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See our 2026 reading list and explore the books we’ve read together.
A year of new perspectives.
The 2026 selections, chosen by the club. Selection months and meeting dates can differ.
JanuaryReductionism in Art and Brain Science
Eric R. Kandel
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FebruaryThe Social Brain
Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey and Robin Dunbar
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MarchGray Matters
Theodore H. Schwartz
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AprilHow We Learn
Stanislas Dehaene
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MayMadness and Memory
Stanley B. Prusiner
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JunePsych
Paul Bloom
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JulyMother Brain
Chelsea Conaboy
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AugustThe Emergent Mind
Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland
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SeptemberThe Inflamed Mind
Edward Bullmore
Read report ↗October · Now readingA Brief History of Intelligence
Max Bennett
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NovemberA Molecule Away from Madness
Sara Manning Peskin
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DecemberBeing You
Anil Seth
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The Inflamed Mind
The club’s summary and discussion notes, in a consistent reading and print format.
Read reportMother Brain
August 4, 2026
Madness and Memory
May 29, 2026
Gray Matters
March 31, 2026
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97 books
December 2026
Being You
Anil Seth
No report yetNovember 2026
A Molecule Away from Madness
Sara Manning Peskin
No report yetOctober 2026
A Brief History of Intelligence
Max Bennett
No report yetSeptember 2026
The Inflamed Mind
Edward Bullmore
Read report ↗August 2026
The Emergent Mind
Gaurav Suri and Jay McClelland
No report yetJuly 2026
Mother Brain
Chelsea Conaboy
Read report ↗June 2026
Psych
Paul Bloom
No report yetMay 2026
Madness and Memory
Stanley B. Prusiner
Read report ↗April 2026
How We Learn
Stanislas Dehaene
No report yetMarch 2026
Gray Matters
Theodore H. Schwartz
Read report ↗February 2026
The Social Brain
Tracey Camilleri, Samantha Rockey and Robin Dunbar
No report yetJanuary 2026
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Eric R. Kandel
Read report ↗November 2025
Behave
Robert Sapolsky
Read report ↗October 2025
How Emotions are Made
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Read report ↗September 2025
Mindsight
No report yetAugust 2025
Sociopath
Patric Gagne
Read report ↗July 2025
Innate
Kevin Mitchell
Read report ↗June 2025
The Power of Strangers
No report yetMay 2025
Sentience
No report yetApril 2025
How Not to Study a Disease
Karl Herrup
Read report ↗March 2025
Wired for Love
Stephanie Cacioppo
Read report ↗February 2025
Why We Love
Helen Fisher
Read report ↗January 2025
Your Brain is a Time Machine
No report yetDecember 2024
Determined
Robert M. Sapolsky
Read report ↗November 2024
An Immense World
Ed Yong
Read report ↗October 2024
Never Enough
Judith Grisel
Read report ↗September 2024
Different
Frans de Waal
Read report ↗August 2024
Healing
Thomas Insel
Read report ↗July 2024
Foolproof
Sander van der Linden
Read report ↗June 2024
The Illusionist Brain
Jordi Camí and Luis M. Martínez
Read report ↗May 2024
The Chaos Machine
Max Fisher
Read report ↗April 2024
The Battle for Your Brain
Nita A. Farahany
Read report ↗March 2024
The Goodness Paradox
Richard Wrangham
Read report ↗February 2024
Survival of the Friendliest
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Read report ↗January 2024
Blueprint
Robert Plomin
Read report ↗December 2023
The Good Life
Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
Read report ↗November 2023
The Grieving Brain
Mary Frances O’Connor
Read report ↗September 2023
Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin
Read report ↗August 2023
The Nocturnal Brain
Guy Leschziner
Read report ↗July 2023
Dark and Magical Places
Christopher Kemp
Read report ↗June 2023
Incognito
David Eagleman
Read report ↗May 2023
See What I'm Saying
Lawrence D. Rosenblum
Read report ↗April 2023
Altered Traits
Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson
Read report ↗March 2023
An Anatomy of Pain
Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
Read report ↗February 2023
The Political Mind
George Lakoff
Read report ↗January 2023
Metazoa
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Read report ↗December 2022
The Problem of Alzheimer's
Jason Karlawish
Read report ↗November 2022
Kindred
Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Read report ↗October 2022
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
Read report ↗September 2022
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Carl Hart
Read report ↗August 2022
Models of the Mind
Grace Lindsay
No report yetJuly 2022
Biased
Jennifer Eberhardt
Read report ↗June 2022
Wired for Story
Lisa Cron
Read report ↗May 2022
The Idea of the Brain
Matthew Cobb
Read report ↗April 2022
The Angel and the Assassin
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Read report ↗March 2022
In Search of Memory
Eric Kandel
Read report ↗February 2022
The Brain from Inside Out
György Buzsáki
Read report ↗January 2022
The Patterning Instinct
Jeremy Lent
Read report ↗December 2021
The Spike
Mark Humphries
Read report ↗November 2021
Remember
Lisa Genova
Read report ↗October 2021
Projections
Karl Deisseroth
Read report ↗September 2021
Nose Dive
Harold McGee
Read report ↗August 2021
A Thousand Brains
Jeff Hawkins
Read report ↗July 2021
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
Read report ↗June 2021
Archeology of the Mind
Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven
Read report ↗May 2021
Moral Tribes
Joshua Greene
Read report ↗April 2021
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy
Deb Dana
No report yetMarch 2021
DMT
Rick Strassman
Read report ↗February 2021
Spark
John Ratey
Read report ↗January 2021
The Age of Insight
Eric Kandel
Read report ↗December 2020
The Mind's Own Physician
Zara Houshmand, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Richard Davidson
No report yetNovember 2020
Honeybee Democracy
Thomas Seeley
Read report ↗October 2020
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf
No report yet2019-2020 selections
The Tangled Tree
David Quammen
No report yet2019-2020 selections
The Genius of Birds
Jennifer Ackerman
No report yet2019-2020 selections
The Feeling of Life Itself
Christof Koch
No report yet2019-2020 selections
The Disordered Mind
Eric R. Kandel
No report yet2019-2020 selections
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
No report yet2019-2020 selections
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
No report yet2019-2020 selections
My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor
No report yet2019-2020 selections
How to Change your Mind
Michael Pollan
No report yet2019-2020 selections
Hit Makers
Derek Thompson
No report yet2019-2020 selections
Gender and Our Brains
Gina Rippon
No report yet2019-2020 selections
Apprentice to Genius
Robert Kanigel
No report yet2019-2020 selections
Can't Just Stop
Sharon Begley
Read report ↗Original selections · 2018-2019
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
The trouble with testosterone
Robert Sapolsky
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
The Third Chimpanzee
Jared Diamond
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
The Strange Order of Things
Antonio Damasio
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
The Happiness Hypothesis
Jonathan Haidt
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
The Brain's Way of Healing
Norman Doidge
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Frans de Waal
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
In Pursuit of Memory
Joseph Jebelli
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
From Bacteria to Bach and Back
Daniel Dennett
No report yetOriginal selections · 2018-2019
Aroused
Randi Hutter Epstein
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