Unsupervised Learning Book Club

A curated reading list from our book club, spanning 2019-2026. We explore topics including philosophy, science fiction, technology, psychology, politics, and leadership.

📚 Statistics

• Books Read: 77
• Years Active: 2019-Present
• Frequency: Monthly selections

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2026

Month	Title	Author
March	A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway
February	The Peripheral	William Gibson
January	1929: The Great Crash	Andrew Ross Sorkin

2025

Month	Title	Author
December	1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in WAll Street History	Andrew Ross Sorkin
November	Murder On The Orient Express	Agatha Christie
October	The Last Unicorn	Peter S. Beagle
September	Quantum in Pictures	Bob Coecke & Stefano Gogioso
August	The Enchiridion	Epictetus
July	The Kaiju Preservation Society	John Scalzi
June	Material World	Ed Conway
May	The Dharma Bums	Jack Kerouac
April	The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West	Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
March	1984	George Orwell
March	Animal Farm	George Orwell
February	House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company	Eva Dou
January	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde

2024

Month	Title	Author
December	The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson
November	Quality Land	Mark-Uwe Kling
October	The Republic	Plato
September	Nexus	Yuval Noah Harari
August	#1 in Customer Services: The Complete Adventures of Tom Stranger	Larry Correia
July	Bullshit Jobs: A Theory	David Graeber
June	Children of Time	Adrian Tchaikovsky
May	Swann's Way	Marcel Proust (translated by Lydia Davis)
April	The Courage to Be Disliked	Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
March	Stride Toward Freedom	Martin Luther King, Jr.
February	The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life	Robert Fritz
January	Tempest Tost (Salterton Trilogy, Book 1)	Robertson Davies

2023

Month	Title	Author
December	Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will	Robert M. Sapolsky
November	The Fall	Albert Camus
October	Man's Search for Meaning	Viktor E. Frankl
September	Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
August	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business	Neil Postman
July	It Can't Happen Here	Sinclair Lewis
June	A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller Jr.
May	The Chip War: The Battle for the World of Tomorrow	Chris Miller
April	Player Piano	Kurt Vonnegut
March	Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life	Jill Bolte Taylor
February	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville
January	Moby-Dick	Herman Melville (continued)

2022

Month	Title	Author
December	Ram: Scion of Ikshvaku	Amish Tripathi
November	The Science of Storytelling	Will Storr
October	Neuromancer	William Gibson
September	The War of Art	Steven Pressfield
September	Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be	(author not specified)
August	In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy, Vol. 1	Eugene Thacker
June–July	The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life	David Brooks
May	The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma	Gurcharan Das
April	The Three-Body Problem	Liu Cixin
March	Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe
February	The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age	James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
January	Project Hail Mary	Andy Weir

2021

Month	Title	Author
December	Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters	Richard Rumelt
November	The Design of Everyday Things	Don Norman
October	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
September	The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal.	Evan Ratliff
August	Dune	Frank Herbert
July	The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower	Michael Pillsbury
June	Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card
May	The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature	Matt Ridley
April	The Island of Dr. Moreau	H.G. Wells
March	We Are Legion (We Are Bob)	Dennis E. Taylor
February	Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	Max Tegmark
January	Homeland	Cory Doctorow

2020

Month	Title	Author
November	Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art	James Nestor
October	Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness	Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
September	The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again	Robert D. Putnam
August	Old Man's War	John Scalzi
July	Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution	P. W. Singer & August Cole
March	Applied Critical Thinking Handbook	(author not specified)
February	Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress	Steven Pinker

2019

Month	Title	Author
December	The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism	Shoshana Zuboff
November	The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism	Shoshana Zuboff (continued)
October	Little Brother	Cory Doctorow
September	Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions	Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
August	Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World	David Epstein
July	Consciousness	Annaka Harris

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This reading list represents a journey through contemporary and classic literature, focusing on works that challenge thinking about technology, society, human nature, and the future.

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