These 15 books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today. It is now normal to go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Shakespeare. This is a civilizational failure. Our book club exists to fight back. It's time to form our own, independent reading circles to study the Great Conversation of the West. That's what we're doing at Athenaeum, in dialogue with each other. We are just starting Augustine's City of God — possibly the greatest work of Christian thought ever written. Join our group and study it with us. This is one of our most significant and foundational reads thus far. Take out a paid subscription to support our mission and join the discussions directly; it makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. All paid book club members get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next Of course, you can also read along with us for free and tune into the live broadcasts. Let's make City of God our biggest read-along yet... Welcome!

REMEMBER: once your culture is gone, it isn't coming back. Government education has failed to teach the Great Books of the West for decades. Deliberately failed. That's why we started an independent group to study the Western canon, together. We're reading the books that form the mind and shape the spirit — the books our ancestors read. It is essential that we continue the Great Conversation of the West. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton are not just names in a syllabus, but guides to a more beautiful life. Join our group and study the great works alongside us. We read a new classic every 4-6 weeks, and meet biweekly to discuss. We are just about to start Augustine's City of God. This is a foundational work. Possibly the greatest work of Christian philosophy. You do not want to miss this. Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support our mission and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - Access to our incredible community chat - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next... See you inside!

NEVER FORGET: once your culture is gone, it's gone forever. Government education has (deliberately) failed to teach the Great Books of the West for decades. So, we started an independent group to study the Western canon together. We're reading the books that form the mind and shape the spirit. The books our ancestors read. Western Civilization has given us the greatest works ever known, but it takes effort and an open mind to read them. Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton are not just names in a syllabus, but guides to a deeper and more ordered life. Join our reading group to study the great works in dialogue with others. We read a new classic every 4-6 weeks, and meet biweekly to discuss. We are just starting The Brothers Karamazov, the greatest psychological novel ever written. You do NOT want to miss this. Take out a paid subscription if you'd like to support us and join the discussions directly — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next See you inside!

54% of US adults (age 16-74) — roughly 130 million people — read below a 6th-grade level. Why is nobody talking about this? To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization. If the collapse in reading is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. Every 4-6 weeks, we read a new great work together: we've covered texts like Homer's Iliad, Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, and Don Quixote. We're about to start reading The Brothers Karamazov. We are reading the great works slowly, intentionally, and in dialogue with each other. If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group. Consider a paid subscription if you'd like to support — it makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. We are entirely funded by our members. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next Welcome!

We have voted to read The Brothers Karamazov next in the book club! Join our reading group if you want to study some of the greatest books ever written with us — in dialogue with each other. First discussion is on Augu 4, covering Books 1–4. It's going to be an incredible journey... 🙌

If schools and universities refuse to teach the great books of the West, we must do it ourselves. We started an independent group to study the greatest texts of the Western canon, together. ...and we are now 900 members strong! 🙌 We're about to start our 14th book: we've just voted to read "The Brothers Karamazov" next. If this is something you'd like to be a part of, join our reading group. You can simply read along with us and tune into the broadcasts, or join our smaller "inner circle" and be part of the discussions directly. Every session seems even better than the last at the moment. Thank you all for taking this so seriously, it's a pleasure to study alongside all of you. Become a paid member if you'd like to support — it makes a huge difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this. You'll get: - Live book club discussions (biweekly) - Access to our incredible community chat - Essays to guide you through the Great Books - All past recordings, essays, and podcasts - Ability to vote on what we read next Welcome!