Classic Book Group

Welcome to the Harbury Village Library Classic Book Group where we read and discuss those books you always wanted to read but never have, or started, but never finished. We meet on the third Tuesday of every month having a selected a book that meets the following criteria:

• It was first published in book form before 1970

• It is less than 500 pages long

• It conforms to this definition from Italo Calvino, "The classics are those books which come to us bearing the aura of previous interpretations, and trailing behind them the traces they have left in the culture or cultures (or just in the languages and customs) through which they have passed.

After the meeting we publish our thoughts about the book on our Classic Book Group blog. If you would like us to send you information about what book we're going to read next, what we thought of the ones we've already read, and how to join our online meetings, please fill in the sign up for our eMail form. There will be one, possibly two, eMails a month and every eMail includes the option to unsubscribe.

Alternatively, you can just eMail us at BookGroup@harburyvillagelibrary.org.uk and we'll add you to our Book Group mailing list.

You can read what we thought about each of these books our Classic Book Group blog