Book club recap: 2025

Am I posting the book club recap for 2025 in June 2026, six months after I should have? You know it!

• The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin
• Driven: An Autobiography — Larry H. Miller
• The Man Who Broke Napoleon’s Codes — Mark Urban
• James — Percival Everett
• The Pursuit of Happiness — Jeffrey Rosen
• There is Nothing for You Here — Fiona Hill
• The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen

We did about a book every two months. Some of them were pretty long!

It’s the age of AI so I asked Gemini how it would characterize our 2025 selections and this is what it gave me…

This is an intellectually rigorous list focused on mastery, history, and global systems, prioritizing “meaty” narratives over light entertainment. The selections suggest a group that enjoys decoding the world through themes of geopolitics, technical brilliance, and the grit of the individual.

Sounds good to me 🤷‍♂️.