Book Discussion Groups

The Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library sponsors two book discussion groups that meet throughout the year.

The Friendly Book Discussion Group meets at 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month in the Thousand Oaks Library Technical Training Room.  For more information, contact Sai Chandavarkar at 805-367-0571 or 805-241-5205.

The History Book Discussion Group meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month in the Thousand Oaks Library Conference Room.  For more information, contact Steve Crane at 818-461-5836 or 805-241-4495.

Upcoming titles and meeting dates for both groups are shown below:

Friendly Book Discussion Group

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
On the Road
by Jack Kerouac

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Returning to Earth
by Jim Harrison

Wednesday, June 2, 2010
The Lonely Crowd
by David Reisman

Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Shakespeare TBA

Wednesday, August 4, 2010
One City, One Book selection TBA

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer

Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Of Human Bondage
by Somerset Maugham

Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Open Discussion Month

 

History Book Discussion Group

Wednesday, January 14, 2010
Freedom at Midnight
by Larry Collins and Dominique Laperre

Wednesday, February 11, 2010
Generations:
The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069

by Neil Howe and William Strauss

Wednesday, March 11, 2010
Guns, Germs and Steel:
The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

Wednesday, April 8, 2010
Born Fighting:
How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

by James H. Webb

Wednesday, May 13, 2010
La Belle France
by Alistair Horne

Wednesday, June 10, 2010
America Alone:
The End of the World As We Know It

by Mark Steyn

Wednesday, July 8, 2010
The King Must Die
by Mary Renault

Wednesday, August 12, 2010
The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk

Wednesday, September 9, 2010
The Rape of Nanking:
The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
by Iris Chang

Wednesday, October 14, 2010
The March of Folly:
From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman

Wednesday, November 11, 2010
The Great Hunger:
Ireland: 1845-1849
by Cecil Woodham-Smith

Wednesday, December 9, 2010
English History made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable
by Lacey Baldwin Smith

 

 


 

 

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