Online: Science Book Sampler discussion

Let's hold another book sampling session -- bring stuff you've read and can recommend!

Here's the Google Doc with past suggestions.

For our Book Sampling, think of 1-3 science-related books you've read that might be of interest to the group. We'll go around the group, and each person will present a book at a time: why would we enjoy it? Why did you like it? That will probably spark everyone else's memories of related titles, so we might chat about them for a while. Everyone will hopefully come away from the meeting with a bunch of new titles on our reading lists.

The rules:

• Books should be at least science- or medicine-adjacent. You decide what that means to you.
• Books can be fiction or non-fiction, even though we've never read a fiction title in the club.
• Books can date from any year, even though the club usually sticks to books written in the last decade.
• You don't need to have read the book recently; it can be your favorite book from childhood, something you read in college, or a new book.
• Don't present your own writing; this is for books you've read!
• It's OK if you don't have any books to present and just want to sit in the audience.

Our 2026 Book Selection meeting will follow immediately afterwards. You don't have to attend both events; feel free to show up at 8pm Eastern for the selection discussion!

Artwork by Sacha Ravendra (https://linktr.ee/sacharavenda). The characters are, from left to right: astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an unnamed robot, astronaut Mae Jemison, and chemist Marie Curie.