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Book Club in a Bag

Is your book discussion group looking for new titles? Can’t get enough copies of the book? Check out our Book Club in a Bag kits.

 

Our Book Club in a Bag kits include 10 copies of the book, discussion questions and author background information to get you started, and some suggestions for additional resources (websites and books about book discussion groups). Kits are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Your book discussion group leader or facilitator is responsible for checking out and returning the entire kit. You may borrow one kit at a time for six weeks. For a complete list of titles with synopses, please click here.

The library currently has over 50 kits. Each kit includes:

  • Book Club in a Bag guidelines
  • 10 Copies of the selected book
  • Discussion questions
  • Author background information
  • Resources for readers

Book Club in a Bag Titles

The Apple Orchard Susan Wiggs
Auē Becky Manawatu
Bird Box Josh Malerman
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Breaking of Eggs Jim Powell
The Buddha in the Attic Julie Otsuka
C’est La Folie Michael Wright
Chappy Patricia Grace 
The Children Act Ian McEwan
The Chimes Anna Smaill
China Dolls Lisa See
Collected Stories Patricia Grace
The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry   Gabrielle Zevin
Crooked House Agatha Christie
Crow Lake Mary Lawson
The Cuckoo’s Calling Robert Galbraith
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery
Elizabeth is Missing Emma Healey
The End of Your Life Book Club Will Schwalbe
The Essex Serpent  Sarah Perry
Eyrie Tim Winton
Faceless Killers Henning Mankell
The Feather Thief Kirk Wallace Johnson
Featherhood Charlie Gilmour

The Forrests

Emily Perkins

From the Centre: A Writer's Life

Patricia Grace

Gabriel’s Bay Catherine Robertson
The Girl on the Train  Paula Hawkins 
The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeannette Walls
A God in Ruins Kate Atkinson
Gone Girl    Gillian Flynn 
Grand: becoming my mother's daughter Noelle McCarthy
The Green Road  Anne Enright
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society  Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows    
Heloise Mandy Hager
Holding  Graham Norton
How Hard Can it Be? Allison Pearson
I Am, I Am, I Am Maggie O’Farrell
I Capture the Castle Dodie Smith
Just a Mum Rachel Goodman
Lady in Waiting Anne Glenconner
Life After Life  Kate Atkinson 
The Light Between Oceans M.L. Stedman
Lion Saroo Brierley with Larry Buttrose
Lost City of Z  David Grann
Love Anthony  Lisa Genova 
Me Before You Jojo Moyes
Me Talk Pretty One Day  David Sedaris 
The Memory of Love  Aminatta Forna 
The Midnight Library Matt Haig
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
Montana 1948 Larry Watson
My Salinger Year Joanna Rakoff
The Narrow Road to the Deep North  Richard Flanagan 
The Nightingale  Kristin Hannah
Normal People  Sally Rooney
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of  the Window and Disappeared   Jonas Jonasson 
One Life Kate Grenville
Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald
The Scandal  Fredrik Backman 
The Secret Life of Luke Livingstone Charity Norman
The Sense of an Ending  Julian Barnes
The Seven Sisters Lucinda Riley
Sodden Downstream Brannavan Gnanalingam
A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler
State of Wonder  Ann Patchett 
The Storyteller  Jodi Picoult 
A Street Cat Named Bob James Bowen 
Sun, Sea and Sustenance Di Buchan
To be fair: Confessions of a District Court Judge Rosemary Riddell
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep H.G. Parry
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry  Rachel Joyce 
Victory Park Rachel Kerr
Warlight Michael Ondaatje
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi
The Wonder Emma Donoghue
Wool  Hugh Howey 
Updated 30/9/2022
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