The Best Novels You Haven’t Read

October 10, 2011, 6:00 PM

The Book Club of California
312 Sutter St., Suite 500

Free

Co-presented by the Stanford Humanities Center and UC Berkeley’s Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities

Novels have captured readers’ imaginations for hundreds of years. What is it about this literary form that keeps people coming back for more? Scholars from UC Berkeley and Stanford come together to discuss the evolution of the novel, and uncover some novelistic gems overlooked by the reading public.

Kent Puckett, Nancy Ruttenburg, Ramón Saldívar, Namwali Serpell

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