Books for Book Clubs

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:

General Fiction
Non-fiction/Biography
Science Fiction

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Fiction

• The Archivist by Martha Cooley
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
• The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
• Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
• The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
• The Dream of the Red Chamber by Chan Ts'ao (Cao Xueqin)
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Finishing School by Gail Godwin
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• A Gracious Plenty by Sheri Reynolds
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
• Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
• Zorro by Isabel Allende

Non-fiction / Biography

• Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
• Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
• Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
• When All the World Was Young by Barbara Holland
• The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

Science Fiction

From the Philip K. Dick Award book discussion group:

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

From the general book discussion groups:

• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin