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Evening Great Books

The Evening Great Books group will meet at 7 p.m. on the following days.  Unless otherwise noted, the group meets in the Warrenton Library program room.

We meet each month to discuss enduring issues and ideas presented through readings selected to stimulate good conversation and hard thinking. 

The group will be discussing the following selections in the months ahead:

Dec. 7:  The Book of Job from the Bible

Jan. 4: Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Feb.1: Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw

Mar. 1: The City of God by St. Augustine

April 5: Symposium by Plato

May 3: Of Experience by Michel de Montaigne

June 7: Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot

July 12: The Tempest by Shakespeare

Aug. 2: The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison

Sept. 13: The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol

For more information about the group, stop at the Warrenton Library reference desk or call or e-mail Jeanne Day, (540) 347-8750, ext. 5322. To learn more about all of the library's book clubs, visit our home page.

“A good discussion is known by the skill with which participants listen to one another.”