Great Books Discussion Group

Meeting room or online via zoom.. Join this long-running group for a lively discussion about great books! Visitors are welcome. The only requirement to participate is that you have read the material under discussion. Please register for monthly readings and updates.. Attend at the Vashon Library or online via Zoom. Please register by 4:30pm the day of the event. A Zoom link will be emailed to you. Upcoming readings: October 2026: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (short story only) November:2026: Hekabe by Euripides December 2026: John Keats, selected Poems: "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Melancholy" January 2027: Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne February 2027: "The Criterion of a Good Form of Government" from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill March 2027: Masks by George Santayana April 2027: "Philosophy and Knowledge" from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell May 2027: The Man Who Loved Islands by D. H. Lawrence Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.