Schedule & Reading List
Socialization is from 7:00p – 7:30p on meeting nights. Book discussion from 7:30p-until. We meet at my house on Innsbruck Drive, outdoors unless it’s raining (then, garage). We usually wrap up between 10 and 10:30. The Amazon links below are affiliate links and proceeds are used to fill the beer fridge. If you can’t see the links, disable your adblocker for this site (whitelist).
Participation requires 2 commitments: we will make 75%+ of the meetings (8 meetings) and we will read each book in its entirety (2 “grace passes” per year. Without these, our discussion is hindered by the lack of trust and common (reading) vocabulary.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
448 pages; 13:32 audiobook
After struggling to build products on three continents, Apple turned to China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor. It soon deployed thousands of engineers, trained millions of workers, and invested hundreds of billions of dollars to create the most advanced global supply chain. These efforts fueled the iPhone’s dominance—but also laid the foundation for a powerful, state-supported Chinese electronics industry. What began as a business decision evolved into a cautionary tale of global trade, tech rivalry, and national security.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
336 pages; 12:17 audiobook
A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
Andy Greenberg
384 pages; 10:46 audiobook
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely—whether in drug dealing, money laundering, or human trafficking—than their analog counterparts could have ever dreamed of. By transacting not in dollars or pounds but in currencies with anonymous ledgers, overseen by no government, beholden to no bankers, these black marketeers have sought to rob law enforcement of their chief method of cracking down on illicit finance: following the money.
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
Abigail Shrier
320 pages; 8:56 audiobook
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing up. What’s gone wrong with America’s youth?
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution
Amy Coney Barrett
336 pages; 8:46 audiobook
In Listening to the Law, Justice Barrett lays out her role (and daily life) as a justice, touching on everything from her deliberation process to dealing with media scrutiny. With the warmth and clarity that made her a popular law professor, she brings to life the making of the Constitution and explains her approach to interpreting its text. Whether sharing stories of clerking for Justice Scalia or walking readers through prominent cases, she invites readers to wrestle with originalism and to embrace the rich heritage of our Constitution.
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
384 pages; 10:43 audiobook
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy’s friend, the affable Mr. Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society is turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, and love.
Wednesday, August 19, 2026 (NEW DATE)
Lonesome Dove: A Novel
Larry McMurtry
864 pages; 35:49 audiobook
Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember.
Thursday, September 10, 2026
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001
Garrett Graff
512 pages; 15:55 audiobook
Garrett Graff tells the story of the day as it was lived—in the words of those who lived it. Drawing on never-before-published transcripts, declassified documents, original interviews, and oral histories from nearly five hundred government officials, first responders, witnesses, survivors, friends, and family members, he paints the most vivid and human portrait of the September 11 attacks yet.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
The Desecration of Man: How the Rejection of God Degrades Our Humanity Carl Trueman
256 pages; 6:37 audiobook
In The Desecration of Man, Carl Trueman argues that modern man’s crisis of meaning stems from a rejection of a simple fact—that he was made in the image of God. Unmoored from the basic moral fact that secures human dignity, we violently disrespect our own minds and bodies through abortion, pornography, casual sex, gender transitions, and more—and in this disrespect we blaspheme against God himself, with devastating practical and spiritual consequences.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Wednesday, December 9, 2026
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