Each year we select one or more of Dickens’s
books that all members are encouraged to read. We have a review/discussion
of that book, usually during October. Our book of the year for 2008
is The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
A partial list of previous year’s books and discussion leaders follows:
2007
Little Dorrit
Jan Danza and Jim Patterson
2007
The Pickwick Papers
Jan Danza
2006
Barnaby Rudge
Jan Danza
2005
Oliver Twist
Open Discussion
2004
The Old Curiosity Shop
Open Discussion
2003
A Tale of Two Cities
Anita Wilhelm/Lew Rosenbaum
2002
Hard Times
Open discussion
2001
Bleak House
Dr. Razak Dahmane, University of Illinois,
Springfield
2000
Our Mutual Friend
No discussion due to Springfield/Lebanon
tour
1999
Dombey and Son
Dr. Dale Trela, Roosevelt University
1998
The Pickwick Papers
Open discussion
1997
Sketches by Boz
Open discussion
1996
Nicholas Nickleby
Jim Walsh
1995
Martin Chuzzlewit
Julie Stephens
1994
David Copperfield
Anita Wilhelm
1993
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Michael Weinberg
1992
Great Expectations
Margaret Kusterman/Jim Walsh
1991
A Dickens Glossary for American Readers
Fred Levit
1990
Barnaby Rudge
Michael Weinberg
1989
Little Dorrit
Anita Wilhelm/Diane Yost
1988
David Copperfield
Suzanne Pruchnicki
1987
A Tale of Two Cities
Suzanne Pruchnicki
