Meeting Information

Thursdays (7 PM) on the 4th Thursday of the Month:

July 22, August 26, September 23, and
October 28

St. Louis County Library
1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd.
St. Louis, MO  63131
(Lindbergh so. of Hwy 40/64)


You keep hearing the name of this novel and its main character on TV and radio as well as reading excerpts in major publications. The novel was published in 1957 and is considered to have been futuristic in time. Why is it now emerging as a "must read" in the media?

If you would like to know more about how this novel depicts a 21st century reality, join the Atlas Shrugged Book Club to discuss why it has become so popular at this time.



"Atlas Shrugged" was written as a popular novel and published by Random House in 1957. It is second in sales only to the bible.

Most remarkable about a novel in print for 50 years is the increasingly strong trend in sales over recent years.

Paperback sales by New American Library to the book trade averaged 77,600 copies a year in the 1980s, 95,200 copies a year in the 1990s, and in the current decade have averaged 166,003 a year.

After 50 years, annual sales are reaching all-time highs. In 2009, annual sales reached an all-time high of 520,000 copies.


PRIOR TO FIRST MEETING, PLEASE READ:
Read Atlas Shrugged Part 1, Chapters 1 through 9