This group meets to discuss classic literature selected by the group. Meetings are held at 1:30 pm on the 3rd Wednesday in even numbered months throughout the year.
The October meeting has a longer format that includes lunch. This meeting is devoted to an in-depth study of an author and his/her works.
For information, email mariam.sml17@gmail.com
2023 selections – Banned and Challenged Books (Reader’s Choice) – include:
February 15th Books Banned for Religious Reasons
April 19th Books Banned for Racist Reasons
June 21st Books Banned for Political Reasons
August 16th Books Challenged in Schools and Libraries
October 18th Books Banned for Sexuality Reasons
December 13th Book Selections for 2024
2022 selections – Biographies – include:
February 16th The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
April 20th The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
June 15th Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (meeting at the BTW Monument)
August 17th Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
October 19th Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
December 7th Book Selections for 2023
2021 selections – 20th Century Fiction – included:
February 17th The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
April 21st A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
June 16th Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Discussion Leader Needed)
August 18th One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ralph Ellison
October 20th A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
December 8th Book Selections for 2022
2020 selections – Books I Wish I Had Read – included:
February 19th 1984 by George Orwell
April 15th Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
June 17th Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
August 19th Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
October 21st Middlemarch by George Eliot
December 9th Book Selections for 2021
2019 selections – Mystery – included:
February 20th The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
April 17th The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
June 19th The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
August 21st The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell hammett
October 16th Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile to be read by the entire group. One short story to be selected and read by each member
December 11th Book Selections for 2020
2018 selections – included:
February 21th Silas Marner by George Eliot
April 18th East of Eden by John Steinbeck
June 20st Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
August 15th Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
October 17th Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of Louisa M. Alcott
Little Women to be read by the entire group. One other work to be selected and read by each member
December 12th Book Selections for 2019
2017 selections – Romance – included:
February 15th Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
April 19th Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
June 21st Midsummer’s Night Dream by William Shakespeare
August 16th Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
October 18th Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury to be read by the entire group. One other work to be selected and read by each member
December 13th Book Selections for 2018
2016 selections – all from the Science Fiction genre – included
February 17th The Last Man by Mary Shelley
April 20st Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
June 15th I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
August 17th Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
October 19th Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 to be read by the entire group. One other work to be selected and read by each member
December 21st Book Selections for 2017
2015 selections included:
February 18th Grimm’s Fairy Tales , Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Read 3 from each collection.
April 15th Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset- 1st book: The Wreath
June 17th Watership Down by Richard Adams
August 19th Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
October 21st Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of Mark Twain
The Innocents Abroad to be read by the entire group. One other work to be selected and read by each member
December 16th Book Selections for 2016
2014 selections included:
February 12th Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
April 16th The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
June 18th The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
August 20th Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
October 15th Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of George Bernard Shaw.
Pygmalion to be read by the entire group. Other titles to be selected individually at the August meeting
December 10th Book selections for 2015
2013 selections included:
February 13th 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
April 10th The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
June 12th Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
August 14th The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
October 9th Meeting at 10:30 am with lunch – Works of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice to be read by the entire group, with other titles selected by individuals
December 11th Poems of Emily Dickinson
Examples of earlier reading selections are Advise and Consent, Animal Farm, Red Badge of Courage, The Crucible, Wind in the Willows, Heart of Darkness, The Awakening, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Tess of the d’Urbervilles. and Inherit the Wind.