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Past Book Discussion Titles

We encourage local book discussion groups to check out these books for their discussions. The library has approximately 8 –15 copies of each of the titles on this list. If more are needed, we would be happy to request them from other libraries. We hope you find these books as enjoyable as we did.

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu by Tony Ardizzone

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett

Elegy for Iris by John Bayley

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Postville by Stephen G. Bloom

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

The Tortilla Curtain  by T. C. Boyle

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clark

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper

Levi's Will by W. Dale Cramer

Sleeping Arrangements by Laura Shaine Cunningham

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni

Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr

Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig

Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

A Northern Light  by Jennifer Donnelly

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Lost City  by Alan Ehrenhalt

The Plague of Doves  by Louise Erdrich

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

The Journey by Ida Fink

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

Headlong by Michael Frayn

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman

July's People by Nadine Gordimer

Shadow of Ashland by Terence M. Green

Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Water for Elephants  by Sara Gruen

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman

Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Brave new world  by Aldous Huxley

The Fourth Hand by John Irving

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish

Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

The Bear Went Over the Mountain by William Kotzwinkle

Under the Banner of Heaven  by Jon Krakauer

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Left Behind by Tim LaHaye

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Finding George Orwell in Burma by Emma Larkin

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Native Speaker by Chang Rae Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv

No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod

Strange Fruit by David Margolick

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

Faith of My Fathers by John McCain

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

All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Atonement by Ian McEwan

I Was Amelia Earhart by Jane Mendelsohn

Lies of Silence by Brian Moore

The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore

The Statement by Brian Moore

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Ice Bound by Jerri Nielsen

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Gravedigger's Daughter  by Joyce Carol Oates

The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates

Dreams from My Father  by Barack Obama

Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki

Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl

The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine  by Steve Rinella

Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez

Sarah's Key  by Tatiana de Rosnay

Everyman by Philip Roth

Straight Man by Richard Russo

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

The Handyman by Carolyn See

On Gold Mountain by Lisa See

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society  by Mary Ann Shaffer

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

Five Finger Discount by Helene Stapinski

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Places In Between by Rory Stewart

The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani

Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Morality Play by Barry Unsworth

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson

The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Honeymoon With My Brother by Franz Wisner

Endurance by Frank Worsley

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

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