Secular Hub Book Club - Book List

This is a list of books read and discussed by the Secular Hub's Non-fiction Book Club as of Wed, Jan 14, 2026 2:15pm

2026

3-8-26

Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

2-8-26

The Feather Thief by Kirk Johnson

1-11-26

Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bergman

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2025

12-14-25

Winter Break - no book this month.

11-9-25

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Mark Manson

10-12-25

Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria

9-14-25

You're More Powerful Than You Think by Eric Liu

8-19-25

Summer Break - no book

7-13-2025

Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits by James Clear

6-8-25

The House of Wisdom: How Arbic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge by Jim A;-Khaliki

5-11-25

Stolen Pride by Arlie Russel Hochschild

4-13-25

Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movements Ground War to End Democracy by Issac Arnsdorf

3-9-25

Beyond Words: What Animals think and Feel by Carl Safina

2-9-25

The Professor and the Mad Man by Simon Winchester

1-12-25

Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape by Helena Merriman

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2024

12-8-24

Holiday Break

11-10-24

Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions that Changed the World by Roma Agrawal

10-13-24

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

9-8-2024

Scary Smart by Mo Gawdat

8-11-2024

NO BOOK-Summer Break

7-14-2024

Breakfast with Seneca by David R Fedelar

6-9-2024

American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman

5-12-2024

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do by Peter McWilliams

4-14-2024

Up Home: One Girl's Journey by Ruth J. Simmons

3-17-2024

(moved one week back)
Evolution of Beauty by Richard O Prum

2-11-2024

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

1-14-2024

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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2023

12-17-2023

Holiday recess—no meeting

11-12-2023

An Immense World by Ed Yong

10-8-2023

Skinfolk by Matthew Pratt Guteri

9-10-2023

Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly

8-13-2023

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

July 2023

Summer Recess Book Club did not meet

6-11-2023

Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism by Carla Power

5-14-2023

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

4-16-23

Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner

3-12-23

Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind by Kermit Pattison

2-12-23

How Wars Start and How to Stop Them by Barbara F. Walter

1-8-23

Just Mercey: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson2022

12-11-22

How to Change your Mind by Michael Pollan

11-13-22

Strangers in our Own Land by Arlie Russel Hockchild

10-9-22

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

9-11-22

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

8-21-22

Behind the Beautiful Flowers by Katherine Boo

7-10-22

The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel

6-12-22

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

5-8-22

The Man Who Thought He Owned Water by Terphia D'Elgin

4-10-22

The Dictators's Handbook by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alastair Smith

3-13-22

The Beast by Oscar Martinez

2-13-22

The Other Slavery by Andres Resendez

1-9-22

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

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2021

12-12-21

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

11-14-21

The Book the Changed America: How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation by Randall Fuller

10/10/21

Religion for Atheists By Alain de Botton

9/12/21

Metazoa:Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind by Peter Godfrey-Smith

8/8/21

The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens--and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum, 2021

7/12/21

We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Sofran Foer

6/13/21

Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

5/9/21

The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. Wilson

4/11/21

Spying on the South: Travels with Frederick Law Olmsted in a Fractured Land by Tony Horwitz

3/14/21

Educated by Tara Westover

2/14/21

Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan

1/10/21

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

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2020

12/13/20

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

11/8/20

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabelle Wilkerson

10/11/20

The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell

9/13/20

The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen

7/12/20-8/9/20

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

5/10/20-6-14-2020

The Anarchy: The East Indian Company, Corporate Violence and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalyrymple

4/12/20

Improbable Destinies by Jonathan Losos

1/12/20-2/9/20-3/8/20

Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

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2019

12/8/19

The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong

11/10/19

The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu

10/13/19

Dam Nation by Stephan Grace

9/8/19

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

8/11/19

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

7/14/19

Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis

6/9/19

The Workshop and the World by Robert Crease

5/12/19

No book

4/14/19

Sapiens by Yuval Harari

3/10/19

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

2/10/19

The Bonobo and the Atheist by Franz Waal

1/13/19

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt

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2018

12/9/18

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

11/11/18

No meeting

10/14/18

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

9/9/18

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person—perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew each other. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980), p. 279.