Book Discussion groups - Great Books discussion titles

Library-wide book discussion group titles

Joe Mesics' Literary Canon, a "Great Books" discussion group

• Healdsburg Regional Library "Joe Mesics Literary Canon" Book Group - information and schedule
• Ten years of the Canon: Printable list of titles discussed 2001 - 2011

Santa Rosa "Great Books" discussion groups

• Great Books - Central Library
• Great Books - Northwest Santa Rosa Library

Past & present titles selected by Great Books groups

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K. Gandhi
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Counterfeiters by André Gide
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Daisy Miller by Henry James
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
• English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology
• Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
• Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
• The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
• The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Herzog by Saul Bellow
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• I, Claudius by Robert Graves
• The Iliad by Homer
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Ironweed by William Kennedy
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Loved One: An Anglo American Tragedy by Evelyn Waugh
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
• Moby-Dick by Herman Melville and In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and The Hours by Michael Cunningham
• The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories by Mark Twain
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Poems of Emily Dickinson
• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Red and the Black by Stendhal
• A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Tartuffe by Molière
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
• Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe