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• May 1-4: New England Great Books Spring Retreat (Zoom)

  • Readings: Albert Camus, The Fall; Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit; Annie Ernaux, The Years; Patrick Modiano, The Occupation Trilogy: The Night Watch.

• May 17: San Francisco Great Books Gold Country Mini-Retreat (Auburn, CA)

  • Reading and film: Daniel James Brown, The Boys in the Boat.​

• May 17: Philadelphia Great Books Spring Institute (Zoom)

  • Theme: Leaving on Our Own Terms. ​

  • Readings: Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping; Paul Harding, Tinkers.

• June 28: San Francisco Great Books Leader/Reader Workshop (Zoom)

• July 13-18: Toronto Pursuits (Toronto, Ontario)

  • Ten parallel, multi-day, small-group seminars on art and literary topics, presented by Classical Pursuits.

• July 20: San Francisco Great Books Annual Meeting (Zoom)

  • Reading: Claire Keegan, Foster.

• July 20-26: Great Books at Colby College (Colby, Maine)

  • Theme: Existential Perspectives.

  • Readings: Sarah Bakewell, At the Existential Cafe; Albert Camus, The Stranger; Joseph Heller, Catch-22; Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World; Clarice Lispector, Love; John Updike, Pigeon Feathers.​

• October 18-19: San Francisco Great Books Long Novel Weekend (Zoom)

  • Reading: Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls Trilogy.​

• November 7-9: Philadelphia Great Books Fall Institute (Wallingford, PA)

  • Theme: Growing Up.

  • Readings: Claire Keegan, Foster; William Faulkner, The Bear; Marguerite Duras, The Lover; Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai.

• November 15-16: San Francisco Great Books Poetry Weekend (Zoom)

  • Theme: Pastoral Verse.​

• April 17-19, 2026: San Francisco Great Books Asilomar Weekend (Pacific Grove, CA)

  • Theme: TBD.​

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