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February 2026
Meeting Details: Wednesday, Feburary 18, 2026, at 7:30pm at The Tapp (17 N Broadway)
What We Can Know
From the Booker prize–winning, bestselling author of Atonement and Saturday, a genre-bending new novel full of secrets and surprises; an immersive exploration, across time and history, of what can ever be truly known.
What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost.
by Ian McEwan
March 2026
Meeting Details: Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at 7:30pm at The Tapp (17 N Broadway)
Crux
by Gabriel Tallent
Lauded by Gabrielle Zevin, Chris Whitaker, Elizabeth Gilbert, Stephen King, and more.
Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream of a life of adventure.
As the year progresses and adult reality looms, they are rocked by change and pulled apart by irreconcilable obligations. Differences of class, talent, and prospects take on new importance; options dwindle, and their decisions grow ever more consequential and perilous. It feels inevitable, finally, that something must give.
With a magnificent gift for nature writing and a joyful appreciation for the redemptive power of friendship, Gabriel Tallent gives readers a rollicking, adrenaline-filled, and soul-searching novel about risking everything to change your life.
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April 2026
Meeting Details: Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 7:30pm. Location TBD.
Tilt
by Emma Pattee
“Utterly gripping.” —NPR, All Things Considered
Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. With no way to reach her husband, no phone or money, and a city left in chaos, there’s nothing to do but walk.
Making her way across the wreckage of Portland, Annie experiences human desperation and kindness: strangers offering help, a riot at a grocery store, and an unlikely friendship with a young mother. As she walks, Annie reflects on her struggling marriage, her disappointing career, and her anxiety about having a baby. If she can just make it home, she’s determined to change her life.
May 2026
Martin Dressler
by Steven Millhauser
WINNER OF THE 1997 PULITZER PRIZE
Martin Dressler tells of the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as he walks a haunted line between fantasy and reality, madness and ambition, art and industry.
Millhauser is a Transom favorite for his fabulist and speculative short stories that satirize our reality with quick-witted twists of the imagination.
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Meeting Details: Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at 7:30pm at The Tapp (17 N Broadway)
There is No Antimemetics Division
JANUARY 2026
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NOVEMBER 2025
Coffin Moon
Keith Rosson (Fever House) is back with the heart-pounding thrill-ride gothic horror noir vampire revenge thriller you didn’t know you needed, but you’ll be damned glad you read.