Book Discussion Groups

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 6:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month in the Grant R. Brimhall Library Technical Training Room (unless otherwise noted below). For more information, contact Sai Chandavarkar at (805) 241-5205 or chitra.sai.chandavarkar@hotmail.com.

The History Book Discussion Group meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month at the Goebel Senior Center, 1385 E. Janss Road (next door to the GRB Library). For more information, contact Beth Oetken at (805) 494-0141.

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

Friendly Book Discussion Group

Thursday, January 5, 2012
Doubt
by John Shanley

Thursday, February 2, 2012
Londonistan
by Melanie Philips

Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Studs Terkel Reader
by Studs Terkel

Thursday, April 5, 2012
Death of Ivan Ilyich
by Leo Tolstoy

Thursday, May 3, 2012
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

Thursday, June 7, 2012
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell

Thursday, July 5, 2012
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
(Held in Marvin Smith Community Room)

Thursday, August 2, 2012
Key to Rebecca
by Ken Follett

Thursday, September 6, 2012
Colossus: Rise and Fall of the American Empire
by Niall Ferguson

Thursday, October 4, 2012
One City One Book Selection (tbd)

Thursday, November 1, 2012
Shantaram
by Gregory Roberts

Thursday, December 6, 2012
Guest Speaker: Dr. Michael Arndt, Director, Kingsmen Shakespeare, CLU
(Held in Marvin Smith Community Room)

History Book Discussion Group

Thursday, January 12, 2012
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage

Thursday, February 9, 2012
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan

Thursday, March 8, 2012
Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
(abridged version edited by Michael Kammen)

Thursday, April 12, 2012
Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
by Daniel Okrent

Thursday, May 10, 2012
The Last Founding Father
by Harlow Unger

Thursday, June 14, 2012
Farewell to Manzanar
by Jeanne Wakatsuki and James Houston

Thursday, July 12, 2012
Colossus: Rise and Fall of the American Empire
by Niall Ferguson

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine
by Anna Reid

Thursday, September 13, 2012
April 1865: The Month that Saved America
by Jay Winik

Thursday, October 11, 2012
Yemen, Dancing on the Heads of Snakes
by Victoria Clark

Thursday, November 8, 2012
James Madison
by Garry Wills and Arthur M. Schlesinger

Thursday, December 13, 2012
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson