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.
Dates | Topic |
Jan-May 2018 | Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens |
Sep-Jan 2019 | Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens |
Feb-Jun 2019 | Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens |
Sep-Apr 2020 | David Copperfield by Charles Dickens |
Jun-Aug 2020 | Waverley by Sir Walter Scott |
Oct-Jan 2021 | The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens |
Feb-May 2021 | Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens |
June 2021 | A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
Sep-Feb 2022 | Bleak House by Charles Dickens |
March 2022 | "Night Walks" by Charles Dickens |
Apr-Jun 2022 | A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
Sep-Jan 2023 | Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens |
Feb-Apr 2023 | The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens |
May 2023 | Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind by Tyson Stolte |
June 2023 | Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London by Lee Jackson |
Sep-May 2024 | Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
June 2024 | Dickens and Satire by Clive Johnson |
Oct-Apr 2025 | The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens |
May-Jun 2025 | Silas Marner by George Eliot |