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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
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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