Book Group
To get the year going, the members submit their suggestions for books during October and Book Group members vote on 6 fiction and 6 non-fiction books for the year. The selections invariably reflect the extremely varied interests within the group and expose many of us to books we would never have otherwise read. As the adage goes, “Books follow you home, pry open your head, and rearrange the things inside.”
If you like to read and have lively discussions about the books you have read, you should think about joining our group. If you are interested, please contact our chairman, Ron Rizzo, at ronbrizzo@gmail.com. We meet at 10:30 AM on the first Tuesday of each month at:
Round Table Pizza
2960 Treat Boulevard
Concord, CA
Chairman: Ron Rizzo
ronbrizzo@gmail.com
925/676-0286
Asst. Chairman – Phil Trapp
prtrapp@sbcglobal.net
For 2025 we will be reading the following books:
|
Book Meeting Date |
Fiction/Non |
Author |
Title |
Researcher |
|
February |
NF |
Rachel Maddow |
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism |
Ron Rizzo |
|
March |
F |
Patrick O’Brien |
Master and Commander |
Bill Adler |
|
April |
NF |
Nick Lloyd |
The Eastern Front: The History of the Great War 1914-1918 |
Zoltan Saary |
|
May |
F |
James McBride |
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store |
Larry McEwen |
|
June |
NF |
Brian Kilmeade |
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution |
Nat Bitton |
|
July |
F |
Percival Everett |
James |
Jim Sowell |
|
August |
NF |
McKenzie Funk |
The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives |
Steve Greene |
|
September |
F |
Walter Mosely |
Down the River unto the Sea |
Phil Trapp |
|
October |
NF |
Stephen Kinzer |
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire |
Carl Ludwig |
|
November |
F |
Joseph Heller |
Catch-22 |
Bill Espey |
|
December |
NF |
Stephen Ambrose |
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad |
Tom Doll |
|
January 2026 |
F |
Ross MacDonald |
The Chill |
Ron Cassano |
For 2024 we read the following books:
|
Book Discussion Date |
Fiction/Non |
Author |
Title |
Researcher |
|
February |
NF |
Walter Isaacson |
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life |
Bill Adler |
|
March |
F |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Cat’s Cradle |
Bill Espey |
|
April |
NF |
David McCullough |
A Greater Journey: Americans in Paris |
Ron Rizzo |
|
May |
F |
William M. Miller, Jr. |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Tom Doll |
|
June |
NF |
Bill Bryson |
A Short History of Nearly Everything |
Rich Knowles |
|
July |
F |
Bonnie Garmus |
Lessons in Chemistry |
Jim Sowell |
|
August |
NF |
Pekka Hamalainen |
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America |
Alan Curtis |
|
September |
F |
Michael Shaara |
The Killer Angels |
David Scotting |
|
October |
NF |
Erik Larson |
Thunderstruck |
Ron Cassano |
|
November |
F |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Unsheltered |
Carl Ludwig |
|
December |
NF |
David Cordingly |
Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander |
Larry McEwen |
|
January 2025 |
F |
John Steinbeck |
East of Eden |
Steve Greene |
Last updated on 11/13/24 by MLF
