Books for Book Clubs

These 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:

Fiction & non-fiction
Mystery
Science Fiction

Looking for book club advice and recommendations? Book Group Buzz has resources for you. A list of guides and web sites is also available at Masterpiece Book Club.

Fiction & non-fiction

• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
• Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
• The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Cellist of Sarajevo
• City of Thieves by David Benioff
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
• In the Sanctuary of Outcasts by Neil White
• A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
• My Ántonia by Willa Cather
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
• Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
• The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
• What is the What by Dave Eggers
• The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

Mystery

• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
• Boneyard by Michelle Gagnon
• The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas
• A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
• A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
• Deadly Intent by Lynda La Plante
• Demon of Dakar by Kjell Eriksson
• Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
• The Foreigner by Francie Lin
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Huge by James W. Fuerst
• In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
• In the Woods by Tana French
• Island of Lost Girls by Jennifer McMahon
• The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
• The Likeness by Tana French
• The Mermaid in the Basement by Gilbert Morris
• Murder in the Rue de Paradis by Cara Black
• Night Sins by Tami Hoag
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Partner in Crime by J. A. Jance
• Roadside Crosses by Jeffery Deaver
• Sacrifice by S. J. Bolton
• Shell Game by Carol O'Connell
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
• The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
• The Whole Truth by James Scott Bell
• Winter Study by Nevada Barr
• The Woods by Harlan Coben

Science Fiction

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