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:

	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 by the River	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
Jan-26	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