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The UL Book Club

We have the UL book club the last Sunday of every month at 2PM Pacific / 5PM Eastern. We alternate our book selections in four phases that expose us to two parts non-fiction and 1 part each of fiction and classics, using the following cadence.

1. Non-fiction

2. Fiction

3. Non-fiction

4. Classic

This month’s book

The book for September 2024 is Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.

Previous Books

August 2024 “#1 in Customer Services: The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger” by Larry Correia

July 2024 “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory” by David Graeber

June 2024 “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky

May 2024 “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust (translated by Lydia Davis)

April 2024 - “The Courage to be Disliked” by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

March 2024 “Stride Toward Freedom” by Martin Luther King, Jr

February 2024 “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life” by Robert Fritz

January 2024 “Tempest Tost” (Salterton Trilogy Book 1) by Robertson Davies

December 2023 “Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will” by Robert M. Sapolsky

November 2023 “The Fall” by Albert Camus

October 2023 “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl

September 2023 Brave New World by Aldous Hudley

August 2023 “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business” by Neil Postman

July 2023 “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis

June 2023 "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller Jr.

May 2023 "The Chip War: The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Chris Miller

April 2023 "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut

March 2023 "Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life" by Jill Bolte Taylor

February 2023 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville

January 2023 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville

December 2022 "Ram - Scion of Ikshvaku" by Amish Tripathi

November 2022 "The Science of Storytelling" by Will Storr

October 2022 "Neuromancer" by William Gibson

September 2022 "The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles" by Steven Pressfield & "Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be" (Author not specified)

August 2022 "In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol. 1" by Eugene Thacker

June/July 2022 "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life" by David Brooks

May 2022 "The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma" by Gurcharan Das

April 2022 "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin

March 2022 "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

February 2022 "The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age" by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg

January 2022 "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir

December 2021 "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters" by Richard Rumelt

November 2021 "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman

October 2021 "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

September 2021 "The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal." by Evan Ratliff

August 2021 "Dune" by Frank Herbert

July 2021 "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower" by Michael Pillsbury

June 2021 "Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card

May 2021 "The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature" by Matt Ridley

April 2021 "The Island of Dr. Moreau" by H.G. Wells

March 2021 "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)" by Dennis E. Taylor

February 2021 "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Max Tegmark

January 2021 "Homeland" by Cory Doctorow

November 2020 "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" by James Nestor

October 2020 "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" by Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

September 2020 "The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again" by Robert D. Putnam

August 2020 "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi

July 2020 "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution" by P. W. Singer & August Cole

March 2020 "Applied Critical Thinking Handbook" (Author not specified)

February 2020 "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" by Steven Pinker

December 2019 "The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff

November 2019 "The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff

October 2019 "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow

September 2019 "Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions" by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

August 2019 "Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" by David Epstein

July 2019 "Consciousness" by Annaka Harris

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