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October 2026

The Rise and Fall of American Growth
by Robert J. Gordon
Economics History
You Can Just Do Things
by Cate Hall, with Sasha Chapin
Psychology & Mind Business & Management
The Biggest Game in Town
by Al Alvarez
Society & Culture Psychology & Mind

Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney
Fiction
Stoner
by John Williams
Fiction

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
Fiction
The Player of Games
by Iain M. Banks
Fiction Politics & Government
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
by Margaret Atwood
Biography & Memoir Society & Culture

Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Fiction
Liberty’s Dawn
by Emma Griffin
History Economics
Insull
by Forrest McDonald
Biography & Memoir Business & Management History
The Day the Universe Changed
by James Burke
History Science & Technology Philosophy
Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
Fiction Philosophy
Candide
by Voltaire
Fiction Philosophy

Playing and Reality
by D. W. Winnicott
Psychology & Mind
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
History Politics & Government Philosophy
Computer Power and Human Reason
by Joseph Weizenbaum
Science & Technology Philosophy

Not the End of the World
by Hannah Ritchie
Climate & Environment Science & Technology
Breakneck
by Dan Wang
Economics Science & Technology
Thinking in Systems
by Donella Meadows
Science & Technology Climate & Environment

The Challenger Launch Decision
by Diane Vaughan
Science & Technology Business & Management Society & Culture
Little Witch Hazel
by Phoebe Wahl
Fiction
The Sabbath
by Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
Religion & Spirituality Philosophy

The Voice That Is Great Within Us
by Hayden Carruth
Society & Culture
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez
Fiction
Ulysses
by James Joyce
Fiction
Hunger
by Roxane Gay
Biography & Memoir Gender & Feminism Health & Medicine

September 2026

The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans
Fiction
Into the Wood Chipper
by Nicholas Enrich
Politics & Government Foreign Policy Health & Medicine
The Infinity Machine
by Sebastian Mallaby
Science & Technology Biography & Memoir Business & Management

The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam
History Politics & Government Foreign Policy
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
Media & Journalism Society & Culture
The Sum of Us
by Heather McGhee
Race & Identity Economics
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcom X, as told to Alex Haley
Biography & Memoir Race & Identity History

Computer Architecture
by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
Science & Technology Education
Positioning
by Al Ries and Jack Trout
Business & Management Psychology & Mind

Country Driving
by Peter Hessler
Society & Culture Economics
From the Soil
by Fei Xiaotong
Society & Culture History
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
Fiction Race & Identity

Why Nothing Works
by Marc J. Dunkelman
Politics & Government Urban Planning & Architecture History
The God Test
by Robert Wright
Science & Technology Religion & Spirituality Foreign Policy

The Prophet
by Isaac Deutscher
Biography & Memoir History Politics & Government
Cheese
by Willem Elsschot
Fiction Business & Management
Quelques mois dans ma vie
by Michel Houellebecq
Biography & Memoir Society & Culture
Extension of the Domain of Struggle (Whatever)
by Michel Houellebecq
Fiction Society & Culture
Serotonin
by Michel Houellebecq
Fiction Society & Culture

January 2024

The Challenger Launch Decision
by Diane Vaughan
Science & Technology Business & Management Society & Culture
The Undoing Project
by Michael Lewis
Psychology & Mind Biography & Memoir
The God Equation
by Michio Kaku
Science & Technology

August 2022

Moral Capital
by Christopher Leslie Brown
History Politics & Government Philosophy
The Precipice
by Toby Ord
Philosophy Science & Technology
The Scout Mindset
by Julia Galef
Psychology & Mind Philosophy

April 2022

Ukraine in Histories and Stories
by Volodymyr Yermolenko
History Foreign Policy Society & Culture
The Gates of Europe
by Serhii Plokhy
History
Lost Kingdom
by Serhii Plokhy
History Foreign Policy
Chernobyl
by Serhii Plokhy
History Science & Technology Politics & Government
Blood of Others
by Rory Finnin
History Society & Culture Race & Identity

August 2026

Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Business & Management Economics History

My Silent War
by Kim Philby
Biography & Memoir History Politics & Government
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
by Will Blythe
Society & Culture Biography & Memoir

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