Reading Georgia Book Discussions

Groups Invited to Apply for Special Program Grants to Host Book Discussion Programs.

The Council's "Reading Georgia Book Discussion" Program is available for use by local groups. Interested organizations or book clubs just need to select the book series desired and apply for a special program or public program grant to cover costs for honoraria for discussion leaders and other expenses related to the program. The GHC will lend the books to successful applicants and will give first priority for these grants to those that have not been awarded a GHC book discussion series in the past. Prospective applicants should review the GHC's grant program guidelines that are available for download on this site.

Series available to be borrowed from the GHC include:

"Georgia Through Time"

This series features The Home Concealed Woman, Tobacco Road, Wise Blood, The Color Purple and Peachtree Street, USA.

"Georgia Rites of Passage"

This series features Cold Sassy Tree, Homeplace, Baby of the Family, The Last Radio Baby and Run With the Horseman.

"The Voice of the Poet"

This series features a study guide to contemporary Southern poetry by Adrienne Bond, and poetry by Marilyn Nelson, David Bottoms, Andrew Hudgins, and Byron Herbert Reece.

"Family Experiences in Literature"

This series features Wartime Lies, Common Ground, Housekeeping and Rabbit is Rich.

"Individualism and Commitment in American Life"

This series features an anthology and study guide by the same title.

"Visions of New Worlds, Old Worlds, and Other Worlds"

This series features The Crown of Columbus, Absalom, Absalom, The Handmaid's Tale, and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"Poets in Person"

This series includes cassette tapes and a study guide on American poetry since World War II. Featured poets include Allen Ginsburg, Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Merrill and Rita Dove.

"Villains: People You Love to Hate"

This series features Frankenstein, Hedda Gabler, The Stories of Edgar Allen Poe, Othello, and The Silence of the Lambs.

"Female Figures in Crime Fiction"

This series features Misery, Presumed Innocent, Wolf in the Shadows, The Cereal Murders, and Donato and Daughter.

"The West, Who's West?"

This series features Angle of Repose, Last Refuge, On Gold Mountain, and The Legacy of Conquest.

"A World of Novels"

This series features The Kitchen God's Wife, A Town Like Alice, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Dwarf, A Canticle for Leibowitz and Clear Light of Day.

Series made available by the Southwest Georgia Regional Library

The Southwest Georgia Regional Library in Bainbridge also has series available for adults, young adults, and children, which it is willing to lend for only the cost of shipment and return postage. To borrow books from this source, contact Susan Ralph at (912) 248-2665.

"Lives Worth Knowing: the Unfamous"

Features Plain Folk, All God's Dangers, The Maimie Papers and The Good War.

"Star Trek at 30 years"

Features five titles from the original Star Trek series.

Juvenile and Young Adult Titles

Include Children of the River by Linda Crews, Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, Missing May by Cynthia Rylant, Martin Luther King: the Peaceful Warrior by Ed Clayton, Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Elanor Coerr, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith, Tuck the Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.

There are teacher guides available for each of these sets, which can be worked into parent/child book discussion series.

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