Nowadays, there are so many good longevity books around, how do you make time to read them? Or decide which ones to put on your reading list to start with?

Luckily, when Adrian (the club's founder) reads a book, he highlights key sentences as he goes along, and lists them with the book's details on the website - sometimes with a mini-review too.

Here's a list of books which have (typically) 101 key points ready for your review - maybe that's all you want from the book, or maybe it will whet your appetite to read it all. Either way, enjoy!

New Methuselahs by John K. Davis

The book goes deep into the ethics of life extension, examining the impact on society and individuals, and takes a look at the moral implications of life extending therapies becoming available to society.

How Not to Age by Michael Greger

Although written like a popular science style healthy lifestyle book, it is crammed full of information. So full that he had to put the 995 pages of citations online!

The Great Age Reboot by Michael Roizen

This is a great book that provides an introduction to ageing research, how it will impact healthcare and lifespans in future and what you can do today to take advantages of those advances.

The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil

There is a lot of fascinating information showing how technology has been growing exponentially for thousands of years (long, long before Moore's Law was ever dreamt up) and how it impacts many aspects of society.

Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan

The Nobel Prize-winning author gives a brief and interesting history to each subject area, to help the reader understand where today's knowledge comes from, before providing a more detailed discussion of our current questions and challenges.

This Book May Save Your Life by Karan Rajan

A light-hearted introduction to how the body works, including plenty of random facts that probably aren't in school text books.

The Longevity Imperative by Andrew Scott

This is a very useful prompt to start considering what impact longer lives will have on us financially, and therefore how our careers and retirement planning could change.

The Future Is Faster Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler

This book examines how converging technologies are transforming business, industries, and our lives and it portrays a realistic outlook on what our world might look like in the not-so-distant future.

The Longevity Code by Kris Verburgh

Although the book’s blurb mentions future technologies, most of the contents is the usual diet and lifestyle information - backed up by proper research - which, to be fair, is still the best approach for those with time to wait.

Outlive by Peter Attia

By longevity (or what he has rebranding as outliving) Peter Attia means in the sense of living longer and living better - as in being in the top 10% of lifespans, not living longer than anyone who has lived before.

The Secret Body by Daniel M. Davis

Author in this book guides the reader through some of the mind-blowing aspects of biology without going into all the complicated details just to show off his academic prowess. So a great introduction to human biology as well as including some fascination facts.

The Age of Scientific Wellness by Leroy Hood and Nathan Price

It’s an interesting history and possible future of precision medicine, describing their hands-on experiences and how they say the field developing.

The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This book covers the history of the discovery of the cell and how it has transformed medicine.

The Death of Death by Jose Cordeiro and David Wood

Initially written in Spanish, this edition is fully updated with the latest scientific progress towards physical Immortality as well as a solid moral defence of why we should all be working towards this goal.

The Case Against Death by Ingemar Patrick Linden

It provides many counter arguments to the, often, immediate and irrational defence of death, which will need to be highlighted regularly to persuade the general public that even if the cure for ageing has not yet arrived it is still worth supporting.

Deep Medicine by Eric Topol

AI may have moved on significantly in 3 years since it was written, but there are still plenty of fascinating insights in his book.

Ageless by Andrew Steele

The author is a strong advocate for curing ageing and is passionate about the cause. In the book he explains what is happening as we age and practical ways we can help slow down the process.

Scythe by Neal Shusterman

A well-woven thriller set in a post-singularity, immortal future - where overpopulation is prevented by human culling. It touches on a few of the concerns about radical life extension, such as boredom and the meaning of life, and how a superintelligence (the Thunderhead) would manage the world efficiently and without human arrogance or self-interest.

Methuselah's Zoo by Steven N. Austad

This book examines long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.

Replacing Aging by Jean Hebert

Author outlines how aging will soon be reversible as a result of the advances in regenerative medicine.

This Book Could Save Your Life by Graham Lawton

From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, this book debunks the fads and explores the real science of better health.

Live Longer with AI by Tina Woods

Tina Woods has interviewed a wide range interesting people involved in the fields of AI, healthcare and longevity – including Alex Zhavoronkov, José Cordeiro, Keith Comito, Anastasia Georgievskaya, Shafi Ahmed and Bertalan Meskó.