Adult Book Club Sets

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Book Club Sets for your group!

Now including fresh, recently purchased titles.

 

 

 

 

NEW! You can now borrow individual copies of our book club books! Just grab a copy from our Book Club Set shelf and check it out for 3 weeks just like any other library book. If you’d rather take multiple copies for your book group, you can still do that too!

 

Each set contains 6 copies (except as noted below).

BOOK CLUB IN A BAG SETS:

  • A little life : a novel / Hanya Yanagihara
  • A man called Ove / Fredrik Backman
  • A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki
  • All my puny sorrows / Miriam Toews
  • All the light we cannot see : A novel / Anthony Doerr
  • Book of sands / Karim Alwari
  • Do not say we have nothing / Madeleine Thien
  • Elegance / Kathleen Tessaro
  • Elephants in my backyard : a memoir / Rajiv Surendra.
  • Ellen in pieces / Caroline Adderson
  • Fallen / Kara Stanley
  • Girl on the train / Paula Hawkins
  • Go set a watchman / Harper Lee
  • Golden Son / Shilpi Somaya Gowda
  • H is for hawk / Helen Macdonald
  • Harem midwife / Roberta Rich
  • Inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America / Thomas King.
  • Laughing all the way to the mosque : a memoir of sorts from the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie / Zarqa Nawaz.
  • Light  between oceans : a novel / M.L. Stedman
  • Little Paris bookshop : a novel / Nina George
  • Man’s search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl
  • Medicine walk / Richard Wagamese
  • My brilliant friend : childhood, adolescence / Elena Ferrante
  • My name is Lucy Barton / Elizabeth Strout.
  • Night circus / Erin Morgenstern
  • Nobody cries at bingo/ Dawn Dumont
  • Paris wife / Paula McLain
  • Ragged company / Richard Wagamese.
  • Reason you walk / Wab Kinew
  • Red notice : a true story of high finance, murder, and one man’s fight for justice / Bill Browder.
  • Sellout / Paul Beatty
  • State of wonder / Ann Patchett
  • Sweetland / Michael Crummey 
  • Tell the wolves I’m home / Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Where’d you go, Bernadette? / Maria Semple
  • We are all completely besides ourselves / Karen Joy Fowler

 

 Frequently Asked Questions:

  • Loan period? Three weeks
  • Additional copies? You may be able find additional copies of certain titles in our catalogue.
  • Suggestions? We’re always open to suggestions for new titles.  Suggested titles must be available in paperback (usually about a year after hardcover publication).  The Library will not be able to purchase all suggested titles.

 

Starting Your Own Book Club?

Visit the links below for information on how to get your own book club going:

  • NoveList [library card needed]
    Includes book reviews, read-alikes, author biographies and discussion questions.
  • GoodReads Includes reader reviews, trivia, reading lists, etc.  You can choose to sign up and share book lists.
  • BookClubs.ca Focuses on Canadian titles and includes reading guides, information about author events, and books in the news.
  • BookTalk.org
    An online book club that anyone can join.
  • Oprah’s Book Club
    Includes recommended book lists, author interviews and more.
  • BookBrowse.com
    Includes reviews, previews, stories behind the books, author interviews, reading guides, and more.
  • Mostly, we eat!
    A long-running book club that includes recommended reads and advice on starting a book club.