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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.
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Non-fiction
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Fiction
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Non-fiction
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Classic
This month’s book
Previous Books
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