Downtown Huntsville Library
We The Readers - ONLINE
Tuesday, September 15, 2026 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Celebrate the 250th anniversary of The Declaration of Independence this year with a search for The Great American Novel. This is a virtual meeting using GoToMeeting.
This month we are reading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, published 1985.
Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction.
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian represents a genius vision of the historical West, one whose stature has only grown in the years since its publication.
Next month: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
In Person- First Tuesday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the Downtown Huntsville Public Library in the 2nd Floor Workforce Classroom
Virtual- Fourth Tuesday of the month at 6:00 p.m. online at GoToMeeting.