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Daytime Great Books Club

The Daytime Great Books group meets at 1 p.m. on the following Mondays. 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 these selections in the months ahead:

Nov. 16:  The Closing Circle by Barry Commoner
               The World’s Biggest Membrane by Lewis Thomas

Dec. 21:  Intricacy by Annie Dillard
               The Recognition of Gaia by James E. Lovelock

Jan. 25:  The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
               The Words Nature, Wild, and Wilderness by Gary Snyder

Feb. 22:  Water Songs by Terry Tempest Williams
               The Politics of Wilderness and the Practice of the Wild by R. Edward Grumbine

Mar. 15:  Cutover by Jan Zita Grover
               Dimensions of Deformity by Gordon L. Miller

For more information about the group, stop at the Warrenton Library reference desk or call or e-mail Jeanne Day, (540) 347-8750, ext. 6. To learn more about all of the library's book clubs, visit our home page or the adult programs page.

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