Book Club
A searchable, sortable log of the books we have worked through together over the years.
A few college friends and I started a book club in 2017 as a way to stay close while living in different cities and countries around the world. It was a simple excuse to keep talking to each other as our lives got busy. Eight years on and closing in on 100 books read, it's a commitment that I look forward to every month.
Below is the full list of books we've read to date, along with ratings, summaries, and Goodreads links.
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| Title | Author | Published | Read | Alec's rating | More |
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 Theo of Golden #97 | Allen Levi | 2023 | May 2026 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck #96 | Sophie Elmhirst | 2024 | April 2026 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Killer Angels #95 | Michael Shaara | 1974 | March 2026 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Interne #94 | Yi-Ling Liu | 2026 | February 2026 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Tiny Beautiful Things #93 | Cheryl Strayed | 2012 | January 2026 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Prayers & Poems #92 | Matthew McConaughey | 2025 | December 2025 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
Epictetus #91 | Epictetus | 0 BCE | November 2025 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
 Flowers for Algernon #90 | Daniel Keyes | 1966 | October 2025 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption #89 | Laura Hillenbrand | 2010 | September 2025 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Sunrise on the Reaping #88 | Suzanne Collins | 2025 | August 2025 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
James #87 | Percival Everett | 2024 | July 2025 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World #86 | Jack Weatherford | 2004 | June 2025 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
 The Master and Margarita #85 | Mikhail Bulgakov | 1967 | May 2025 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World #84 | Henry Grabar | 2023 | April 2025 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People #83 | Stephen R. Covey | 1989 | March 2025 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Wright Brothers #82 | David McCullough | 2015 | Februrary 2025 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Lonesome Dove #81 | Larry McMurtry | 1985 | December 2024 - January 2025 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Playground #80 | Richard Powers | 2024 | November 2024 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
 Pride and Prejudice #79 | Jane Austen | 1813 | October 2024 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics #78 | Daniel James Brown | 2013 | September 2024 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Shaq Uncut #77 | Shaquille O'Neal | 2011 | August 2024 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
 The Emperor's Soul #76 | Brandon Sanderson | 2012 | July 2024 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Surely Mr. Feynman You're Joking #75 | Richard Feynman | 1985 | June 2024 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
 Age of Innocence #74 | Edith Wharton | 1920 | May 2024 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
The Milagro Beanfield War #73 | John Nichols | 1974 | April 2024 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
 When I Was Your Age #72 | Kenan Thompson | 2023 | March 2024 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
 Sirens of Titan #71 | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1959 | Februrary 2024 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
 The Jakarta Method #70 | Vincent Bevins | 2020 | January 2024 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Mating in Captivity #69 | Esther Perel | 2006 | December 2023 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Art of Racing in the Rain #68 | Garth Stein | 2008 | November 2023 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
In the Garden of Beasts #67 | Erik Larson | 2011 | October 2023 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
The Sympathizer #66 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015 | September 2023 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Lolita #65 | Vkovladimir Nabo | 1955 | August 2023 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Pale Horseman #64 | Bernard Cornwel | 2006 | July 2023 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
The Last Kingdom #63 | Bernard Cornwel | 2004 | June 2023 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
This is going to hurt #62 | Adam Kay | 2017 | May 2023 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
 Killers of the Flower Moon #61 | David Grann | 2017 | April 2023 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow #60 | Gabrielle Zevin | 2022 | March 2023 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Liar's Poker #59 | Michael Lewis | 1989 | February 2023 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
The River Why #58 | David James Duncan | 1983 | January 2023 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Scott Adams #57 | Scott Adams | 2013 | December 2022 | ★★★★★1/5 | Details |
Memoirs of an Infantry Soldier #56 | Siegfried Sassoon | 1930 | November 2022 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
 If I Had Your Face #55 | Frances Cha | 2020 | October 2022 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto #54 | Michael Pollan | 2008 | September 2022 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The last green valley #53 | Mark T. Sullivan | 2021 | August 2022 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Anthem #52 | Ayn Rand | 1938 | July 2022 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Tokyo vice #51 | Jake Adelstein | 2009 | June 2022 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Project Hail Mary #50 | Andy Weir | 2021 | May 2022 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
The stranger (L'Étranger) #49 | Albert Camus | 1942 | January 2022 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
A Very Punchable Face #48 | Colin Jost | 2020 | March 2022 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Spy and The Traitor #47 | Ben Macintyre | 2018 | Februrary 2022 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Lost Horizon #46 | James Hilton | 1933 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details | |
The God of small things #45 | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | December 2021 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
The Sun Also Rises #44 | Ernest Hemingway | 1926 | November 2021 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage #43 | Alfred Lansing | 1959 | October 2021 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Black Swan: Impact on the highly improbable #42 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 2007 | September 2021 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
Say Nothing #41 | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2018 | July/August 2021 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Do Nothing #40 | Jenny Odell | 2019 | June 2021 | ★★★★★1/5 | Details |
The Innocent Anthropologist #39 | Nigel Barley | 1983 | May 2021 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Educated #38 | Tara Westover | 2018 | April 2021 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Mamba Mentality #37 | Kobe Bryant | 2018 | March 2021 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
7 Years in Tibet #36 | Heinrich Harrer | 1953 | Februrary 2021 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Circe #35 | Madeline Miller | 2018 | January 2021 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Green Lights #34 | Matthew McConaughey | 2020 | December 2020 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #33 | Douglas Adams | 1979 | November 2020 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Power of Habit #32 | Charles Duhigg | 2012 | October 2020 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
The Devil in the White City #31 | Erik Larson | 2003 | September 2020 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Szechuan Peppercorns #30 | Fuchsia Dunlop | 2008 | August 2020 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
A gentleman in moscow #29 | Amor Towles | 2016 | July 2020 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
The boys of summer #28 | Roger Kahn | 1972 | June 2020 | ★★★★★1/5 | Details |
Deal Breaker #27 | Harlan Coben | 1995 | May 2020 | ★★★★★1/5 | Details |
Shadow Divers #26 | Robert Kurson | 2004 | April 2020 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
The Bhagavad Gita #25 | Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa | 400 BCE | March 2020 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
Let My People Go Surfing #24 | Yvon Chouinard | 2005 | Feburary 2020 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Algorithms to Live By #23 | Brian Christian | 2016 | December 2019 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood #22 | Howard Pyle | 1883 | November 2019 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
Clash of Civilizations #21 | Samuel P. Huntington | 1996 | October 2019 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
The Kite Runner #20 | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 | September 2019 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Man's Search for Meaning #19 | Viktor E. Frankl | 1946 | August 2019 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Casino Royale #18 | Ian Fleming | 1953 | July 2019 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Capitalism and Freedom #17 | Milton Friedman | 1962 | June 2019 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia #16 | Mohsin Hamid | 2013 | May 2019 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Bad Blood #15 | John Carreyrou | 2018 | April 2019 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
I don’t Want to Talk About it #14 | Terrence Real | 1997 | March 2019 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
The Return: Fathers Sons and the Land in Between #13 | Hisham Matar | 2016 | Feburary 2019 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Lessons of History #12 | Will Durant | 1968 | January 2019 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Cat's Cradle #11 | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1963 | November 2018 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Kitchen Confidential #10 | Anthony Bourdain | 2000 | October 2018 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Hillbilly Elegy #9 | J.D. Vance | 2016 | March 2018 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Beneath a Scarlet Sky #8 | Mark T. Sullivan | 2017 | July 2018 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Walden #7 | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | June 2018 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
Inferno #6 | Dan Brown | 2013 | August 2018 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Principles #5 | Ray Dalio | 2017 | January 2018 | ★★★★★3/5 | Details |
Guns, Germs, and Steel #4 | Jared Diamond | 1997 | November 2017 | ★★★★★4/5 | Details |
Treasure Island #3 | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | August 2017 | ★★★★★2/5 | Details |
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS #2 | Joby Warrick | 2016 | June 2017 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Born a Crime #1 | Trevor Noah | 2016 | May 2017 | ★★★★★5/5 | Details |
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
Published: 2023
Read: May 2026
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #97
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
Published: 2024
Read: April 2026
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #96
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara
Published: 1974
Read: March 2026
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #95
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Interne
Yi-Ling Liu
Published: 2026
Read: February 2026
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #94
Tiny Beautiful Things
Cheryl Strayed
Published: 2012
Read: January 2026
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #93
Prayers & Poems
Matthew McConaughey
Published: 2025
Read: December 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #92
Epictetus
Epictetus
Published: 0 BCE
Read: November 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #91
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Published: 1966
Read: October 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #90
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
Published: 2010
Read: September 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #89
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
Published: 2025
Read: August 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #88
James
Percival Everett
Published: 2024
Read: July 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #87
Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Published: 2004
Read: June 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #86
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
Published: 1967
Read: May 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #85
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
Published: 2023
Read: April 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #84
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Published: 1989
Read: March 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #83
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
Published: 2015
Read: Februrary 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #82
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Published: 1985
Read: December 2024 - January 2025
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #81
Playground
Richard Powers
Published: 2024
Read: November 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #80
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Published: 1813
Read: October 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #79
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown
Published: 2013
Read: September 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #78
Shaq Uncut
Shaquille O'Neal
Published: 2011
Read: August 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #77
The Emperor's Soul
Brandon Sanderson
Published: 2012
Read: July 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #76
Surely Mr. Feynman You're Joking
Richard Feynman
Published: 1985
Read: June 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #75
Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Published: 1920
Read: May 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #74
The Milagro Beanfield War
John Nichols
Published: 1974
Read: April 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #73
When I Was Your Age
Kenan Thompson
Published: 2023
Read: March 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #72
Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Published: 1959
Read: Februrary 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #71
The Jakarta Method
Vincent Bevins
Published: 2020
Read: January 2024
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #70
Mating in Captivity
Esther Perel
Published: 2006
Read: December 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #69
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Published: 2008
Read: November 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #68
In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson
Published: 2011
Read: October 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #67
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Published: 2015
Read: September 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #66
Lolita
Vkovladimir Nabo
Published: 1955
Read: August 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #65
The Pale Horseman
Bernard Cornwel
Published: 2006
Read: July 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #64
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwel
Published: 2004
Read: June 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #63
This is going to hurt
Adam Kay
Published: 2017
Read: May 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #62
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
Published: 2017
Read: April 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #61
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Published: 2022
Read: March 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #60
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Published: 1989
Read: February 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #59
The River Why
David James Duncan
Published: 1983
Read: January 2023
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #58
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Scott Adams
Scott Adams
Published: 2013
Read: December 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #57
Memoirs of an Infantry Soldier
Siegfried Sassoon
Published: 1930
Read: November 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #56
If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
Published: 2020
Read: October 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #55
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
Published: 2008
Read: September 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #54
The last green valley
Mark T. Sullivan
Published: 2021
Read: August 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #53
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Published: 1938
Read: July 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #52
Tokyo vice
Jake Adelstein
Published: 2009
Read: June 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #51
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Published: 2021
Read: May 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #50
The stranger (L'Étranger)
Albert Camus
Published: 1942
Read: January 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #49
A Very Punchable Face
Colin Jost
Published: 2020
Read: March 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #48
The Spy and The Traitor
Ben Macintyre
Published: 2018
Read: Februrary 2022
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #47
Lost Horizon
James Hilton
Published: 1933
Read:
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #46
The God of small things
Arundhati Roy
Published: 1997
Read: December 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #45
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Published: 1926
Read: November 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #44
Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
Published: 1959
Read: October 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #43
Black Swan: Impact on the highly improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published: 2007
Read: September 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #42
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Published: 2018
Read: July/August 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #41
Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
Published: 2019
Read: June 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #40
The Innocent Anthropologist
Nigel Barley
Published: 1983
Read: May 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #39
Educated
Tara Westover
Published: 2018
Read: April 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #38
Mamba Mentality
Kobe Bryant
Published: 2018
Read: March 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #37
7 Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer
Published: 1953
Read: Februrary 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #36
Circe
Madeline Miller
Published: 2018
Read: January 2021
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #35
Green Lights
Matthew McConaughey
Published: 2020
Read: December 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #34
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Published: 1979
Read: November 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #33
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
Published: 2012
Read: October 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #32
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Published: 2003
Read: September 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #31
Szechuan Peppercorns
Fuchsia Dunlop
Published: 2008
Read: August 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #30
A gentleman in moscow
Amor Towles
Published: 2016
Read: July 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #29
The boys of summer
Roger Kahn
Published: 1972
Read: June 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #28
Deal Breaker
Harlan Coben
Published: 1995
Read: May 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #27
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
Published: 2004
Read: April 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #26
The Bhagavad Gita
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Published: 400 BCE
Read: March 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #25
Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard
Published: 2005
Read: Feburary 2020
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #24
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian
Published: 2016
Read: December 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #23
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle
Published: 1883
Read: November 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #22
Clash of Civilizations
Samuel P. Huntington
Published: 1996
Read: October 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #21
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Published: 2003
Read: September 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #20
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Published: 1946
Read: August 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #19
Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
Published: 1953
Read: July 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #18
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
Published: 1962
Read: June 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #17
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
Published: 2013
Read: May 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #16
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
Published: 2018
Read: April 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #15
I don’t Want to Talk About it
Terrence Real
Published: 1997
Read: March 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #14
The Return: Fathers Sons and the Land in Between
Hisham Matar
Published: 2016
Read: Feburary 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #13
Lessons of History
Will Durant
Published: 1968
Read: January 2019
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #12
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Published: 1963
Read: November 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #11
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
Published: 2000
Read: October 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #10
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
Published: 2016
Read: March 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #9
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Mark T. Sullivan
Published: 2017
Read: July 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #8
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Published: 1854
Read: June 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #7
Inferno
Dan Brown
Published: 2013
Read: August 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #6
Principles
Ray Dalio
Published: 2017
Read: January 2018
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #5
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Published: 1997
Read: November 2017
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #4
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Published: 1883
Read: August 2017
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #3
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick
Published: 2016
Read: June 2017
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #2
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Published: 2016
Read: May 2017
Alec's rating:
Club pick: #1