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Book Club Kits by Title

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The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
28 Summers
Elin Hilderbrand
32 Candles
Ernessa T. Carter
1984
George Orwell
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
Afterlife
Julia Alvarez
The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker
Agent Running in the Field
John Le Carré
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
All the Things You Are
Declan Hughes
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin
American Dervish
Ayad Akhtar
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Ape House
Sara Gruen
Apples Never Fall
Liane Moriarty
The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Chad Harbach
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein
Ask Again, Yes
Mary Beth Keane
At Home: A Short History of a Private Life
Bill Bryson
Away
Amy Bloom
Bad Axe County
John Galligan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dal Sijie
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too
Ijeoma Oluo
The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Before the Fall
Noah Hawley
Before We Were Yours
Lisa Wingate
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Kate Atkinson
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Belong to Me
Marisa De los Santos
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Big Summer
Jennifer Weiner
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy
Blacktop Wasteland
S.A. Cosby
Blessings
Anna Quindlen
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood
Blood, Bones and Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton
Blue Lake
Jeffrey D. Boldt
The Book of Longings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Kim Michele Richardson
The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Bossypants
Tina Fey
The Boy in the Shadows
Carl-Johan Vallgren
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Daniel James Brown
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bread and Butter
Michelle Wildgen
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Diaz
Broken for You
Stephanie Kallos
Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
Abe Streep
The Burgess Boys
Elizabeth Strout
A Burning
Megha Majumdar
Call Me By Your Name
André Aciman
Calling for a Blanket Dance
Oscar Hokeah
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Carry the One
Carol Anshaw
Case Histories
Kate Atkinson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow
The Chai House
Priti Srivastava
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Challenger Deep
Neal Shusterman
Change of Heart
Jodi Picoult
The Chatham School Affair
Thomas Cook
Chemistry
Weike Wang
The Cherry Harvest
Lucy Sanna
Circe
Madeline Miller
Circling the Sun
Paula McLain
City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert
Clark and Division
Naomi Hirahara
Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff
Clock Dance
Anne Tyler
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns
The Color of Water
James McBride
Come Home, Indio
Jim Terry
Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
Connecting Across Differences: Finding Common Ground With Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
Jane Marantz Connor
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
Crescent
Diana Abu-Jaber
Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Stegner
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Darius the Great is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Dead Lines: Slices of Life from the Obit Beat
George Hesselberg
Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean
Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
Death Comes to Pemberley
P. D. James
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Ruth Ware
Decolonizing Wealth
Edgar Villanueva
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Dewey: the Small Town Library Cat
Vicki Myron
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
Digging to America
Anne Tyler
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer
Dominicana
Angie Cruz
The Double Bind
Chris Bohjalian
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Driftless
David Rhodes
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett
Early Morning Riser
Katherine Heiny
Echoes from the Dead
Johan Theorin
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Educating Esme
Esme Codell
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Euphoria
Lily King
Every Last One
Anna Quindlen
Every Summer After
Carley Fortune
Everybody's Fool
Richard Russo
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Fifty Words for Rain
Asha Lemmie
Finlay Donovan is Killing It
Elle Cosimano
Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
Kim Phúc
Fleishman is in Trouble
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Victoria Zackheim
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café
Fannie Flagg
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
The Girl You Left Behind
Jojo Moyes
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
The Girls
Emma Cline
The Giver of Stars
Jojo Moyes
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Devil
Helene Tursten
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Go Set a Watchman
Harper Lee
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
David Maraniss
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
Margaret Renkl
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann and Annie Barrows Shaffer
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Jeannette Walls
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Happiness Project: or, the Way I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right...
Gretchen Rubin
Happy Place
Emily Henry
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Have Mercy on Us All
Fred Vargas
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Honey and Spice
Bolu Babalola
Horse
Geraldine Brooks
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Brian Alexander
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Jamie Ford
The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea
The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
House Rules : a novel
Jodi Piccoult
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Madeline Uraneck
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai
I Know What You Did
Cayce Osborne
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
In the Unlikely Event
Judy Blume
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting With Destiny
Laura Schroff
Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson
The Island of Sea Women
Lisa See
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover
The It Girl
Ruth Ware
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein
Jewelweed
David Rhodes
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Killers of a Certain Age
Deanna Raybourn
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
LaRose
Louise Erdrich
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Learning to Stay
Erin Celello
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
The Leavers
Lisa Ko
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
Less
Andrew Sean Greer
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann
Let Us Descend
Jesmyn Ward
Let's Pretend This Never Happened : (A Mostly True Memoir)
Jenny Lawson
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Angela Garbes
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Little Faith
Nickolas Butler
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lucy
Ellen Feldman
Luster
Raven Leilani
Maame
Jessica George
Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
Magic City
Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Maid
Nita Prose
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
The Martian
Andy Weir
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Me Before You
JoJo Moyes
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F. Saad
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Minda Harts
Memorial
Bryan Washington
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Mink River
Brian Doyle
Mrs. Everything
Jennifer Weiner
Mrs. Fletcher
Tom Perrotta
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Jennifer Chiaverini
My Antonia
Willa Cather
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Danielle Evans
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again
Elizabeth Strout
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Last Stop
Casey McQuiston
Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger
Orphan Train
Christina Baker Kline
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Painting Beyond Walls
David Rhodes
The Paper Palace
Miranda Cowley Heller
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
The Paris Wife
Paula McLain
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
People We Meet on Vacation
Emily Henry
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
The Person You Mean to Be
Dolly Chugh
Pineapple Street
Jenny Jackson
A Place for Us
Fatima Farheen Mirza
Plainsong
Kent Haruf
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Michael Perry
The Postmistress
Sarah Blake
The President is Missing
Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Jason Karlawish
Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: a Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
The Reckoning
John Grisham
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
A Reliable Wife
Robert Goolrick
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
The Removed
Brandon Hobson
Rise and Shine
Anna Quindlen
The Rope
Nevada Barr
The Rosie Project
Graeame Simsion
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
Run
Ann Patchett
The Sanatorium
Sarah Pearse
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
J. Ryan Stradal
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
The Secrets We Kept
Lara Prescott
The Seed Keeper
Diane Wilson
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Send for Me
Lauren Fox
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families
Muriel Simms
Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Shotgun Lovesongs
Nickolas Butler
Shoulder Season
Christina Clancy
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
The Silver Star
Jeannette Walls
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
Spare
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
A Spark of Light
Jodi Picoult
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
A Spot of Bother
Mark Haddon
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
State of Terror
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Still Alice
Lisa Genova
Still Life
Louise Penny
The Storyteller
Jodi Picoult
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel
The Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
Summer of ‘69
Elin Hilderbrand
Swamplandia!
Karen Russell
The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
The Tears of the Giraffe
Alexander McCall Smith
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Ruth Reichl
That Old Cape Magic
Richard Russo
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
There There
Tommy Orange
This Tender Land
William Kent Krueger
Three Junes
Julia Glass
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
The Tortilla Curtain
T.C. Boyle
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry
True Biz
Sara Nović
Truly Madly Guilty
Liane Moriarty
Trust
Hernan Diaz
The Turk and My Mother
Mary Helen Stefaniak
The Turner House
Angela Flournoy
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World
Kimberly Nicholas, PhD
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones
Unshakeable Confidence: The Freedom to be Our Authentic Selves: Mindfulness for Women
Mare Chapman
Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
The Vacationers
Emma Straub
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Vintage
Susan Gloss
The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb
The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
We Are Not Like Them
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
We are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood
Jen Rubin
We Are the Brennans
Tracey Lange
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory
The Weird Sisters
Eleanor Brown
Welcome to the Great Mysterious
Lorna Landvik
West with Giraffes
Lynda Rutledge
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
Claire Jiménez
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
Where They Bury You
Steven W. Kohlhagen
Where'd You Go Bernadette?
Maria Semple
While Justice Sleeps
Stacey Abrams
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Winter Counts
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
The Witch Elm
Tana French
The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn
Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Women in the Castle
Jessica Shattuck
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age
Mary Bray Pipher
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman