine
June 2022 – A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life by Donald Miller
May 2022 – Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir
April 2022 – Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods by Gary Paul Nabhan
March 2022 – Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
February 2022 – A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
January 2022 – Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
December 2021 – Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman
November 2021 – Dune by Frank Herbert
October 2021 – Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
September 2021 – Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
August 2021 – Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
July 2021 – Cynefin – Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World by Dave Snowden
June 2021 – Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
May 2021 – The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
April 2021 – A book from the Forward series.
March 2021 – Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity by Scott Galloway
February 2021 – The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
January 2020 – Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
December 2020 – Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
November 2020 – An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: A Novel by Hank Green
October 2020 – Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
September 2020 – How Long ’til Black Future Month by N. K. Jemisin
August 2020 – Re-Modeling the Mind: Personality in Balance by Ruth A Johnston
July 2020 – The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas Friedman
June 2020 – Story 10x: Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable by Michael Margolis
May 2020 – (Book Potluck: pick your own book and discuss it with the group)
April 2020 – Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future by Olaf Stapledon
March 2020 – In Defense of Elitism: Why I’m Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn’t Buy This Book by Joel Stein
February 2020 – The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere by Pico Iyer
January 2020 – Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
December 2019 – The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle
November 2019 – How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
October 2019 – Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford
September 2019 – DAEMON by Daniel Suarez
August 2019 – Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies by Edward O. Wilson
July 2019 – Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
June 2019 – Aladdin – A New Translation by Paulo Lemos Horta (Editor), Yasmine Seale (Translator)
May 2019 – The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tomas Nichols
April 2019 – Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
March 2019 – Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment by Francis Fukuyama
February 2019 – The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
January 2019 – Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
December 2018 – (Bring your own food book and potluck dish)
November 2018 – The Girl in the Spider’s Web by David Lagercrantz
October 2018 – Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
September 2018 – I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
August 2018 – Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
July 2018 – American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
June 2018 – Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
May 2018 – Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky
April 2018 – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
March 2018 – Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
January 2018 – The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
December 2017: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
November 2017: Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra AND Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené Brown
October 2017: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick AND Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
September 2017: Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives by Pia Mellody
August 2017: Debt, the First 5000 Years by David Graeber
July 2017: Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story by Randy Olson
June 2017: In a Far Country by Jack London
May 2017: Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
April 2017: Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
March 2017: The Cyber Effect: A Pioneering Cyberpsychologist Explains How Human Behavior Changes Online by Mary Aiken
February 2017: The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream by Courtney Martin
January 2017: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
December 2016: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
November 2016: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
October 2016: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
September 2016: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
August 2016: Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett
July 2016: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
June 2016: Through the looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (and optionally Castle Waiting Volume 1: Lucky Road by Linda Medley)
May 2016: American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
April 2016: Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security by Masanobu Fukuoka
March 2016: The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
February 2016: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
January 2016: Walking by Henry David Thoreau
December 2015: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
November 2015: The Brain by David Eagleman
October 2015: Oh, The Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss

September 2015 and earlier:

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips
David and Goliath by Malcom Gladwell
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
Daring Greatly by Bene Brown
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla by Marc Seifer
Why Not Capitalism? by Jason F. Brennan
Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
Resonate by Nancy Duarte