Book Club

Choose the book below you would like to read and then discuss at the Book Club Dinner on Jan. 6

 

The PURCHASE links for each book takes you to Bookshop.org which supports local, independent bookstores. You can pre-select your local bookstore that will then get the full profit from all your Bookshop.org purchases (30% of the book’s list price). If you don’t choose a store, your purchase will contribute to a profit pool that is divided among all their participating bookstores. Or shop local and in person at one of your nearby bookstores.

Strong Ground

by Brene Brown (2025)

The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
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The Coming Wave

by Mustafa Suleyman – CEO of Microsoft AI (2025)

An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance.
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They All Came to Barney’s

by Gene Pressman (2025)

From its humble beginnings as a discount shop on Seventh Avenue, Barneys grew into an international phenomenon, setting the tone for fashion not only in New York, but across the country and worldwide. Told with razor-sharp wit and inimitable style, They All Came to Barneys takes us on an insider’s journey as rakish, would-be rocker Gene Pressman and the global fashion industry grew up and came into their own, side by side.

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Lorne:

The Man Who Invented SNL

by Susan Morrison (2025)

Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys—and, essentially, a mystery.

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This is for Everyone:

The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee (2025)

Perhaps the most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of technologist. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, he famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything—transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream, quarrel, and connect.

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The Sirens’ Call

How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes (2025)

We all feel it—the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. Something has changed utterly: For most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, “With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade.” Hayes argues that we are in the midst of a transi­tion whose only parallel is that of labor in the nineteenth century: Attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us.
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Atmosphere:

A Love Story

by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2025)

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

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Careless People

A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025)

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.

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1929

Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History–and How It Shattered a Nation

by Andrew Ross Sorkin (2025)

From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,” (The Atlantic) comes a riveting narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history—one with ripple effects that still shape our society today.
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The Secret of Secrets

by Dan Brown (2025)

Robert Langdon travels to Prague for a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon, a noetic scientist and his new partner. Her soon-to-be-published book on human consciousness threatens long-held beliefs—but when a shocking murder occurs and Katherine vanishes with her manuscript, Langdon is thrust into danger. Hunted by a powerful organization and a mythical-inspired assassin, he races through Prague, London, and New York to find Katherine and uncover a secret project that could redefine the human mind.

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