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Reading Groups

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The Reading Groups review and discuss books chosen by the group for group discussion.

 

Book selections are made on a monthly basis. There are two Reading Groups, each reading a different book. Participation is open to members, associate members, and guests who can participate in one or both groups. Meetings are currently via Zoom

Wednesday Reading Group

(Group B)

 

Meets on 1st Wednesday of every month at 10:30AM, via Zoom

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Monday Reading Group

(Group A)

 

Meets on 3rd Monday of every month at 3PM, via Zoom

Wednesday Reading Group 2025 Final Book List
Wednesday Reading Group
Date
Title
Author
Discussion Leader
Pages
06/2025
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Hampton Sides
Doug Koschik
460
07/2025
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960's
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Bob Maxfield
480
08/2025
The Black Box: Writing the Race
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Roger Timm
304
09/2025
Living with a SEAL
Jesse Itzler
Tom Booth
254
10/2025
Putin's Mafia State: A Story of Corruption, Control, and the Failure of Democracy in Russia
Edited by Leonid Nevzlin; Authors Anonymous
Roger Timm
225
11/2025
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? (A Modern History of Russia)
Karen Dawisha
Roger Timm
591
12/2025
Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
Oliver Bullough
Roger Timm
297
01/2026
A Death in Malta
Paul Caruana Galizia
Pete Mehra
304
02/2026
Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty
Stephen Brumwell  
Swarn Rajpal
384
03/2026
Camera Man
Dana Stevens
Tom Booth
415
04/2026
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Erik Larson
Bob Maxfield
592
05/2026
Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Doug Koschik
650
06/2026
Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World
Stefan Aust & Adrian Geiges
Roger Timm
205
07/2026
The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy
John Zubrzycki 
Swarn Rajpal
288
08/2026
India: A Short History
Andrew Robinson
Roger Timm
276
09/2026
The Guarded Gate
Daniel Okrent
Fred Freeman
498
10/2026
Over Ruled The Human Toll of Too Much Law
Neil Gorsuch & Janie Nitze
Pete Mehra
219
11/2026
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Roger Timm
544
12/2026
Death of a King
Tavis Smiley
Fred Freeman
288
01/2027
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Network from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
Roger Timm
515
02/2027
Blue Jerusalem, British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War
Kit Kowal
Maynard Timm
352
Monday Reading Group
Monday Reading Group 2025 Final Book List
Date
Title
Author
Discussion Leader
Pages
5/19/2025
The Forgotten 500
Gregory Freeman
Gordon Allardyce
6/16/2025
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Ruchir Sharma
Paul Lieberman
7/21/2025
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons of Wealth, Greed and Happiness
Morgan Housel
Bob Stevenson
8/18/2025
The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
Coleman Hughes
George Stern
9/15/2025
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Mov
Frederick Deboer
Paul Lieberman
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