--- title: "AI Book Club: Every book we’ve read" description: "Every book the [AI Book Club](/ai-book-club/) has read, plus what" canonical_url: https://idratherbewriting.com/ai-book-club-books/ --- # AI Book Club: Every book we’ve read Every book the [AI Book Club](/ai-book-club/) has read, plus what’s coming up. Click any cover to jump to that book’s discussion — the recording, notes, and takeaways from the meeting. For the full schedule with summaries and meeting links, see the [main book club page](/ai-book-club/). ## Books we’ve discussed - [![Cover of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/i-am-robot-book.png) I Am Not a Robot Joanna Stern Sep 20, 2026](/blog/book-club-stern-i-am-not-a-robot) - [![Cover of The Maniac](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/themaniac.jpg) The Maniac Benjamin Labatut Aug 16, 2026](/blog/the-maniac-labatut-ai-book-club) - [![Cover of The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/infinity-machine.jpg) The Infinity Machine Sebastian Mallaby June 28, 2026](/blog/book-club-infinity-machine-mallaby) - [![Cover of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/life30thumb.png) Life 3.0 Max Tegmark May 17, 2026](/blog/book-club-tegmark-life-3-0) - [![Cover of Breakneck: China](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/breakneck.png) Breakneck Dan Wang Apr 19, 2026](/blog/book-club-breakneck-china-wang) - [![Cover of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/if-anyone-builds-it-book-club.png) If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares Mar 15, 2026](/blog/ai-book-club-if-anyone-builds-it) - [![Cover of Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/careless-people.png) Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams Feb 15, 2026](/blog/careless-people-wynn-williams-ai-book-club) - [![Cover of God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/godhuman_aibookclub.png) God, Human, Animal, Machine Meghan O'Gieblyn Jan 18, 2026](/blog/ai-book-club-god-human-animal-machine) - [![Cover of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/cointelligence_aibookclub.png) Co-Intelligence Ethan Mollick Dec 14, 2025](/blog/co-intelligence-mollick-book-club) - [![Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/nexus_aibookclub.png) Nexus Yuval Noah Harari Nov 16, 2025](/blog/nexus-harari-ai-book-club) - [![Cover of Hands-On Large Language Models: Language Understanding and Generation](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/handsonllms.png) Hands-On Large Language Models Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst Oct 19, 2025](/blog/book-club-hands-on-llms) - [![Cover of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/empireofaithumb.png) Empire of AI Karen Hao Sep 21, 2025](/blog/book-club-empire-of-ai) - [![Cover of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/aisuperpowers_aibookclub.png) AI Superpowers Kai-Fu Lee Aug 17, 2025](/blog/book-club-lee-ai-superpowers) - [![Cover of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/supremacy_aibookclub.png) Supremacy Parmy Olson Jul 20, 2025](/blog/olson-supremacy-dreams-capitalism) - [![Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/singularity_aibookclub.png) The Singularity Is Nearer Ray Kurzweil Jun 15, 2025](/blog/kurzweil-singularity-ai-book-club-recording-notes#book-club-meeting-recording) - [![Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/comingwave_aibookclub.png) The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman May 18, 2025](/blog/suleyman-the-coming-wave-notes) - [![Cover of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/morethanwords_aibookclub.png) More Than Words John Warner Apr 20, 2025](/blog/warner-book-more-than-words-notes) ## Coming up These haven’t met yet, so the covers link to the book itself. Meeting details are on the [main book club page](/ai-book-club/). - [![Cover of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/projectmaven.png) Project Maven Beth Simone Noveck Oct 18, 2026](https://www.amazon.com/Project-Maven-Marine-Colonel-Warfare/dp/1324123311) - [![Cover of The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/agi_chronicles.png) The AGI Chronicles Kevin Roose Nov 15, 2026](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374618755) - [![Cover of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/prophecy_veliz.jpg) Prophecy Carissa Véliz Dec 20, 2026](https://www.amazon.com/Prophecy-Prediction-Future-Ancient-Oracles/dp/0385550979) - [![Cover of Culpability: A Novel](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/culpability_holsinger.jpg) Culpability Bruce Holsinger Jan 17, 2027](https://www.amazon.com/Culpability-Novel-Bruce-Holsinger/dp/1954118961) Want to join us for one of these? 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