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
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• 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
• 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
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
• How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
• 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
• 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
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• True Crime Story by Joseph Knox
• The Whole Town’s Talking by Fannie Flagg
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

• Ace by Angela Chen
• The Carrying by Ada Limon
• Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Nepantla by Christopher Soto
• Our Voice of Fire by Brandi Morin
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
• Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

• All Her Little Secrets by Wanda Morris
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala
• Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
• A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• Dear Child by Romy Hausmann
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

• 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 Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• 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

• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons

• The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

• 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
• Corrido de amor y gloria: Una novela by Reyna Grande

• Ella Entró por la Ventana del Baño by Elmer Mendoza

• Radicales libres by Rosa Beltran
• Los Santos Inocentes by Miguel Delibes
• Todos nosotros by Enrique Ferrari
• Tongolele no sabía bailar by Sergio Ramirez
• El viento que arrasa by Selva Almada