About us
This book club is for people who enjoy reading non-fiction! Let's have fun reading and discussing informative, thought provoking books.
Our goal is to bring like minded individuals together who enjoy learning more about the world and would like to socialize over a good book.
Titles to span diverse subjects like economics, current events, politics, history, science, self-help, biographies, travelogues and memoirs. If it's non- fiction, it qualifies!
We'll meet at restaurants, wine bars, or casual dining spots mostly inside the Loop. New selections for future Meetups are selected at the end of each Meetup. They are based on member suggestions and chosen by popular vote. That means if you want to see a book you love as a featured selection, you need to be present at a Meetup!
Upcoming events
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The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Lives of Nigeria's Romance Scammers
Fratelli's, 1330 Wirt Rd, Houston, TX 77055, USA, Houston, TX, USA New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026
Named a Best Book of the Year So Far by The New Yorker and Vulture
A People Best Book of June | A USA Today Most Anticipated Summer Read
Shortlisted for the Air Mail Tom Wolfe Literary Prize“A nonfiction book which really knocked me out . . . It’s incredible . . . An extraordinary piece of reporting.” ―Patrick Radden Keefe, The Long Game podcast
“What [Barragán has] produced feels miraculous: journalism that is simultaneously funny, devastating, wildly intimate, and righteous without veering into moralism.” ―Kate Knibbs, Wired (Book Club Pick)
An astonishing work of immersion journalism about four young romance scammers in Lagos, Nigeria, exploring how and why they scam, and the moral dilemmas they face.
When his mother started emailing with a handsome American soldier who promised to send gold bars to her Madrid apartment, the journalist Carlos Barragán came face-to-face with the human toll of online romance fraud. After tracing the emails to an IP address in Nigeria, he set off on a journey to Lagos to try to find his mother’s scammer. There, he uncovered a much bigger story: in the midst of Africa’s largest city, he encountered a community of thousands of young men engaged in romance scamming. They call themselves “Yahoo Boys,” and each year they catfish millions of dollars from lonely victims overseas, building a dizzying local economy from their phones.
In this astonishing work of immersion journalism, Barragán takes us inside the lives of four of the Yahoo Boys of Lagos. We meet Biggy and Chibuike, each struggling with the temptations of fast money; Azeez, a tailor’s apprentice caught between the lure of crime and Nigeria’s economic crisis; and Richie, who is convinced that he’s responsible for the death of a woman in Kentucky whom he manipulated online for years. Some Yahoo Boys attain the status of folk heroes, buying houses and cars with the money they make, while others become dependent on drugs and “cash out”―successfully scam a victim―only to lose it all.
Through the Yahoo Boys’ twisting fortunes, Barragán discovers the psychological tactics they perfect, the brutal economic realities that drive them, and the moral dilemmas they confront. A work of radical empathy, The Yahoo Boys reveals the human face behind a global phenomenon, showing how loneliness in the West and poverty in Nigeria are two sides of the same screen.
To learn more or make an Amazon purchase, go to: The Yahoo Boys
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The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic
Salento Bistrot, 2407 Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005, USA, Houston, TX, USAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.
The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?
In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”―how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.
Drawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. What can we learn from the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington, D.C.? How have the legal troubles of a seventeenth-century English knight influenced American attempts at gun control? Why would a European police chief be baffled by the graduation ceremony at any American police academy?
In a sweeping narrative, Gladwell travels from a shooting range in North Carolina, to the South Side of Chicago, to an old plantation house in Alabama, painting a picture of a country that does not understand its most pressing social problem, and as result, does not understand how to fix it.
To learn more or make an Amazon purchase, go to: The American Way of Killing13 attendees
Past events
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