Book Sets for Book Groups

This list is updated annually in January.

Looking for a set of tried-and-true books for your book club's next discussion? These titles used in our past book discussions are available to local book clubs, with an extended checkout period of six weeks.

Please call your Library branch to inquire about availability, dates, and quantities for each title.

Looking for book club advice and recommendations? Booklist Blog has resources for you.

• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
• The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed Masood
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
• The Call Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
• Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
• Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin
• Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

• Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Honor by Thrity Umrigar
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
• How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
• I'm So Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson
• Indexing by Seanan McGuire
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Love After the End by Joshua Whitehead
• The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• One Last Stop by Casey Mcquiston
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• The Removed by Brandon Hobson
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Sorrowland by Rivers Soloman
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• True Crime Story by Joseph Knox
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
• Violeta by Isabel Allende
• The Whole Town’s Talking by Fannie Flagg
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

• Ace by Angela Chen
• The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
• Birds by the Shore by Jennifer Ackerman
• Black Food by Terry Bryant
• The Carrying by Ada Limon
• The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
• Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
• The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martin
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Nepantla by Christopher Soto
• The Nineties by Chuck Klostermen
• Our Voice of Fire by Brandi Morin
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome
• Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
• Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
• Vegetable Kingdom by Terry Bryant
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lord

• All Her Little Secrets by Wanda Morris
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala
• The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra
• Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
• A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• Dead, Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
• Dear Child by Romy Hausmann
• Dirt Creek by Hayley Scrivenor
• An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten

• A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
• Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
• Heaven My Home by Attica Locke
• The Holdout by Graham Moore
• Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall
• The Last Place you Look by Kristen Lepionka
• The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
• The Maid by Nita Prose
• Murder on Red River by Marcie Rendon
• My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby

• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Still Waters by Viveca Sten
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutano
• The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• The Whisper Man by Alex North
• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See

• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

• The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

• A veces despierto temblando by Ximena Santaolalla
• La cabeza de mi padre by Alma Murillo
• Carta de un Ateo Guatemalteco al Santo Padre by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
• Catedrales by Claudia Piñeiro
• Ciudad Real by Rosario Castellanos
• La cocinera de Frida by Florencia Etcheves
• Corrido de amor y gloria: Una novela by Reyna Grande

• Ella Entró por la Ventana del Baño by Elmer Mendoza
• Falsa liebre by Fernanda Melchor
• La Hacienda by Isabel Canas
• Lejos by Santiago Roncagliolo
• Los hijos de la Diosa Huracán by Daina Chaviano
• Mapas difusos by Cristina Garcia
• Mujer Sin Vergüenza by Sandra Cisneros
• La noche se me fue de las manos by Max Ehrsam
• Qué hacer con estos pedazos by Piedad Bonnett

• Radicales libres by Rosa Beltran
• Salvo mi corazon, todo esta bien by Hector Abad Faciolince
• Los Santos Inocentes by Miguel Delibes
• La Senora March by Virginia Feito
• Todos nosotros by Enrique Ferrari
• Tongolele no sabía bailar by Sergio Ramirez
• El ultimo sueno by Pedro Almodovar
• El viento que arrasa by Selva Almada
• Valle de sombras by Rudy Ruiz