This is the page to rank your book preferences for the second half of 2025.

Voting began Tuesday May 13th and will end prior to next meeting June3rd

After you submit your rankings you can return to this page to see the rankings but you cannot vote again

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Visit this page for a brief book description of many of the books

You need rank only the books you are interested in. Rank of 5 is most favorable

Ranks as many or as few boooks as you want. You can give them all a "5" if you want or rank only one book with a "3" for example.

But the more books you rank the more the selection will reflect what the group wants to read

The current rankings will appear below this form as votes come in

Book Title	Rank (1 to 5)
Escape from Evil by Ernest Becker
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs.... by Max S. Bennett
Captain Cook Rediscovered:Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes by David Nicandri
Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the origins of Empire by Nandini Das
Fear: An Alternative History of The World by Robert Peckham
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
On Freedom by timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth by timothy Snyder
Peak Human by Johan Norberg
Reagan by Max Boot
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
Star Bound by Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III
Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future by Reid Hoffman
The Accidental President: Harry Truman and the four months that changed the world by AJ Baine
The Barn: A Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson
The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston by Rick Atkinson
The Struggle for a Decent Politics by Michael Walzer
The Wager. by David Grann
Under a Wild Sky, John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America by William Souder
Wild New World, The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores

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Current Book Rankings

We will use these rankings to plan the next 6 books

• The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston: 34 points
• Wild New World, The Epic Story of Animals and People in America: 27 points
• Courting India: England, Mughal India, and the origins of Empire: 24 points
• The Struggle for a Decent Politics: 23 points
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth: 21 points
• The Accidental President: Harry Truman and the four months that changed the world: 19 points
• Maoism: A Global History: 18 points
• Escape from Evil: 18 points
• Reagan: 16 points
• Peak Human: 16 points
• The Wager. : 16 points
• River of the Gods : 15 points
• Under a Wild Sky, John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America: 14 points
• Captain Cook Rediscovered:Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes: 13 points
• The Barn: A Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi: 13 points
• A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs....: 12 points
• On Freedom: 12 points
• Star Bound: 10 points
• Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future: 8 points
• Fear: An Alternative History of The World: 8 points