Book Club

The Club meets on the eve of the American election to discuss this blunt warning of threats to American democracy […]

December 7:David Reich, Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human […]

Book Club: Jan 4, Olga Tokarczuk, Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead Chair:  Linda Hutcheon Touted as […]

Book Club: Feb 1, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf, Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of […]

Book Club: April 6, 2021 at 2:00pm-4:00pm: Thomas King - Green Grass, Running Water - Fellows & External Fellows Only […]

Book Club: May 3, 2021 at 1:00pm-3:00pm: Edward Glaeser - The Triumph of the City - For Fellows and External […]

Book Club: June 7, 2021: James Robert Brown - Who Rules in Science? An Opiniated Guide to the Wars - […]

Book Club: Jul 5, 2021: Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other Chair: Linda Hutcheon Joint winner (with Atwood’s The Testaments) […]

Book Club: Aug 3, 2021: Northrop Frye - The Educated Imagination Tuesday, August 3 (because of holiday weekend): a classic! […]

Tuesday, September 7 (because of holiday weekend) Among New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019, the top 10 Best […]

Book Club October 4, 2021, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only Walter Isaacson, The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, […]

Book Club November 1, 2021, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, A […]

Book Club December 6, 2021, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only Max and Monique Nemni,Young Trudeau, 1919-1944: Son […]

Tuesday, January 4th (because of New Year holiday) Richard Wrangham, The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence […]

Book Club February 7, 2022, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only   Mary Shelley,  Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus […]

Book Club March 7, 2022, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our […]

Book Club April 4, 2022, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only Sue Roe, In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse, and […]

Book Club July 4, 2022, at 2-4pm – Fellows & External Fellows Only Steven Price, Lampedusa (326 pp, available in […]

April 3, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog (1967) (afterword by Annie […]

September 12, 2022, 2-4pm - Fellows and External Fellows Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935) Discussion Leader:  Germaine Warkentin This distinguished and […]

October 3, 2022, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) Discussion Leader: Lisa […]

December 5, 2022, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows  Yasha Mounk, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and […]

January 9, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet (also published as Hamnet and Judith) (2021) Discussion […]

February 6, 2023, 2-4pm - Fellows and External Fellows  Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History (2000) Discussion Leader: […]

March 6, 2021, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Scott Weidensaul, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of […]

May 1, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual […]

June 5, 2023, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying […]

July 3, 2023, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532) Discussion Leader: David Milne      […]

Book Club: September 11, 2023, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows - Zoom only.  David Graeber and David Wengrow, […]

Book Club: October 2, 2023, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows - Zoom only.  Tom Stoppard, Arcadia (1993) Discussion […]

November 6, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) Discussion Leader: Sara […]

December 4, 2023, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Jennifer Raff, Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (2022) Discussion […]

January 8, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Kevin Rudd, The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict […]

February 12, 2024, 2-4pm - Fellows and External Fellows Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief (1999) Discussion Leader: Meg Fox The […]

March 4, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden […]

April  1, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows  William Carlsen, Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. […]

May 6, 2024, 2-4pm – Fellows and External Fellows  Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine […]

June 3, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk (2014) Discussion leader: Peter Alberti […]

July 8, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century […]

September 9, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood (2016) Discussion Leader: Linda Hutcheon A modern […]

October 7, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot […]

November 4, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise […]

December 2, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Culture: The Story of Us from Cave-Art to K Pop by Martin […]

January 6, 2024, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (2015) Discussion Leader: Meg Fox André […]

February 3 2025, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists who Unlocked the Mysteries of […]

March 3 2025, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash (2023) […]

April 7, 2025, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) Discussion Leader: Molly […]

May 5, 2025, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows The Odyssey by Homer, in the new poetic translation by Emily […]

June 2, 2025, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows The Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas […]

July 7, 2025, 2-4pm, - Fellows and External Fellows The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn […]

September 8, 2025, 2-4 pm - Fellows and External Fellows James by Percival Everett (2024) Discussion Leader: Meg Fox “With […]

October 6, 2025, 2-4 pm - Fellows and External Fellows Fire Weather by John Vaillant (2023) Discussion Leader: Susan Pfeiffer […]

November 3, 2025, 2-4 pm - Fellows and External Fellows Autocracy Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World […]

December 1, 2025, 2-4 pm - Fellows and External Fellows - Zoom only event Orbital by Samantha Harvey (2023) Discussion […]

January 5, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows                                 ChatGPT and the Future of AI by Terrence J. Sejnowski […]

February 2, 2026, 2-4 pm - Fellows and External Fellows The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler […]

March 2, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (2017) Discussion Leader: […]

April 6, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made […]

May 4, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962) Discussion Leader: Sara Shettleworth […]

June 1, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and the Battle for the Future […]

July 6, 2026, 2-4 pm - Fellows and External Fellows The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean, by […]