Let’s re-read some of the classic stories from high school, with a new, adult perspective. Do they improve with age? Are the characters more or less relatable? Who are the true heroes, when you know how the world really works?
No reservations required. All are welcome to join.
June 2025: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
May 2025: The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemmingway
April 2025: The Trial by Frank Kafka
March 2025: The Dubliners by James Joyce
February 2025: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
January 2025: Screw Tape Letters by CS Lewis
2024: 1984 by George Orwell, TBD Frankenstein by Mary Shelly, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne, The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, The BFG by Roald Dahl, Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by ETA Hoffman & The Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas
2023: Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Outsiders by SE Hinton, Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2022: A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Turn of the Screw by Henry James, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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