Oct 28 | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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This October, we're reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. I'm particularly excited for this month's choice because I've never actually read the book before!
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Meeting Details
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
8 PM: Outdoor Movie Night! Free popcorn. Stick around after the movie to talk about whether the book or the movie was better, and to help us decide on next month's book pick!
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Where to Find the Book
Standard Edition Paperback
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Masterpiece Library Edition
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MinaLima Illustrated Deluxe Edition
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Audiobook
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Digital eBook
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Project Gutenberg (Free!) -> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84
Library App (Free!): https://share.libbyapp.com/title/784583
Kobo ($3.99): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/frankenstein-83
Book Description
More than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.”
For centuries, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level, it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination.