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Book Club Kits Available Through Your Library


A Book Club Kit includes a tote bag with multiple copies of a title plus a discussion guide, which includes author biographies, book reviews, discussion questions and other information to help you host a great meeting!

Below is a listing of more than 150 Book Club Kit titles from which you can choose. Once you have selected a title, please contact a staff person below to request a Book Club Kit. Or you can request your Book Club Kit using our online form.  Please allow at least two (2) weeks to process your request before your pickup date. All copies of the book will be checked out to one member of the group and can be kept for up to seven (7) weeks. Also note that we cannot request books more than four (4) weeks in advance of your pickup date.

Review the list of Book Club Kit titles available below!

Fiction Non-Fiction


The following staff members can be contacted for any related questions:

Fiction                Order a book club kit

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Baby Brother's Blues by Pearl Cleage

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

Bee Season by Myla Goldberg

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Bread Alone by Judith Ryan Hendricks

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman

Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Down River by John Hart
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Emma by Jane Austen

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith

Family Linen by Lee Smith

The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter

Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah
The Fixer-Upper by Mary Kay Andrews
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs

Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls
The Help by Katherine Stockett
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

Interpeter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

The Last Sin Eater by Francine Rivers

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Like Dandelion Dust by Karen Kingsbury

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Lottery by Patricia Wood
Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

March by Geraldine Brooks
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall-Smith

Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys

Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

A Painted House by John Grisham

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

The Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman

Raney by Clyde Edgerton

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier

The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman

Sea Glass by Anita Shreve

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shack by William Young
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

A Short History of a Small Place by T.R. Pearson

Sister of My Heart by Chitra Divakaruni

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel

South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

Straight Man by Richard Russo

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Three Junes by Julia Glass

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Unless by Carol Shields

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Wedding by Dorothy West

What is the What by Dave Eggers
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Non-Fiction                Order a book club kit

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Black White and Jewish by Rebecca Walker

Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
The Color of Water by James McBride

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Dewey: a small-town library cat by Vicki Myron
Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Having Our Say by Sarah Delany
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer 
Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor

The Liar's Club by Mary Karr

The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Taylor

Night by Elie Wiesel

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Picking Cotton by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

The Road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

Stiff by Mary Roach
The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

 
More discussion guides are available. If you don’t see what you are looking for, check with your local library.