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Books for your book club or just for you.


Stressed out about book club?

The Library is here to help!

 

Can't decide on your next title?

 Our Book Club Collection has 6-12 copies of proven book club titles available for checkout. 

 

Don't know what to discuss?

Use the "Questions" link under the title and author to get a synopsis, discussion questions and read-a-likes.  To return to this page, use your browser's back button.

 

Fiction

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Questions

Digging to American by Anne Tyler
Questions

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Questions

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Questions

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Questions

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Questions

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
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Little Bee by Chris Cleave
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Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Questions

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
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The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Questions

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Questions

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Questions

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Questions

Non-Fiction

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Questions

Kabul Beauty School:  An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Debra Rodriguez
Questions

The Lemon Tree:  An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
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Manhunt:  The Twelve Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
Questions

The Other Wes Moore:  One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
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The River of Doubt:  Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman 
Questions

 

 
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And we have so many events going on, and quiet places to read, or computers to use, it's a good place for anyone, one person or even the whole family, to spend a couple of hours avoiding the cold of winter or the heat of summer.

 
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