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Book Clubs: Classics

Classics Book Club

When: First Thursday of the month, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Where: South Regional Library (in-person)
Ages: 14 & up

Upcoming Books:
Past Books:

2025

  • November: The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
  • December: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
  • October: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
  • September: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
  • August: Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 2. by Thomas Malory 
  • July: Le Morte D'Arthur Vol. 1 by Thomas Malory
  • June: A Separate Peace by John Knowles​​​
  • May: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • April: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
  • March: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • February: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  • January: Animal Farm by George Orwell

2024

  • December: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 
  • November: Possession by A.S. Byatt
  • October: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  • September: Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  • August: Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
  • July: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
  • June: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
  • May: Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
  • April: A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
  • March: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • February: Passing by Nella Larsen
  • January: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

2023

  • December: Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
  • November: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
  • October: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  • September: Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
  • August: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  • July: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
  • June: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • May: So Big by Edna Ferber
  • March and April: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • February: Cane by Jean Toomer
  • January: My Antonia by Willa Cather

2022

  • December: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
  • November: Candide by Voltaire
  • October: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  • September: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
  • August: Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
  • July: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  • June: Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • May: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • April: Don Quixote (Part 2) by Miguel de Cervantes
  • March: Don Quixote (Part 1) by Miguel de Cervantes
  • February: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
  • January: Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

2021

  • December: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
  • November: Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
  • October: I, Claudius by William Graves
  • September: The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
  • August: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
  • July: Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • June: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  • May: Light in August by William Faulkner
  • April: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • March: The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
  • February: Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • January: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

2020

  • December: The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin
  • November: The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
  • October: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
  • September: The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • August: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
  • July: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
  • June: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
  • May: The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
  • April: A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • March: O Pioneers by Willa Cather
  • February: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
  • January: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

2019

  • December: The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
  • November: The Once and Future King by T.H. White
  • October: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • September: The Chosen by Chiam Potok
  • August: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  • July: The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  • June: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • May: Billy Budd and Other Tales by Herman Melville
  • April: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • March: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
  • February: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • January: 1984 by George Orwell

2018

  • December: About Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
  • November: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
  • October: Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
  • September: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • August: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • July: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • June: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • May: Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • April: Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • March: The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
  • February: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  • January: White Fang by Jack London

2017

  • December: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
  • November: Howards End by E.M. Forster
  • October: Of Human Bondage by M. Somerset Maughn
  • September: My Man Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
  • August: Exodus by Leon Uris
  • July: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • June: The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • May: The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
  • April: Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
  • March: The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
  • February: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • January: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

2016

  • December: The Odyssey by Homer
  • November: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • October: Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
  • September: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • August: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • July: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • June: The Secret Garden by Francse Hodgson Burnett
  • May: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
  • April: The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  • March: Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • February: Nana by Emile Zola
  • January: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

2015

  • December: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • November: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • October: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • September: Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • August: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • July: Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • June: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
  • May: A Moveable Feast by Earnest Hemingway
  • April: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith