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 contact your library branch for help placing a request. You will need to provide your contact information, the title and number of copies desired, date you want to pick them up (no more than 10 days in advance), and library pickup location. You will be notified when your set is ready to be picked up or if your desired title and quantity are not available.

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• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
• The Bad Muslim Discount by Syed Masood
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
• The Call Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
• The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama
• The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
• The Deep by Rivers Solomon
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
• Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin
• Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie
• Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelly
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• Honor by Thrity Umrigar
• Horse by Geraldine Brooks
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
• How We Named the Stars by Andrés N. Ordorica
• I'm So Not Over You by Kosoko Jackson
• Indexing by Seanan McGuire
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
• The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• Love After the End by Joshua Whitehead
• The Midnight Library by Kevin Wilson
• The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• The Prophets by Robert Jones
• The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
• River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
• The Secret of Elephants by Vasundra Tailor
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Sorrowland by Rivers Soloman
• The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
• True Crime Story by Joseph Knox
• The Unfortunates by JK Chukwu
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
• Violeta by Isabel Allende
• West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
• 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

• 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
• A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan
• A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage
• How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

• The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon
• An Immense World by Ed Yong
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• The Last Fire Season by Manjula Martin
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• 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

• The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
• Save Yourself by Cameron Esposito
• Solito by Javier Zamora
• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
• Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
• Vegetable Kingdom by Terry Bryant
• A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
• 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
• The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
• Dead, Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
• 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
• Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

• In the Woods by Tana French
• Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
• Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
• The Maid by Nita Prose
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
• Murder on Red River by Marcie Rendon
• My Darkest Prayer by S. A. Cosby
• Now You See Us by Balli Kaur Jaswal
• Open Season by C.J. Box

• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Still Waters by Viveca Sten
• Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutano
• The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

• The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
• Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert

• I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

• Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See
• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
• Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt

• A veces despierto temblando by Ximena Santaolalla
• Amelio, mi coronel by Nacho Casas
• La cabeza de mi padre by Alma Murillo
• Catedrales by Claudia Piñeiro
• Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol by Mónica Ojeda
• Ciudad Real by Rosario Castellanos
• Cochabamba by Jorge F. Hernández
• La cocinera de Frida by Florencia Etcheves
• Corrido de amor y gloria: Una novela by Reyna Grande
• Le dedico mi silencio by Mario Vargas Llosa

• En Agosto nos vemos by Gabriel García Márquez
• Falsa liebre by Fernanda Melchor
• La Hacienda by Isabel Canas
• Las Madres by Esmeralda Santiago
• 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
• El pasado anda atras de nosotros by Juan Pablo Villalobos
• 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
• Las soldaderas by Elena Poniatowska
• El tercer paraíso by Cristian Alarcón
• 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