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Mounce Classics Book Club reads and discusses “classic” books. The Mounce Classics Book Club meets on the last Friday of each month from 1:00 to 2:30 in the first floor conference room of Clara B. Mounce Public Library in downtown Bryan (201 E. 26th St., Bryan, TX 77803). Contact Alexys at amaliga@bryantx.gov or (979) 209-5600 for more information. This club is currently meeting over Zoom. Contact Alexys for a Zoom invite (required).
NEXT BOOK (VIRTUAL MEETING, CONTACT ALEXYS FOR INVITE)
- January 8, 2021 (postponed from December) – Lord of the Flies by William Golding; virtual meeting; contact Alexys for Zoom invitation
UPCOMING BOOKS
- January 29, 2021 – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- February 26, 2021 – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Previous Book Selections
- November 20, 2020 – The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- October 30, 2020 – Dracula by Bram Stoker
- September 25, 2020 – The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- August 28, 2020 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- July 31, 2020 – Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- June 26, 2020 – Animal Farm by George Orwell
- May 29, 2020 – The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. You can find this book freely available at Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396)
- April 24, 2020 – The Odyssey by Homer (We recommend the Emily Wilson translation)
- March 2020 – no meeting, book moved to April
- February 28, 2020 – Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- January 31, 2020 – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
- December 20, 2019 – “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (The December meeting was early due to holidays.)
- November 22, 2019 – A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- October 25, 2019 – “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Murders in the Rue Morgue”, and “The Gold Bug” by Edgar Allen Poe
- September 27, 2019 – Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
- August 30, 2019 – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- July 26, 2019 – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- June 28, 2019 – One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- May 31, 2019 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- April 26, 2019 – The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- March 29, 2019 – Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- February 22, 2019 – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- January 25, 2019 – The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- December 28, 2018 – The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
- November 30, 2018 – Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- October 26, 2018 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
