Book Discussion Kits


Stumped for your discussion group's next book to read? We can help!

Try one of our book discussion kits. Each kit includes ten copies of the same book with book discussion questions and author information. Kits can be checked out for six weeks.

Kits for Adults    |    Kits for Children    |    Kits for Teens

Kits for Adults

The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bel Canto: A Novel by Ann Patchett

Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

Blessings by Anna Quindlen

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller

Embers by Sandor Marai

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel

Little Princes by Conor Grennan

Look Again by Lisa Scottoline

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Plainsong by Kent Haruf

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

The Road from Coorain by Jill K. Conway

The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham

Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America by Gelareh Asayesh

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Three Junes by Julia Glass

The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

Waiting by Ha Jin

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Kits for Children

The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen

How Tia Lola Came to Visit Stay by Julia Alvarez

No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman

Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret

The Janitor’s Boy by Andrew Clements

Kits for Teens

145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers

After by Francine Prose

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud

Dunk by David Lubar

The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci

I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman

Bindi Babes by Narinder Dhami

Book discussion groups

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