Book Sets for Book Groups

This list is updated annually in January.

Looking for a set of tried-and-true books for your book club's next discussion? These titles used in our past book discussions are available to local book clubs, with an extended checkout period of six weeks.

Please call your Library branch to inquire about availability, dates, and quantities for each title.

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• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henríquez
• Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Cimarron by Edna Ferber
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
• Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
• Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• Everyone in this Room Will Someday be Dead by Emily Austin
• A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
• Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
• How Long Till Black Future Month by N.K. Jemisin
• The Immortalists by Benjamin Chloe
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Less by Andrew Sean Greer
• Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• The Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
• Love After the End by Joshua Whitehead
• The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• One Last Stop by Casey Mcquiston
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Passing by Nella Larsen
• The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• A Place for Us by Fatima Mirza
• Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• The Removed by Brandon Hobson
• Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson
• The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
• The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
• There There by Tommy Orange
• The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
• True Crime Story by Joseph Knox
• The Whole Town’s Talking by Fannie Flagg
• The Wife by Alafair Burke
• The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

• Ace by Angela Chen
• Born A Crime: stories from a South African childhood by Trevor Noah
• The Carrying by Ada Limon
• Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• Nepantla by Christopher Soto
• Our Voice of Fire by Brandi Morin
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
• Radium Girls by Kate Moore

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley Ford
• Tao Te Ching by Laozi
• Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby
• White Fragility by Robin J. DiAngelo

• All Her Little Secrets by Wanda Morris
• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia Manansala
• Cape Diamond by Ron Corbett
• The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
• Crimson Lake by Candice Fox
• A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn
• The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
• Dear Child by Romy Hausmann
• The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
• The Disappeared by C.J. Box

• A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper
• Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
• Heaven My Home by Attica Locke
• The Holdout by Graham Moore
• Land of Shadows by Rachel Howzell Hall
• The Last Place you Look by Kristen Lepionka
• The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim
• The Mitford Murders by Jessica Fellowes
• Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh

• The Punishment She Deserves by Elizabeth George
• Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• Too Far Gone by Allison Brennan
• The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
• The Western Star by Craig Johnson
• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• The Whisper Man by Alex North
• Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan
• The Borden Murders by Sarah Elizabeth Miller
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

• Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry
• I am not your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

• The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
• Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens by Marieke Nijkamp
• We are Okay by Nina LaCour

• A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano
• Donner Dinner Party by Nathan Hale
• Dragons in a Bag by Zetta Elliott
• Fire the Depths by Peter Lerangis
• The Hidden Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag

• The House that Lou Built by Mae Respicio
• The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
• The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman

• Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages
• The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away by Ronald L. Smith
• The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
• The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag

• La cabeza de mi padre by Alma Murillo
• Carta de un Ateo Guatemalteco al Santo Padre by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
• Catedrales by Claudia Piñeiro
• Ciudad Real by Rosario Castellanos
• Corrido de amor y gloria: Una novela by Reyna Grande
• Ella Entró por la Ventana del Baño by Elmer Mendoza
• La Fruta del Borrachero by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

• Los hijos de la Diosa Huracán by Daina Chaviano
• La Invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Largo Petalo de Mar by Isabel Allende
• Mujer Sin Vergüenza by Sandra Cisneros
• Un Mundo Para Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique
• La noche se me fue de las manos by Max Ehrsam
• Qué hacer con estos pedazos by Piedad Bonnett

• Radicales libres by Rosa Beltran
• Rayuela by Julio Cortázar
• El Reino De Este Mundo by Alejo Carpentier
• Los Santos Inocentes by Miguel Delibes
• Todos nosotros by Enrique Ferrari
• Tongolele no sabía bailar by Sergio Ramirez
• El viento que arrasa by Selva Almada