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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