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"If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. "


— Arthur Helps

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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!

  • 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
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
  • Arthur and George, by Julian Barnes
  • Autobiography of a Face, by Lucy Grealy
  • Awakening, by Kate Chopin
  • Babel Tower, by A.S. Byatt
  • Baker Towers, by Jennifer Haigh
  • On The Beach, by Nevil Shute
  • Between, Georgia, by Joshilyn Jackson
  • Birds in Fall, by Brad Kessler
  • Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
  • Book Borrower, by Alice Mattison
  • Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
  • Cane River, by Lalita Tademy
  • Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
  • Cheat and Charmer, by Elizabeth Frank
  • China Boy, by Gus Lee
  • Chosen, by Chaim Potok
  • The Clothes They Stood Up In, by Alan Bennett
  • In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
  • 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
  • Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama
  • East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
  • The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery
  • 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
  • Final Vinyl Days, by Jill McCorkle
  • 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: A Romance, by Elizabeth McCracken
  • 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
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Annie Barrows
  • 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 on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
  • Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
  • 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
  • Ishi, by Theodora Kroebe
  • Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley
  • Kaaterskill Falls, by Allegra Goodman
  • The Lady and the Unicorn, by Tracy Chevalier
  • Lake of Dead Languages, by Carol Goodman
  • 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
  • Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
  • Longitude, by Dava Sobel
  • Lost Horizon, by James Hilton
  • The Love of a Good Woman, by Alice Munro
  • Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
  • 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
  • One Thousand White Women, by Jim Fergus
  • Open Secrets, by Alice Munro
  • Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
  • Paradise, by Toni Morrison
  • Patty Jane's House of Curl, by Lorna Landvik
  • The Peppered Moth, by Margaret Drabble
  • The Pianist, by Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • 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
  • Push, by Sapphire
  • Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang
  • A Reliable Wife, by Robert Goolrick
  • 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
  • A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
  • The Shack, by William Paul Young
  • Shadow Divers, by Robert Kurson
  • Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett
  • 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
  • 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
  • The story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
  • A Sudden Country, by Karen Fisher
  • Sweetwater, by Roxana Robinson
  • Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer
  • Tender at the Bone, by Ruth Reichl
  • 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
  • Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
  • Virgin Blue, by Tracy Chevalier
  • A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons
  • The Voyage of the Narwbal, by Andrea Barrett
  • A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson
  • Washington's Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer
  • 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
  • Wild Life, by Molly Gloss
  • The Woman of Brewster Place, by Gloria Naylor
  • Woman Hollering Creek, by Sandra Cisneros
  • Women 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