A little light reading.

Curious Reading Club is still pretty new, so we don't have an extremely long list of books we've shared with our members in the past. But here are the books we’ve picked in the past.

 

January 2025
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
Annalee Newitz

“How the nation’s taste for conspiracy theories and disinformation has turned from a weapon deployed by the military into an arsenal used to fight domestic culture wars.”

 

December 2024
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka

“A book that explores how the internet takes an almost infinite landscape of ideas and ends up grinding it up into a kind of creative equivalent of pink slime.”

 

 

November 2024
By The Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight For Justice on Native Land
Rebecca Nagle

“A single crime becomes a locus for a detailed examination of US history, power, and control.”

 

 

October 2024
On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder and Nora Krug

"Lessons from history that help contextualize what's happening today."

 

 

September 2024
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
Nicola Twilley

"Combines history, science and food to show us something new about modern life... a sense of constant discovery and revelation."

 

August 2024
Another Word For Love: A Memoir
Carvell Wallace

"A sweet, savage, optimistic examination of what it means to be human. It is a tremendous, moving piece of work."

 

 

July 2024
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr

"Combines poetic portraits of the ordinary and approachable with a thrilling look at some of the most awe-inspiring sights in the natural world."

 

June 2024
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
Carl Elliott

"Even if they show systems at their worst, people are standing up—and we are here, reading about them, hearing them."

 

May 2024
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham 

"The book starts by looking at a tragedy that happened in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, but it ends up going much further."

 

 

 

 

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