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

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Fiction

• After This by Alice McDermott
• 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
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler
• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
• The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
• Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond

Mystery

• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
• Boneyard by Michelle Gagnon
• Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
• Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella
• Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
• Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
• 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 Lighthouse by P. D. James
• A Long Shadow by Charles Todd
• The Mermaid in the Basement by Gilbert Morris
• Night Sins by Tami Hoag
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
• Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
• Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
• The Whole Truth by James Scott Bell
• 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
• Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry
• Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
• 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