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Though they shared a reading group and social circle, their backgrounds could not have been more different.

The podcast 99% Invisible has run a yearlong reading group whose thoughtful, laugh-out-loud chapter discussions have been downloaded more than 4 million times.

He openly espoused conservative beliefs and organized a reading group around the writings of Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher viewed as a founder of modern conservatism.

A development executive for a Culver City production company, Raquel lives just up the street; this is her third time with the reading group, a chance to step away from other books at home vying for her attention, from her computer, work and Frankie, her Pyrenees Chow mix.

Beyond law school campuses, there are leaders in progressive organizations who “want every single person they work with to be at the next iteration of the reading group,” she said.