Book Club in a Bag
Did you know you can check out a tote bag full of copies of the same book to use for your book discussion group? One person from your group can check out a bag that contains at least ten copies of a title and a book discussion guide with discussion questions, author biographies, and reviews. Each bag can be checked out for two months.
To view a list of available titles: Click “Search our catalog”, select Title Keyword or Series Browse, and type “Book Club in a Bag”. Click on “more” to see a list of our fiction and non-fiction selections.
Here are our fiction Book Club in a Bag kits (**added in 2019)**:
- Alvarez, Julia – In the Time of the Butterflies
- **Atkinson, Kate – Case Histories**
- Austen, Jane – Sense & Sensibility
- Backman, Fredrik – A Man Called Ove
- Backman, Fredrik – My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
- Bank, Melissa – The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- Barbery, Muriel – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- Benjamin, Melanie – The Aviator’s Wife
- Bohjalian, Christopher A. – The Double Bind
- Bohjalian, Christopher A. – Midwives
- Brooks, Geraldine – People of the Book
- Brooks, Geraldine – Year of Wonders
- Buchan, Elizabeth – Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
- Chevalier, Tracy – Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Christie, Agatha – Murder on the Orient Express
- Cisneros, Sandra – The House on Mango Street
- Cleave, Chris – Little Bee
- Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist
- Coetzee, J. M. – Slow Man
- Colgan, Jenny – The Bookshop on the Corner
- Conner, Amy – The Right Thing
- Cross, Donna Woolfolk – Pope Joan
- **Dai, Sijie – Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress**
- De los Santos, Marisa – Love Walked In
- Diamant, Anita – The Red Tent
- Diaz, Junot – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Diffenbaugh, Vanessa – The Language of Flowers
- Doerr, Anthony – All the Light We Cannot See
- Donoghue, Emma – Room
- Dubus III, Andre – House of Sand and Fog
- Edwards, Kim – The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- Fergus, Jim – One Thousand White Women
- Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
- Flynn, Gillian – Gone Girl
- **Foer, Jonathan – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close**
- Ford, Jamie – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- Forster, Margaret – The Unknown Bridesmaid
- Fowler, Karen Joy – The Jane Austen Book Club
- Genova, Lisa – Still Alice
- Golden, Arthur – Memoirs of a Geisha
- Green, John – The Fault in Our Stars
- Grissom, Kathleen – The Kitchen House
- Gruen, Sara – Water for Elephants
- Guterson, David – Snow Falling on Cedars
- Haddon, Mark – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Hamilton, Jane – A Map of the World
- Hannah, Kristin – The Nightingale
- Hawkins, Paula – The Girl on the Train
- Hoffman, Beth – Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
- Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
- Horowitz, Anthony – Magpie Murders
- Hosseini, Khaled – A Thousand Splendid Suns
- Irving, John – A Widow for One Year
- Jacobs, Kate – The Friday Night Knitting Club
- Karon, Jan – At Home in Mitford
- Kidd, Sue Monk – The Invention of Wings
Kidd, Sue Monk – The Mermaid Chair
Kidd, Sue Monk – The Secret Life of Bees - Kingsolver, Barbara – The Poisonwood Bible
- Kline, Christina Baker – Orphan Train
- Lahiri, Jhumpa – The Namesake
- Landvik, Lorna – Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
- **Lee, Min Jin – Pachinko**
- Letts, Billie – Where the Heart Is
- MacDonald, Ann-Marie – Fall on Your Knees
- Martel, Yann – Life of Pi
- McCall, Alexander Smith – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
McCall, Alexander Smith – 44 Scotland Street - McLain, Paula – The Paris Wife
- **Morgenstern, Erin – The Night Circus**
- **Morris, Heather – The Tattooist of Auschwitz**
- Morton, Kate – The Forgotten Garden
- Mosley, Walter – All I Did Was Shoot My Man
- Moyes, Jojo – Me Before You
- Obreht, Tea – The Tiger’s Wife
- O’Brien, Tim – The Things They Carried
- **Pearlman, Ann – The Christmas Cookie Club**
- **Rachman, Tom – The Imperfectionists**
- Robinson, Marilynne – Gilead
- Rosnay, Tatiana de – Sarah’s Key
- **Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things**
- Ruiz Zafón, Carlos – The Shadow of the Wind
- Russo, Richard – Empire Falls
- See, Lisa – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Setterfield, Diane – The Thirteenth Tale
- Shaffer, Mary Ann – The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
- Shreve, Anita – Sea Glass
- Simonson, Helen – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
- Simsion, Graeme – The Rosie Project
- Sittenfeld, Curtis – American Wife
- Stedman, M.L – The Light Between Oceans
- Stein, Garth – The Art of Racing in the Rain
- Stout, Elizabeth – Olive Kitteridge
- Toibin, Colm – Brooklyn
- Trigiani, Adriana – Big Stone Gap
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Vargas, Fred – The Chalk Circle Man
- Verghese, Abraham – Cutting for Stone
- Ware, Ruth – The Woman in Cabin 10
- **Weir, Andy – The Martian**
- Whitehead, Colson – The Underground Railroad
- **Wingate, Lisa – Before We Were Yours**
- Young, William – The Shack
- Zusak, Markus – The Book Thief
Here are our non-fiction Book Club in a Bag kits (includes biography and memoir) (**added in 2019)**:
- Ackerman, Diane – The Zookeeper’s Wife
- Albom, Mitch – Tuesdays with Morrie
Albom, Mitch – The Five People You Meet in Heaven - **Ambrose, Stephen E. – Band of Brothers**
- Beah, Ishamel – A Long Way Home
- Bates, Laura – Shakespeare Saved My Life
- Boo, Katherine – Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Bradley, James – Flags of Our Fathers
- Brown, Daniel – The Boys in the Boat
- Bryson, Bill – A Walk in the Woods
- Buck, Rinker – The Oregon Trail
- Coburn, Jennifer – We’ll Always Have Paris
- Conway, Jill Ker – The Road from Coorain
- Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs & Steel
- Didion, Joan – A Year of Magical Thinking
- Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Eire, Carlos – Waiting for Snow in Havana
- **Ephron, Nora – I Feel Bad about My Neck**
- Fey, Tina – Bossypants
- French, Paul – Midnight in Peking
- George, Rose – Ninety Percent of Everything
- Gladwell, Malcolm – The Tipping Point
- Hall, Ron – Same Kind of Different as Me
- **Harari, Yuval Noah – Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind**
- Hillenbrand, Laura – Seabiscuit
- Hillenbrand, Laura – Unbroken
- Hodgman, George – Bettyville
- Janzen, Rhoda – Mennonite in the Little Black Dress
- Keller, Helen – The Story of My Life
- Kerman, Piper – Orange Is the New Black
- Klobuchar, Amy – The Senator Next Door
- Kozol, Jonathan – Fire in the Ashes
Kozol, Jonathan – Theft of Memory - Krakauer, Jon – Into Thin Air
- Larson, Erik – The Devil in the White City
Larson, Erik – In the Garden of Beasts - Lopez, Steve – The Soloist
- McBride, James – The Color of Water
- Moehringer, J.R. – The Tender Bar
- **Moore, Kate – The Radium Girls**
- Mortenson, Greg – Three Cups of Tea
- **Noah, Trevor – Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood**
- **Orlean, Susan – The Library Book**
- Poitier, Sidney – Measure of a Man
- Pressman, Steve – 50 Children
- Regan, Margaret – Detained and Deported
- Roberts, Cokie – Founding Mothers
- Roosevelt, Eleanor – Tomorrow Is Now
- **Rubin, Gretchen – The Happiness Project**
- Ryan, Terry – The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
- Schwalbe, Will – The End of Your Life Book Club
- Sedaris, David – Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Shetterly, Margot Lee – Hidden Figures
- Sixsmith, Martin – Philomena
- Skloot, R. – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Sokolove, Michael – Drama High
- Sotomayor, Sonia – My Beloved World
- Strayed, Cheryl – Wild
- Summerscale, Kate – The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- Tirado, Linda – Hand to Mouth
- Vance, J.D. – Hillbilly Elegy
- Walls, Jeanette – The Glass Castle
- Wiesel, Elie – Night
- Yousafzai, Malala – I Am Malala