2016 Monthly Themes and Readalongs

2016 Monthly Themes and Author Flavors 



East of the Prime Meridian


January Junket:  Vikram Seth and Arundhati Roy    

February Safari:  E.M. Forster (A Passage to India) and  Karen Blixen (Out of Africa)

March gadabout: David Malouf  and Joan Druett  

April Navigation:  Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle)  and Edith Wharton 

May Mediterranean Medley:   explore authors and settings in countries around the med.

Philosophical June:  Dante (Paradiso) and George Eliot (Middlemarch) 


West of the Prime Meridian

Maritime July – Herman Melville (Moby Dick) and Sena Jeter Naslund  
Nautical alternates, adaptations and nonfiction

August Peregrinations: John Steinbeck and  Willa Cather

September sojourns through the South  William Faulkner and Zora Neale Hurston 

October  Spooktacular:   Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson

November Notions: Julio Cortazar and  Laura Esquivel    

December Delectables





***Annual Readalong ***

History of the Renaissance World by Susan Wise Bauer 



1 comment:

  1. I stumbled upon your blog and I love your book ideas. I have been creating a 2016 goodreads list and many of your proposed books are on my list or ones I've wanted to read ( Moby Dick, Out of Africa, David Malouf, E.M. Forster. I love Willa Cather and Edgar Allan Poe. I think we have a lot of the same interests in books.) I plan to read several at a time. Thank you! Shelley Dorman

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