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books for book club discussions

Multiple copies of these discussable books are available for a 6-week loan period. They are available on a first come, first served basis. Any patron may check out multiple copies of a title. Items are not renewable.

Nonfiction

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
The Blessing of a B Minus by Wendy Mogel
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Listening is an Act of Love edited by Dave Isay
Little Heathens by Mildred Kalish
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
The Social Animal by David Brooks
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand*
Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed*

Fiction

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Claude & Camille by Stephanie Cowell
Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Defending Jacob by William Landay*
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
Dreams of Joy by Lisa See
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
The Fault in our Stars by John Green*
A Fierce Radiance by Lauren Belfer
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn*
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Wall
The Healing by Jonathan Odell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Homer & Langley by E. L. Doctorow
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash*
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Child by John Hart
Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman*
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Morton's Fork by Dale Coy
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Nemesis by Philip Roth
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y. K. Lee
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji
Room by Emma Donoghue
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Shack by William P. Young
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Someone Knows my Name by Lawrence Hill
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey*
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon 
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan C. Bradley
The Things they Carried by Tim O'Brien
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce*
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The White Tiger by Adiga Aravind
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar*

*New to the collection

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