The Atlanta Antiquarian Book Circle consists of collectors who
meet monthly to update each other on the latest books news and to show books
from our respective collections. We do
not read and discuss a specific book like most book clubs; instead, we pick a
topic each month and present and discuss titles from our collections fitting
that month's theme.
The index below lists the topics from previous meetings, shown in
reverse chronological order. While the
group has met regularly since 1991, a list of themes dates back only to
mid-2011. This blog begins with the
September 2018 meeting.
Month Topic
2025 February Favorite Acquisitions of 2024
2025 January Short Stories: Collections and Anthologies
2024 December Science Fiction (Pre-1960)
2024 November Radio
2024
October Poetry
2024
September Private
Eye & Detective Stories
2024
August Native
Americans, First Nations & Indigenous Peoples
2024
July Americana
2024
June Favorite
Characters
2024
May Booklets, Pamphlets, and
Leaflets
2024
April Books
in Translation
2024
March Music
in Literature
2024
February Villains
2024
January Epistolary
Novels and Letters
2023
December Georgia
Authors (who are not Margaret Mitchell)
2023
November Shakespeare
2023
October Gothic
Fiction or Horror
2023
September Title
or Edition You Want to Upgrade
2023
August Animal
Stories
2023
July Art
Books
2023
June Biography
2023
May Westerns
2023
April Flight,
Aviators, and Airplanes
2023
March Time
Travel and Bizarre Science Fiction
2023
February Books
on Books; Bibliographies
2023
January Gift
Books
2022
December Comics
and Graphic Novels
2022
November "A
Quaint and Curious Volume of Forgotten Lore"
2022
October The
Book as Object
2022
September Favorite
First Lines
2022
May Black
Authors
2022
March Pioneers
2022
February Greatest
Find, Greatest Buy
2022
January Libraries
and Ex-library Books
2021
December Mountains
2021
November Travel
Fiction
2021
October Early
Twentieth Century Female Authors
2021
September The
Roman Empire
2021
August Temperance
& Prohibition
2021
July Lost
Manuscripts
2021
June Books
Published in the 1920s
2021
May Dreams
2021
April Pre-2000
Dust Jacket and Book Cover Design
2021
March Typeface,
Fonts, and Lettering
2021
February Anniversary
Edition Books
2021
January Childhood
2020
December Books
Received as Gifts
2020
November Bibliofiction,
Bibliomystery, Bibliononfiction
2020
October Books
by Incarcerated or Institutionalized Writers
2020
September Outdoor
Living
2020
August Viruses
and Pandemics
2020
June COVID-19
Isolation Acquisitions
2020
March Spiritualism
and Parapsychology
2020
February Books
in Series
2020
January Acquisition
Stories
2019
November Transportation
2019
October Time
2019
September Photography
2019
August Crime:
True or Otherwise
2019
July Provenance
and Association Copies
2019
June Various
Editions of a Title
2019
May Interesting
Dust Jackets and Their Stories
2019
April Explorers
and Trailblazers
2019
March Historic
American Leaders
2019
February Romance
2019
January Private
Press: Fine Press & Small Press
2018
November Military
History
2018
October Catalogs:
Auction and Dealer; Bibliographies
2018
September Charles
Dickens
2018
July Plays
2018
June Tragedies; Travel
2018
May Foreign Language, Bilingual,
Dual edition, etc.
2018
April Antarctica,
Arctic; Items Found in Books
2018
March Irish, Ireland,
Green, Luck, Lucky Finds
2018
February Anthologies
2018
January Writing in Books,
Marginalia, Inscriptions; Frankenstein
2017
December Christmas
2017
November Oldest book; First
collectible; Posthumously-published books
2017
October Collector's Option
2017
September Book Plates
2017
August The Middle East
2017
July Maritime
2017
June Medical Books
2017
April Best Book
Backstories
2017
February Signed Limited
Editions
2017
January Miniature Books
2016
December Cookbooks
2016
November Literary Hoaxes &
Pseudonymous Writings
2016
October Autumn, Fall
2016
September Books into Film
2016
August Gothic; early- to
mid-19th C
2016
July American History
2016
June Children's book by
non-children's-book-authors
2016
May South of the Border
(Cinco de Mayo); The West, Cowboys & Indians
2016
April Book Repair
2016
March House and Home
2016
February Black History
2016
January Bibliographies;
Weird Books
2015
December Early Mystery,
Victorian Mystery
2015
November Bad Books
2015
October Natural History,
Natural Science
2015
September Pirated/Bootleg
editions; Pioneering Women
2015
August Dust Jacket Art
2015
July 1960s,
Counterculture
2015
June Games
2015
May Literary Prize
Winners
2015
March Seafaring
2015
February Limited Editions
2015
January Fantasy and Science
Fiction
2014
December Holiday, Christmas
2014
November Points of Issue, States
of Printings
2014
October Halloween: Ghost
Stories, Horror, etc.
2014
September World Leaders
2014
August Art & Artists
2014
July Red, White, &
Blue
2014
June Civil War
(1861-1865) & Related Period (1860s)
2014
May Music
2014
April Death
2014
March Poetry
2014
February Bindings
2014
January Soldier's Journals,
Memoirs, etc.
2013
December Religion
2013
November Crime & Detective:
Fact or Fiction
2013
October Sports
2013
September Trains & Railroads:
Fact or Fiction
2013
August Maps &
Exploration
2013
June Ecology
2013
May Unexpected
Surprises
2013
April Publishers: Books
By, Histories, Self-Published
2013
March Social Consciousness
in Literature
2013
February Fables, Folk Lore,
Fairies
2013
January Gone With the Wind,
Historical Southern
2012
December Forts; Festivals, Fairs
& Expositions
2012
November Book Plates; Association
Copies (Part 2)
2012
October Association Copies
2012
September Classic Horror
2012
August Graphic Novels,
Comics, and Similar
2012
July Books to
Defend/Justify Having in Collection
2012
June Memoirs, Letters, Autobiographies
2012
May Disasters /
Tragedies
2012
March Heroes &
Heroines
2012
February Personal Stories
Behind the Books
2012
January Books on Books
2011
December Illustrators
2011
November Rare & Scarce
2011
October Historical People in
Fiction
2011
September Banned Books
2011
August Science
2011
July Favorite Dust
Jackets
2011
June Animals
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