Infinite Curiosity
We are friends who read literature together
Find Your Voice: Great books don't hand you easy answers. They ask you to form your own opinions and give you the confidence to voice them.
Search for the Truth: We talk about what these stories really mean to find the universal truths that connect us all.
Share the Search: Reading with a group will connect you with people at the deepest levels. It's also much more fun.
Details
We read 100 pages per week and then meet on video to discuss
We chat on Whatsapp to keep up
We want you to contribute which means you have to read the book
Audible is fine, most of us are listeners
How to participate
Subscribe for updates and reminders
Weekly video chat
We meet once a week to discuss the 100 pages
(Our meeting are currently on Mondays at 630pm CST)
Join the Whatsapp group
Books completed
2025
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky
2001: A Space Odyssey — Arthur C. Clarke
Watchmen — Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
The Missionaries — Owen Stanley
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace (#2)
We Who Wrestle With God — Jordan Peterson
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
2024
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch — Leo Tolstoy
One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
The Old Man and the Sea — Ernest Hemingway
2023
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Peter Pan — J.M. Barrie
Animal Farm — George Orwell
The Trial — Franz Kafka
The Myth of Sisyphus — Albert Camus
The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
Lord of the Flies — William Golding
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again — David Foster Wallace
2022
Walden — Henry David Thoreau
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Screwtape Letters — C.S. Lewis
Fooled By Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Inferno — Dante Alighieri
Tom Sawyer — Mark Twain
The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace (#1)
About
My name is Alex and my curiosity is insatiable.
I am not a lifelong reader, I did terrible in high school, I went to college late in life and I only did OK.
In 2013 I wanted to learn finance and investing and found podcasts. Unfortunately I also realized that podcasts are mostly just entertainment. They go a mile wide and an inch deep.
I started listening to audiobooks and allowed my curiosity to lead. I found an interest in history, science, politics, economics, and lots of philosophy. I began asking questions like:
How does this world really work?
How did our culture get to where it is now?
What does it mean to be a good person, and who decides that?
Everyone seems to be up in arms about politics, who is right? What's the backstory there? Why do we disagree so much?
How do I behave with the most wisdom possible?
Reading these books is one of the most fulfilling things I've ever done and I want to share it with you, but instead of just recommending great books to you I created this group to make it fun and easy.
If you are infinitely curious, enjoy using your brain a little, and are willing to do a some work, this is the right place for you.
Side quest
What book should you read?
People ask me to recommend them books all the time so I created this dynamic workflow made from my ~45 favorite books to help you choose your next read.
(This is something I spent an irresponsible amount of time creating but not directly part of our normal book club)
FAQs
What types of books does Infinite Curiosity read?
We read philosophical literature almost exclusively. We like books that make us think, that make us ask the hardest questions of life, that force us to have opinions and then share those differing opinions with each other.
Why does this group exist??
Literature is the only food that can satisfy a curious soul
How do you choose what books to read?
It's a two step process for book choice
Step 1 - If you attend the final meeting of the current book, you get to vote on the next book. I do this to create skin in the game, the people who participate get to vote and the people who do not participate do not get to vote
Step 2 - The dictator, me, overrides the democratic process and ultimately decides what we read. This prevents new people and people who only show up sometimes from skewing the decision and prevents the group from reading books that they themselves don't show up for.
Thankfully, I'm good at choosing books and a benevolent dictator.
I'm intimidated to join, any advice?
This is incredibly common, and I want to cure you of it.
First, I'm not ignorant to why this happens. We read dense books that are often very long and can be confusing at first.
The reality is the weekly meeting is often provides the most clarity and grounding, I'm confused about books all the time!
I encourage you to come to one of our meetings and find out that we are pleasant folks who just enjoy talking about the world. There is no way to win or fail at this, we just enjoy the process.
There is no risk in trying and unlimited upside.
Does it cost money?
Nope
Who are the other people in the group?
Mostly friends of mine that I have picked up in all sorts of era's of my life.
Are any topics not allowed?
Everything is allowed.
The goal of the group is to engage with our curiosity. If you come here to rant your political or religious opinion at other people you won't have that much fun and you won't get much out of it.
If you share your honest opinion and are eager to hear other people's honest opinions, all will be well. I have not banned anyone yet.