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The Salon: Classics Book Club
Who We Are
The Salon: Classics Book Club is dedicated to classical literature.
What We Read
We read fiction, essays, plays, anything that is at least 30 years old and still in print.
The monthly selections are chosen by member majority.
When We Meet
Starting in 2023, we meet on the 3rd Monday of the month at 7:00 PM.
Upcoming Meetings
Monday February 19, 2024 @ 7PM: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Monday, March 18, 2024 @ 7PM: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Monday, April 15, 2024 @ 7PM: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Monday, May 20, 2024 @ 7PM: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Monday, June 17, 2024 @ 7PM: Day of the Locust by Nathanial West
Monday, July 15, 2024 @ 7PM: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
Monday, August 19, 2024 @ 7PM: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Monday, September 16, 2024 @ 7PM: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Monday, October 21, 2024 @ 7PM: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Monday, November 18, 2024, @7PM: Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
December: No meeting!
How to Join
Simply read the book and show up. We look forward to discussing classics with you!
Any inquiries can be directed to Jeanine Henry at jmh1224@yahoo.com.
Past Selections
The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing, The Titan by Theodore Dreiser, The Man With the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, The Europeans by Henry James, Young Lonigan by James Farrell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, One Book, One Chicago pick The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, Oh What a Paradise It Seems by John Cheever, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, The Fall by Albert Camus, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, Stoner by John Williams, Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammet.
2023
Monday, January 16 @ 7 PM: The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Monday, February 20 @ 7 PM: Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
Monday, March 20 @ 7 PM: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Monday, April 17 @ 7 PM: Ironweed by William Kennedy
Monday, May 15 @ 7 PM: The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Monday, June 19 @ 7 PM: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
Monday, July 17 @ 7 PM: Ethan Frome by Edit Wharton
Monday, Aug. 21 @ 7 PM: The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Monday, Sept 18 @ 7 PM: Sula by Toni Morrison
Monday, October 16 @ 7 PM: The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
Monday, November 20 @ 7 PM: The Blacker The Berry by Wallace Thurman
December: No meeting! Read whatever you think you'll enjoy.
2022
January 24th @ 7:30pm: Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Feburary 28th @ 7:30pm: Herzog by Saul Bellow
March 28th @ 7:30pm: The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
April 25 @ 7:30 pm: The Human Comedy by William Saroyan
May 23 @ 7:30 pm: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
June 27 @ 7:30 pm: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
July 24 @ 7:30pm: The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac
August 28 @ 7:30pm: Grendel by John Gardner
September 25 @ 7:30pm: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
October 24 @ 7:30pm: The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
November 28 @ 7:30pm: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
2020
January 27th @ 7:30pm: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
February 24th @ 7:30pm: Orlando by Virginia Woolf
March 23rd @ 7:30pm: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
June 22 @ 7:30 PM: Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
July 27 @ 7:30 PM: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
August 24 @ 7:30 PM: Beloved by Toni Morrison
September 28 @ 7:30 PM: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
October 26 @ 7:30 PM: Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
November 23 @ 7:30: The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
2019
January 28th, 2019 @ 7:30pm: Ubik by Philip K. Dick
February 25th, 2019 @ 7:30pm: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
March 25th, 2019 @ 7:30pm: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Monday, April 22 @ 7:30 p.m.: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Wednesday, May 29 @ 7:30 p.m. (Special date due to Memorial Day): Native Son by Richard Wright
Monday, June 24 @ 7:30 p.m.: The Plague by Albert Camus
Monday, July 22 @ 7:30 p.m.: Daisy Miller by Henry James
Monday, Aug. 26 @ 7:30 p.m.: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
September 23 @7:30 p.m.: The Summer Before Dark by Doris Lessing
October 28 @ 7:30 p.m.: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
November 25 @ 7:30 p.m.: The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
2018
January 22nd, 2018 @ 7:30pm: Under the Glacier by Halldor Laxness
February 26th, 2018 @ 7:30pm: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre
March 26th. 2018 @ 7:30pm: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
April 23rd, 2018 @ 7:30pm The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
May 7th, 2018 @ 7:30pm (NOTE SPECIAL DATE due to Memorial Day): The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
June 25th, 2018 @ 7:30pm Emma by Jane Austen
July 23rd, 2018 @ 7:30pm The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Aug. 27th, 2018 @ 7:30pm To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
June 25th, 2018 @ 7:30pm Emma by Jane Austen
July 23rd, 2018 @ 7:30pm The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Aug. 27th, 2018 @ 7:30pm To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
Mon. Sept. 24 @ 7:30: Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Mon. Oct. 22 @ 7:30: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Mon. Nov. 26 @ 7:30: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
2017
January 23, 2017 @7:30 pm: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark
February 27, 2017 @7:30 pm: Life of William Grimes, Runaway Slave, by William Grimes
March 27, 2017 @7:30 pm The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
April 24, 2017 @7:30 pm: Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery, by Dorothy Sayers.
May 22, 2017 @7:30 pm: Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
June 26, 2017 @7:30pm: The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
July 24, 2017 @7:30pm: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
August 28, 2017 @7:30pm: The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
September 26, 2017 @7:30pm: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Oct. 23rd @ 7:30 p.m.: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Nov. 27th@ 7:30 p.m.: A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
2016
January 25, 2016 @7:30pm: Love in the Time of Cholera, by G. Garcia Marquez
February 22, 2016 @7:30pm: Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared) by Franz Kafka
March 28 2016 @7:30pm: The Wild Ass's Skin by Honore de Balzac
April 25, 2016 @7:30pm: A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
May 23, 2016 @7:30pm: It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
June 27, 2016 @7:30pm: On The Road by Jack Kerouac
July 25, 2016 @7:30pm: The Assistant by Bernard Malamud
August 22, 2016 @7:30pm: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass by Lewis Carroll
Sept 26, 2016 @7:30pm: Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
Oct 24, 2016 @7:30pm: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Nov 28, 2016 @7:30pm: The Bell by Iris Murdoch
2015
Monday, November 23 @ 7:30pm : Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Monday, October 26 @ 7:30pm : Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Monday, September 28th @ 7:30pm : The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Monday, August 24 @ 7:30pm : So Big by Edna Ferber
Monday, July 27 @ 7:30pm : The Man of Property by John Galsworthy
Monday, June 22 @ 7:30pm : Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Monday, May 27 @ 7:30pm : A Death in the Family by James Agee
Monday, April 27 @ 7:30pm : Gigli by Irmgard Keun
Monday, March 23 @ 7:30pm : With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
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