Reading Groups | The Center for Fiction

Belief and Doubt: The Novels of Graham Greene with Dennis Krieger

5 sessions Wednesdays, 7:00 pm EDT - 8:30 pm EDT October 22, 2025 to February 18, 2026

Online | Follow characters caught between faith and failure as they navigate moral ambiguities in religion, politics, and love across...

5 sessions Mondays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 27, 2025 to January 26, 2026

Online | Delve into five novels with one thing in common: each story unfolds over the course of a single day, compressing time and narrative...

6 sessions Thursdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT October 30, 2025 to March 5, 2026

Online | Black writers have long grappled with Christianity’s dual role—as a tool of oppression and a force for liberation

8 sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT November 6, 2025 to January 15, 2026

Online | Dive into this rich, groundbreaking novel about one man’s lifelong search for a home. Explore Naipaul’s early prose style...

Saturday, 11:30 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT November 8, 2025

In Person | Lorde invents a genre—the biomythography—to narrate her childhood and coming-of-age as a lesbian, taking readers from...

3 sessions Tuesdays, 6:30 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT December 2 to December 16, 2025

In Person | Explore the ideological and emotional tensions of Turgenev’s 1862 masterpiece, where generational divides, political upheaval...

3 sessions Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT December 4 to December 18, 2025

In Person | Discover how Dickens’s Christmas novellas shaped holiday traditions and the public imagination, revealing 19th-century...