Books for Book Clubs

These titles used in our past book discussions are available to local book clubs. Please call your Library branch to inquire about availability dates and quantities for each title.

Categories:

Fiction
Mystery
Non-fiction/Biography
Science Fiction

Looking for book club advice and recommendations? Book Group Buzz has resources for you. A list of guides and web sites is also available at Masterpiece Book Club.

Fiction

• After This by Alice McDermott
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
• Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
• The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Cellist of Sarajevo
• City of Thieves by David Benioff
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• What is the What by Dave Eggers
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

Mystery

• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
• Boneyard by Michelle Gagnon
• The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
• Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
• A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
• A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
• Deadly Intent by Lynda La Plante
• Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella
• Demon of Dakar by Kjell Eriksson
• Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
• The Foreigner by Francie Lin
• Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
• Huge by James W. Fuerst
• In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
• In the Woods by Tana French
• Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
• The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman
• The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
• King of Lies by John Hart
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• The Lighthouse by P. D. James
• The Likeness by Tana French
• A Long Shadow by Charles Todd
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
• The Mermaid in the Basement by Gilbert Morris
• Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black
• Night Sins by Tami Hoag
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
• Partner in Crime by J. A. Jance
• Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver
• Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
• Shell Game by Carol O'Connell
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
• Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
• The Whole Truth by James Scott Bell
• Winter Study by Nevada Barr
• The Woods by Harlan Coben
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

Non-fiction / Biography

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
• Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
• Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
• The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

Science Fiction

• Ally by Karen Traviss
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust
• Gradisil by Adam Roberts
• Grey by Jon Armstrong
• Nova Swing by M. John Harrison
• Saturn Returns by Sean Williams
• Undertow by Elizabeth Bear