Book balance

• A request from Nancy Hall, which we’ll do our best to respect: More fiction, please. I’d been working on one fiction book every 8 months (1 out of four). To make this work, we’ll need more fiction recommendations. So our new target for fiction will be three out of seven. Not hard and fast, but an objective. Please send your suggestions. These goals remain:

  • 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.

• Our August read, Enigma, a historical fiction set in Bletchley Park, was well received.

• NEXT: 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. Presented by Steven Lentz.

• 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

• February 18th, 2026: James, recently read by the Northern NJ MIT Club. Reviewed: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/07/18/a-story-of-his-own-james-percival-everett/

Links:

• Club of Princeton

• Club of Northern NJ

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