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December January 2026
Change of plans: Antimemetics is SOLD OUT EVERYWHERE. Fresh copies will arrive the week of the December 12th. We will postpone this session so everyone has plenty of time to read it.
Meeting Details: Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at 7:30pm at The Tapp (17 N Broadway)
There is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
There’s a secret government agency who bears the unique responsibility of identifying and controlling mysterious objects that contain the power to make you forget they exist. But what happens when the agency itself starts to forget it exists? A wildly original, metaphysical, speculative, and (ahem) unforgettable sci-fi adventure.
February 2026
Meeting Details: Wednesday, Feburary 18, 2026, at 7:30pm at The Tapp (17 N Broadway)
What Can We 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
Crux
Meeting Details: Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at 7:30pm at The Tapp (17 N Broadway)
by Gabriel Tallent
Pub date: January 20, 2026. 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.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CRUX
“Tender, immersive, and thrilling."
— Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
“Breathtaking.”
—Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colors of the Dark
"I can't remember the last time I cared about fictional characters as desperately as I came to care about the beautiful, hilarious and courageous teenage protagonists of Crux."
—Elizabeth Gilbert
"One of the best novels I’ve ever read about friendship.”
—Stephen King, author of several novels about friendship and murderous clowns