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It’s Reading Season
Published: November 15, 2024
Both Men’s and Women’s Book Clubs resume meeting in September. Gatherings ae held usually the last Thursday of a month at 3pm, at a rotating list of homes. Residents receive an invitation by email from Punchbowl.
Men’s Books: This group works from a list of books, choosing one each month from the list. The Men’s Club takes the summer off. Here is the current book list (September 2024-May 2025)
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, by Erik Larsen
A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster
The Bridge Over the River Kwai, by Pierre Boulle
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin Sherman
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers and the Making of Modern Media, by Darrell Hartman
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future, by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Life of a 109 Year Old Man, by David von Drehle
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber
The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War One, by Douglas Brunt
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and its Tunnels, by Jill Jonnes
Women’s Books: This book club uses an April to March calendar, and publishes its list in The Downs Directory each spring. Books chosen for the remainder of their reading season:
September Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Lisa Se)
October 1984 (George Orwell)
January The Women (Kristin Hannah)
February Trust (Herman Diaz)
March Code Name Blue Wren (Jim Popkin)
The Downs of Hillcrest HOA
