Book Club Kits

Food for Thought: Book Club in a Box

Several book club kits are available for check-out. Each contains 8 copies of the book and a discussion guide. Some kits also include an audio version and/or a movie adaptation, when available.

Book club kits are checked out for 6 weeks. Overdue charges are $0.50 per day, maxing out at $5.00. They are not renewable.

The following titles are available in book club kits:

• Abercrombie Trail by Candace Simar
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
• America’s War: Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation on Their 150th Anniversaries
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
• Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
• The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
• Bypass by Joe Amato
• The Cape Ann by Faith Sullivan
• Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam by James M. McPherson
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Emma ; Pride & Prejudice ; Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Heart can be Filled Anywhere on Earth by Bill Holm
• The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• The Iliad by Homer
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
• In the Belly of Jonah: A Liv Bergen Mystery by Sandra Brannan
• The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
• The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• My Antonia by Willa Cather
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• Orphan Train by Christina Kline
• Pay It Forward (Young Reader’s Edition) by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Pyramid by Henning Mankell (Wallander #1)
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa Lee
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
• Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
• Sweet Land by Will Weaver
• Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Witness Tree by Amy Pendino
• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Click here to visit the catalog and view the Food for Thought kits.