BRENTWOOD, Calif. — To sit at Richard Riordan’s table is to turn back a few pages to a time before books and bipartisanship went out of fashion.

A group of notable Angelenos has been gathering in the former Los Angeles mayor's Brentwood home once a month since 1994 to discuss books.

“It’s a lot of fun. Everybody loves it,” Riordan said.

The book club is invitation only, but anyone can pick up a book from a list of nearly 300 titles they’ve read over the last 25 years.

If you're interested in the books they have discussed, here are some of them below to check out:

• The Mayor by Richard Riordan
• Don’t Stop the Presses! by Patt Morrison
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• The Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by Dave Barry
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
• Bad Blood by John Carreyrou