August 2025 MIT Book Club Update
Updating the Recent News
First, a Request. We're looking for a book for the February gathering. Please send me books you'd be happy to recommend. Here are some criteria that will lead to my selection.
highly rated by Goodreads or LibraryThing
on a highly rated book list
from those members who have a recommendation, the member who has yet to recommend, or has had the least recent book selected.
And a Correction: the October Date, the 15th
August 20: Enigma CURRENT BOOK. There’s still room to sign up Here: https://princeton.alumcommunity.mit.edu/events/133333 Reference: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/843989.Enigma Author: Robert Harris, tags: Fiction, Historical, Espionage
October 15th: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. https://www.librarything.com/work/31578849/book/287672185 Author: Youval Noah Harari, tags: technology, science, history.
December 3rd: N.B. Early Date, Holiday Season — The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/books/review/the-secret-lives-of-numbers-kate-kitagawa-timothy-revell.html Authors: Kitagawa & Revell, tags: science, history, mathematics
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