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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
09/03/2025 | Living with a SEAL
| Jesse Itzler
| Tom Booth
| 254 |
10/05/2025 | 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 |
11/05/2025 | Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? (A Modern History of Russia)
| Karen Dawisha
| Roger Timm
| 591 |
12/03/2025 | Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
| Oliver Bullough
| Roger Timm | 297 |
01/07/2026 | A Death in Malta
| Paul Caruana Galizia
| Pete Mehra
| 304 |
02/04/2026 | Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty
| Stephen Brumwell
| Swarn Rajpal
| 384 |
03/04/2026 | Camera Man
| Dana Stevens
| Tom Booth
| 415 |
04/01/2026 | The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
| Erik Larson
| Bob Maxfield
| 592 |
05/06/2026 | Jerusalem: The Biography
| Simon Sebag Montefiore
| Doug Koschik
| 650 |
06/03/2026 | Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World
| Stefan Aust & Adrian Geiges
| Roger Timm
| 205 |
07/01/2026 | The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy
| John Zubrzycki
| Swarn Rajpal
| 288 |
08/05/2026 | India: A Short History
| Andrew Robinson
| Roger Timm
| 276 |
09/02/2026 | The Guarded Gate
| Daniel Okrent
| Fred Freeman
| 498 |
10/07/2026 | Over Ruled The Human Toll of Too Much Law
| Neil Gorsuch & Janie Nitze
| Pete Mehra
| 219 |
11/04/2026 | Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
| Jonathan Blitzer
| Roger Timm
| 544 |
12/02/2026 | Death of a King
| Tavis Smiley
| Fred Freeman
| 288 |
01/06/2027 | Nexus: A Brief History of Information Network from the Stone Age to AI
| Yuval Noah Harari
| Roger Timm
| 515 |
Monday Reading Group
Monday Reading Group 2025 Final Book List
Date | Title | Author | Discussion Leader | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9/15/2025 | How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement | Frederick deBoer | Paul Lieberman | |
10/20/2025 | The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court and the Battle for Social Justice in the North | Michelle Adams | Gordon Allardyce | |
11/17/2025 | An Immigrant Love Letter to The West | Konstantin Kisin | Rich Koppel | |
12/15/2025 | Love Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star | Mayukh Sen | Bhimsen Rao | |
01/19/2026 | The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism | Paul Kengor | Jim Allen | |
02/16/2026 | The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and The Secret War | Stephen Kinser | Fred Freeman | |
03/16/2026 | Trust | Herman Diaz | Benson Barr | |
04/20/2026 | Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in the Gilded Age of San Francisco | Gary Krist | Swarn Rajpal | |
05/28/2026 | Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World | Jack Weatherford | Tom Booth | |
06/15/2026 | Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn | Christoper Cox | Gordon Allardyce | |
07/20/2026 | The Ghost Soldiers: An Astonishing Story of one of Wartimes Greatest Escapes | Hampton Sides | Doug Koschik | |
08/17/2026 | The Women: A Novel | Kristen Hannah | Bob Maxfield | |
09/21/2026 | How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America | Heather Cox Richardson | Don Haffner | |
10/19/2026 | Truman | David McCullough | Dale Stoy | |
11/16/2026 | I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and The Killing That Shocked the New Nation | Bruce Chadwick | Doug Brown | |
12/21/2026 | Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation | Joseph Ellis | Roger Timm | |
01/18/2027 | The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age | Grans Gunar Bengtsson | Roger Timm |
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