Meetings take place at Addison's on the last Wednesday of each month (unless it interferes with a holiday) from 7 to 8:30 pm. The cost is $5, and attendees are welcome to bring their own food and drinks. If you would like to participate, read the book and join us! 

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Here is the list of month & book pairings: 

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January – choose the books for 2026
 
February – Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918), February 25, 2026
 
March – Henry James, The Ambassadors (1903), March 25, 2026
 
April – Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974), April 29, 2026
 
May – John Dos Passos, 42 nd Parallel (1930), May 27, 2026
 
June – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, chapters 1-60 (1846), June 24, 2026
 
July – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, chapters 61-117 (1846), July 29, 2026
 
August – William Faulkner, The Reivers (1962), August 26, 2026
 
September – Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk (1956), September 30, 2026
 
October – Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1921), October 28, 2026
 
November – Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), November 18, 2026
 
December – Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), December 16, 2026

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Previous Reads from the Addison's Book Club

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2025:

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Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857)
Gaston Leroux, Phantom of the Opera (1909)
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (1895)

Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)

Robert Louis Stephenson, Treasure Island (1883)

Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood (1965)

John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)​

Sophocles, Antigone (441 BCE), and Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1953)

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2024:

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Death of Ivan Illych, Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Torrents of Spring, Ivan Turgenev 

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck 

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

East of Eden, John Steinbeck   

Beloved, Toni Morrison

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2023:

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Beowulf

Tale of Two Cities (?), Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger 

Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

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We look forward to seeing you at Addison’s!

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