BOOK CLUBS
GREAT BOOKS READING & DISCUSSION GROUP
READ ABOUT upcoming Book Discussions here.
A dynamic, liberal arts education, for free at the public library! Huntington Public Library's Great Books Reading and Discussion Group meets once a month to discuss works from a curriculum designed and published by the Great Books Foundation, an independent, nonprofit educational organization established in 1947 by University of Chicago educators Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler. Its mission is “to empower readers of all ages to become more reflective and responsible thinkers.” For more information, contact Tom Cohn at tom_cohn@thehuntingtonlibrary.org.
Readings To Date: January 2005 - November 2011
- Bible: Genesis; Exodus; Ecclesiastes; Job; Mark
- Homer: Iliad
- Sophocles: Antigone; Oedipus the King
- Euripides: Iphigeneia at Aulis; Medea
- Aeschylus: Agammemnon
- Herodotus: Persian Wars
- Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War
- Plato: Apology; Crito; Symposium; Republic
- Aristotle: On Happiness; On Tragedy; Politics
- St. Augustine: The City of God
- Dante: The Inferno
- Moses Maimonides: On Evil
- Machiavelli: The Prince
- Hobbes: Origin of Government
- Montaigne: Of Experience
- Shakespeare: Othello; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Tempest; King Lear
- Moliere: The Misanthrope
- Locke: Of Civil Government
- Montesquieu: Principles of Government
- Rousseau: Social Contract
- Swift: Gulliver's Travels
- Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Hamilton, Jay, Madison: The Federalist
- Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Kant: First Principles of Morals; Conscience
- Hume: Of Personal Identity; Of Justice and Injustice
- Diderot: Rameau's Nephew
- Smith: Wealth of Nations
- Goethe: Faust, Part One
- De Toqueville: The Power of the Majority
- Thoreau: On Civil Disobedience
- Von Clausewitz: On War
- Schopenauer: On the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature
- Marx: Alienated Labor
- Mill: On Liberty; Utilitarianism
- Darwin: The Moral Sense of Man and the Lower Animals
- Gogol: The Overcoat
- Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground
- Tolstoy: Death of Ivan Illych
- Flaubert: A Simple Heart
- Chekhov: Rothschild's Fiddle; Uncle Vanya
- James: Beast in the Jungle
- Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor
- Kierkegaard: Knight of Faith
- Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
- Shaw: Caesar and Cleopatra
- Adams: The Education of Henry Adams
- Simmel: Individual Freedom
- Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents; On Dreams
- Kafka: The Metamorphosis
- Weber: The Spirit of Capitalism
- Dewey: Habits and Will; The Virtues
Warm Up With a Good Book: Winter Reading Club 2013
Saturday, January 26 - Saturday, February 23
Ages 3 - Grade 4 (HMJ258)
Warm up with some good books this winter! As your family reads together, play our game to win fun prizes along the way.
Hand in your completed game boards for your invitation to our final party on February 23.
Starting January 26, stop in the Library to pick up your "Polar Package” and join in the fun!
Adult Summer Reading Club Wrap Up
Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Library, the end-of-summer gathering of the Adult Summer Reading Club was a success and many of our club members walked away with prizes ranging from books to reading lights to a NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight. This was our most successful Adult Summer Reading Club, with many new members and even a mother-daughter reviewing team. We look forward to reading and reviewing with you again next summer!
