The Santa Cruz Pickwick (Book) Club, a branch of the Dickens Fellowship, is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth-century novel. The Santa Cruz Public Libraries provide support for the reading group.
Membership: All are welcome to participate free of charge. However, if you wish to support the Dickens Fellowship and the Santa Cruz Branch, please consider joining as a member for $30 per year. For membership details, please get in touch with Courtney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu.
| Dates | Book or Presentation | Author or Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2025–June 2026 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| May 2025–June 2025 | Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Oct. 2024–Apr. 2025 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens |
| June 2024 | “Dickens and Satire” | Clive Johnson |
| Sept. 2023–May 2024 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| June 2023 | Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London | Lee Jackson |
| May 2023 | “Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind” | Tyson Stolte |
| Feb. 2023–Apr. 2023 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens |
| Sept. 2022–Jan. 2023 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens |
| Apr. 2022–June 2022 | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens |
| March 2022 | “Night Walks” | Charles Dickens |
| Sept. 2021–Feb. 2022 | Bleak House | Charles Dickens |
| June 2021 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| Feb. 2021–May 2021 | Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens |
| Oct. 2020–Jan. 2021 | The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens |
| June 2020–Aug. 2020 | Waverley | Sir Walter Scott |
| Sept. 2019–Apr. 2020 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| Feb. 2019–June 2019 | Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens |
| Sept. 2018–Jan. 2019 | Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens |
| Jan. 2018–May 2018 | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens |
