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"Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, thought and speculation at a standstill."
— Barbara Tuchman
Washington Post, Feb 7, 1989
Reader's Link - Book Kit Donations
We are currently collecting donated paperback copies of the following titles so that we can create new book discussion kits and also add more copies to existing kits. If you would like to donate one of these titles, bring it in to any branch library and mention that it is for a Book Discussion Kit. Thanks for your help!
- 1984, by George Orwell
- Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
- Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood
- Amateur Marriage, by Anne Tyler
- Amy and Isabelle, by Elizabeth Strout
- Anil's Ghost, by Michael Ondaatje
- Are You Somebody?, by Nuala O'Faolain
- Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes
- Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
- Awakening, by Kate Chopin
- Babel Tower, by A.S. Byatt
- On The Beach, by Nevil Shute
- Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
- Big Stone Gap, by Adriana Trigiani
- Birds in Fall, by Brad Kessler
- Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
- Book Borrower, by Alice Mattison
- The Bookseller of Kabul , by Asne Seierstad
- Broken for You, by Stephanie Kallos
- Cane River, by Lalita Tademy
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- China Boy, by Gus Lee
- Chosen, by Chaim Potok
- Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr
- The Clothes They Stood Up In, by Alan Bennett
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
- Color of Water, by James McBride
- Comfort Me With Apples, by Ruth Reichl
- The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer
- Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss
- The Crossing, by Cormac McCarthy
- Dancing at the Rascal Fair, by Ivan Doig
- Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat
- Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
- Divining women, by Kaye Gibbons
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller
- East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- Ella Minnow Pea, by Mark Dunn
- Emperor of Ocean Park, by Stephen L. Carter
- Empress Orchid, by Anchee Min
- Enemy Women, by Paulette Jiles
- Evensong, by Gail Godwin
- Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
- A False Sense of Well Being, by Jeanne Braselton
- Family Linen, by Lee Smith
- Farewell To Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
- Fasting, Feasting, by Anita Desai
- The Feast of Love, by Charles Baxter
- Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, by Tom Robbins
- Final Vinyl Days, by Jill McCorkle
- A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry
- Finn, by Jon Clinch
- Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime, by Diane Leslie
- Floating World, by Cynthia Gralla
- Into the Forest, by Jean Hegland
- Four Spirits, by Sena Jeter Naslund
- Georgiana:Duchess of Devonshire, by Amanda Foreman
- The Giant's House, by Elizabeth McCracken
- The Girls, by Lori Lansens
- Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
- Good Grief, by Lolly Winston
- Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
- A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libby Bray
- Great Fire, by Shirley Hazzard
- On Green Dolphin Street, by Sebastian Faulks
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
- Half a Life, by V.S. Naipaul
- Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- Happiness Sold Separately, by Lolly Winston
- Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou
- High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
- Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova
- Horse Heaven, by Jane Smiley
- Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
- House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul
- Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
- I Don't Know How She Does It, by Allison Pearson
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer
- Ironweed, by William Kennedy
- Ishi, by Theodora Kroebe
- Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley
- Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
- Ladder of Years, by Anne Tyler
- The Lady and the Unicorn, by Tracy Chevalier
- Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman
- Language of Threads, by Gail Tsukiyama
- Last Girls, by Lee Smith
- The Law of Similars, by Chris Bohjalian
- Leap of Faith, by Queen Noir
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
- The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt
- Longitude, by Dava Sobel
- Lost Horizon, by James Hilton
- The Love of a Good Woman, by Alice Munro
- Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
- Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love Walked In, by Marisa De Los Santos
- Lucia Lucia, by Adriana Trigiani
- The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks
- March, by Geraldine Brooks
- The Master Butchers Singing Club, by Louise Erdrich
- Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Measure of a Man, by Sidney Poitier
- Memory of War, by Frederick Busch
- The Mermaids Singing, by Lisa Carey
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
- The Milagro Beanfield War, by John Nichols
- The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall
- Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Monkey Bridge, by Lan Cao
- Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem
- Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder
- Mrs. Kimble, by Jennifer Haigh
- A Natural History of Love, by Diane Ackerman
- Night Inspector, by Frederick Busch
- Nine Parts of Desire, by Geraldine Brooks
- None To Accompany Me, by Nadine Gordimer
- Northern Light, by Jennifer Donelly
- That Old Ace in the Hole, by Annie Proulx
- Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout
- One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus
- Open Secrets, by Alice Munro
- Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
- Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
- Paradise, by Toni Morrison
- Patti Jones House of Curl, by Lorna Landvik
- Peony In Love, by Lisa See
- The Peppered Moth, by Margaret Drabble
- The Pianist, by Wladyslaw Szpilman
- Pigs In Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
- The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
- The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth
- Pope Joan, by Donna Woolfolk Cross
- Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- The Problem with Murmur Lee, by Connie May Fowler
- Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang
- Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama
- Saturday, by Ian McEwan
- Saving Grace, by Lee Smith
- The Season of Lillian Dawes, by Katherine Mosby
- The Secret Life of Lobsters, by Trevor Corson
- Secret History, by Donna Tartt
- The Secret Life of Lobsters, by Trevor Corson
- A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
- Shadow Divers, by Robert Kurson
- Signal and Noise, by John Griesemer
- Small Wonder, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg
- Snow Mountain Passage, by James D. Houston
- The Soloist , by Mark Salsman
- Song of the Exile, by Kiana Davenport
- Soul Mountain, by Gao Xingjian
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
- Speed of Light, by Elizabeth Rosner
- The Spellman Files, by Lisa Lutz
- Standing in the Rainbow, by Fannie Flagg
- Stones for Ibarra, by Harriet Doerr
- A Sudden Country, by Karen Fisher
- Sweetwater, by Roxana Robinson
- Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer
- The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
- The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
- Thousand Pieces of Gold, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
- Thunderstruck, by Erik Larson
- A Town Like Alice, by Nevil Shute
- Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, by Anne Lamott
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, by Elisabeth Robinson
- Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- Unless, by Carol Shields
- Virgin Blue, by Tracy Chevalier
- A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons
- The Voyage of the Narwbal, by Andrea Barrett
- Waiting, by Ha Jin
- A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
- Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
- The Weight of Water, by Anita Shreve
- What We Keep, by Elizabeth Berg
- When the Emperor was Divine, by Julie Otsuka
- When Madeline Was Young, by Jane Hamilton
- White Noise, by Don De Lillo
- White Oleander, by Janet Fitch
- Wild Life, by Molly Gloss
- The Woman of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor
- Woman Hollering Creek, by Sandra Cisneros
- Woman of the Silk, by Gail Tsukiyama
- The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
- The World Below, by Sue Miller
- The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, by Michael Dorris
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon
- You Remind Me of Me, by Dan Chaon
- The Zookeeper's Wife, by Diane Ackerman
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