Quarterly Classics Book Club
Quarterly Classics Book Club returns to the Perry Public Library for April 2026! We are excited to welcome in a new year of classics with Jane Austen’s beloved “Pride and Prejudice.” Our new meeting time will be from 6 pm to 7 pm on Tuesday, April 14th. New and returning participants are invited to join us for an engaging discussion in a historic atmosphere at the Carnegie Library Museum. You can check out a copy of “Pride and Prejudice” from the library or purchase a copy in advance. Join us for our Monthly Book Club every 2nd Tuesday of the month to discuss current reads! Our book clubs are free, and no registration is required to participate. Contact the library at 515-465-3569 or visit www.perry.lib.ia.us with questions.
Tuesday, April 14th | 6 pm - 7 pm at the Carnegie Library Museum
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Past Quarterly Classics Discussion Books
2025 Discussion Books
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
2024 Discussion Books
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
2023 Discussion Books
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
1984 by George Orwell
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Dairy of a Nobody by George and Wendy Grossmith
2022 Discussion Books
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2021 Discussion Books
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
2020 Discussion Books
Belinda by Maria Edgeworth
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
2019 Discussion Books
Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
3 Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome Kern
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
2018 Discussion Books
Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
2017 Discussion Books
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Babbit by Sinclair Lewis
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Look Homeward Angel y Thomas Wolfe
2016 Discussion Books
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Far from the Maddening Crowd by Thomas Hardy
2015 Discussion Books
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
2014 Discussion Books
The Woman in White by Wilke Collins
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
2013 Discussion Books
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
2012 Discussion Books
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
2011 Discussion Books
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde