TIMELINE

* The Big Read-In, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 3, Washington Park

* Movie "The Island," 6 p.m. Sept. 15, Library Meeting Room

* Movie "Gattaca," 6 p.m. Sept. 22, Library Meeting Room

* Movie "Fahrenheit 451," 6 p.m. Sept. 29, Library Meeting Room

* Forum "Virtual Wars: Censorship Online," 6 p.m. Oct. 1, Library Meeting Room

* Discussion, "Fahrenheit 451: From Fiction to Reality?," 6 p.m. Oct. 3, Great Debate Books, Sixth and Maine

For reservations, call 223-1309.

All of the Quincy Public Library's book clubs will be discussing "Fahrenheit 451" during September. Residents are invited to join in:

* 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3, Library Meeting Room

* 7 p.m. Sept. 9, Panera Bread Company

* 1:30 p.m. Sept. 10, Friends of the Library Meeting Room

* 5 p.m. Sept. 10, Library Meeting Room (teens only)

* 1:30 p.m. Sept. 16, Library Meeting Room

OTHER TITLES BEING PROMOTED BY THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES:

"Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

"My Antonia" by Willa Cather

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest J. Gaines

"The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett

"A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

"A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula LeGuin

"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London

"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

"The Shawl" by Cynthina Ozick

"Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson

"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck

"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" by Leo Tolstoy

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain

"The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton

"Old School" by Tobias Wolff

"Washington Square" by Henry James

"The Thief and the Dogs" by Naguib Mahfouz

ON THE 'NET:

www.quincylibrary.org, www.neabigread.org