Books We're Reading

These are books we've discussed lately, or will be reading soon in the book groups. Each of the book pages listed below contains links to other web sites, such as the book publisher's site, with information about the book or the author. There may be many other books or web sites on topics related to the book you're reading. Check with your reference librarian for pointers!

Click here for the list of Book Group titles available to local book clubs (indicated below with a red and white checkmark icon)

Click here for a list of Mystery Book Discussion Group titles

Click here for a list of Science Fiction Book Discussion Group titles

Click here for a list of The Canon titles (classic literature discussion group)

Titles in bold are NEW for 2007 - 2008

• After This
• All Over but the Shoutin'
• Angle of Repose
• Archivist
• Atonement
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
• Bee Season
• Bel Canto
• Birth of Venus
• Black Dog of Fate
• Book of Salt
• Case Histories
• Cold Mountain
• Color of Water
• Corelli's Mandolin
• Curious Incident of the
  Dog in the Night-time
• Daughter of Fortune
• Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Death of Vishnu
• Devil in the White City
• Digging to America
• Disgrace
• Dive from Clausen's Pier
• Dream of the Red Chamber
• Dreams from my Father
• Dubliners / Portrait
  of the Artist as a Young Man
• Echo Maker
• Empire Falls
• Enrique’s Journey
• Fahrenheit 451
• Fast Food Nation
• Finishing School
• Funny in Farsi

• Gilead
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Glass Castle
• God of Small Things
• Gracious Plenty
• Grapes of Wrath
• Growing Seasons
• Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• House for Mr. Biswas
• House of Sand and Fog
• House of the Spirits
• Hummingbird's Daughter
• In a Sunburned Country
• Into the Forest
• Jayber Crow
• Kite Runner
• Known World
• Ladies Auxiliary
• Left Hand of Darkness
• Life of Pi
• Lovely Bones
• Loving Pedro Infante
• Macbeth
• Madonnas of Leningrad
• March
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• My Year of Meats
• Never Let Me Go
• Nickel and Dimed
• Nine Parts of Desire

• Piano Tuner
• Plainsong
• Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
• Professor and the Madman
• Reader
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
• Red Tent
• Reservation Blues
• The Road
• Samurai's Garden
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend
• Secret Life of Bees
• Shadow Divers
• Shipping News
• Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• Small Wonder
• Snow
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Sometimes a Great Notion
• Sparrow
• Stranger in the Forest
• Suite Française
• Sweet Hereafter
• Talented Mr. Ripley
• Tender at the Bone
• Three Junes
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Too Close to the Falls
• Tortilla Curtain
• Truck: A Love Story
• Truth and Beauty
• Water for Elephants
• When All the World Was Young
• Woman Warrior
• Worst Hard Time
• Year of Wonders

Find out more: Read-alikes and bibliographies from NoveList and Literature Resource Center, New & Noteworthy titles at the Library, Sonoma County Reads

Book discussion guides, articles, author interviews and biographies.

• NoveList (for newer fiction)
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• Literature Resource Center (for classic fiction and contemporary literature)
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• New & Noteworthy (lists of new audiobooks and award-winners you can check out of the library)
  
  
• Sonoma County Reads! (past titles from our annual county-wide reading program)