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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
Monday Reading Group
(Group A)
Meets on 3rd Monday of every month at 3PM, via Zoom
Wednesday Reading Group 2024 Final Book List
Wednesday Reading Group
Date | Title | Author | Discussion Leader | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
7/5/2023 | The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II | Buzz Bissinger | Bob Maxfield | 480 |
8/2/2023 | The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt | T. J. Stiles | Jim Zyla | 562 |
9/6/2023 | Code Name: Lise: The True Story
of the Woman Who Became
WWII's Most Highly Decorated
Spy
| Larry Loftis | Roger Timm | 385 |
10/4/2023 | Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding
Father Who Healed a Wounded
Nation | Harlow Unger | Paul Lieberman | 282 |
11/1/2023 | Myth America: Historians Take
On the Biggest Legends and Lies
About Our Past | Kevin Kruse & Julien Zeitzer | Roger Timm | 476 |
12/6/2023 | The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret
Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and
Churchill | Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch | Bill Price | 386 |
1/3/2024 | The Men Who Built the
Transcontinental Railroad | Stephen Ambrose | Gordon Allardyce | 382 |
2/7/2024 | On Desperate Ground: The
Marines at The Reservoir, the
Korean War's Greatest Battle | Hampton Sides | Roger Timm | 371 |
3/6/2024 | The Ambassador: Joseph P.
Kennedy at the Court of St.
James's 1938-1940 | Susan Ronald | Fred Freeman | 447 |
4/3/2024 | All the Broken Places | John Boyle | Bob Maxfield | 400 |
5/1/2024 | City of Fortune: How Venice
Ruled the Seas | Roger Crowley | Paul Lieberman | 473 |
6/5/2024 | The 1619 Project: A New Origins
Story | Nikole Hanna-Jones | Ashok Gupka | 480 |
7/10/2024 | And There was Light: Abraham
Lincoln and the American
Struggle
| John Meacham | Bob Maxfield | 720 |
8/1/2024 | The Luck of the Draw: My Story
of the Air War in Europe | Frank Murphy | Bill Price | 466 |
9/4/2024 | The Pentagon's Brain: An
Uncensored History of DARPA,
America's Top-Secret Military
Research Agency | Annie Jacobsen | Roger Timm | 577 |
10/2/2024 | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | Swarn Rajpal | 400 |
11/6/2024 | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln
and American Slavery | Eric Foner | Roger Timm | 465 |
12/4/2024 | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of
the Lusitania | Eric Larson | Bill Price | 480 |
1/8/2025 | Better Times Than These: A novel | Winston Groom | Fred Freeman | 411 |
2/5/2025 | Classified: The Untold Story of
Racial Classification in America | David Bernstein | Gordon Allardyce | 186 |
Monday Reading Group
Monday Reading Group 2024 Final Book List
Date | Title | Author | Discussion Leader | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
7/17/2023 | Meltdown in Tibet | Michael Buckley | Swarn Rajpal | |
8/21/2023 | Bismarck: A Life | Jonathan Steinberg | Roger Timm | |
9/18/2023 | My Autobiography | Charlie Chaplin | George Stern | |
10/16/2023 | When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm | Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe | Bob Stevenson | |
11/20/2023 | The Living Reed | Pearl S. Buck | Don Haffner | |
12/18/2023 | Eli Wiesel: Confronting the Silence | Joseph Berger | Bob Frank | |
1/15/2024 | Victory City | Salman Rushdi | Swarn Rajpal | |
2/19/2024 | South to Freedom | Alice L. Baugartner | Don Haffner | |
3/18/2024 | A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law-Olmstead and America in the 19th Century | Witold Rybezyki | Tom Booth | |
4/15/2024 | The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help us all Prosper | Paul Sheard | Gordon Allardyce | |
5/20/2024 | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann | Bill Price | |
6/17/2024 | Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution | Mike Duncan | Jon Haber | |
7/15/2024 | The Innocent Man | John Grisham | George Stern | |
8/19/2024 | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin | Bob Maxfield | |
9/16/2024 | John Adams | David McCullough | Roger Timm |
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