{"id":851,"date":"2011-10-12T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romeodistrictlibrary.org\/?page_id=851"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T10:24:46","slug":"great-books-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/romeodistrictlibrary.org\/?page_id=851","title":{"rendered":"Great Books Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cGreat Books\u201d Book Group focuses our reading efforts on modern classics. In the past we have read from lists such as Entertainment Weekly\u2019s 100 best books of the past 25 years, Time\u2019s 100 best books of all time and the Modern Library Association 100 best novels. The group has been active since October, 2007. The group meets on the first Thursday of the month at the Kezar Library. For more info contact <a href=\"mailto:stacie@romeodistrictlibrary.org\">stacie@romeodistrictlibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Past Selections<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Great Gatsby \u2013 F. Scott Fitzgerald<br \/>\nDeath of a Salesman \u2013 Arthur Miller<br \/>\nWrinkle in Time \u2013 Madeline l\u2019Engle<br \/>\nThe Dubliners \u2013 James Joyce<br \/>\nMadame Bovary \u2013 Gustave Flaubert<br \/>\nCatcher in the Rye \u2013 J. D. Salinger<br \/>\nTo the Lighthouse \u2013 Virginia Wolfe<br \/>\nLook Homeward Angel \u2013 Thomas Wolf<br \/>\nTropic of Cancer \u2013 Henry Miller<br \/>\nSister Carrie \u2013 Theodore Dreiser<br \/>\nElmer Gantry \u2013 Sinclair Lewis<br \/>\nGo tell it on the Mountain \u2013 James Baldwin<br \/>\nCloud Atlas \u2013 David Mitchell<br \/>\nCold Mountain \u2013 Charles Frazier<br \/>\nPoisonwood Bible \u2013 Barbara Kingsolver<br \/>\nThe Journalist and the Murderer -Janet Malcolm<br \/>\nKaaterskill Falls \u2013 Allegra Goodman<br \/>\nThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao \u2013 Junot Diaz<br \/>\nMaus I and II \u2013 Art Spiegleman<br \/>\nPersepolis &#8211; Marjane Satrapi<br \/>\nHoles \u2013 Louis Sacher<br \/>\nThe Ruins \u2013 Scott Smith<br \/>\nPraying for Sheetrock \u2013 Melissa Jay Greene<br \/>\nThe Maltese Falcon \u2013 Dashiell Hammett<br \/>\nThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime \u2013 Mark Haddon<br \/>\nThe Birds of America \u2013 Lorrie Moore<br \/>\nFlowers for Algernon \u2013 Daniel Keyes<br \/>\nAnimal Farm \u2013 George Orwell<br \/>\nThe Pearl \u2013 John Steinbeck<br \/>\nMy Antonia \u2013 Willa Cather<br \/>\nAngle of Repose \u2013 Wallace Stegner<br \/>\nBattlefield Earth \u2013 L. Ron Hubbard<br \/>\nThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale \u2013 Margaret Atwood<br \/>\nThe Moviegoer \u2013 Walter Perry<br \/>\nAnd Then There Were None \u2013 Agatha Christie<br \/>\nThe Bridge of San Luis Ray \u2013 Thornton Wilder<br \/>\nAll the Kings Men \u2013 Robert Penn Warren<br \/>\nHoward\u2019s End \u2013 E. M. Foster<br \/>\nZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance \u2013 Robert Pirsig<br \/>\nThe Sun Also Rises \u2013 Ernest Hemingway<br \/>\nThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold \u2013 John Le Carre<br \/>\nBrideshead Revisited \u2013 Evelyn Waugh<br \/>\nTheir Eyes Were Watching God \u2013 Zora Neale Thurston<br \/>\nTo Kill a Mockingbird \u2013 Harper Lee<br \/>\nSound and the Fury \u2013 William Faulkner<br \/>\nDeath Comes for the Archbishop \u2013 Willa Cather<br \/>\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest \u2013 Ken Kesey<br \/>\nRabbit Run \u2013 John Updike <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cGreat Books\u201d Book Group focuses our reading efforts on modern classics. 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