Book Discussion Kits
From GRPLpedia
Do you belong to a Book Club? Or would you like to start one?
Check out our GRPL Book Discussion Kits or browse our list below.
- Each kit contains 10 copies of a title plus discussion questions and an author biography packed in a tote and ready to go!
- Kits check out for six weeks and can be found at the Main Branch.
- You can put holds on our kits and pick them up at any Grand Rapids Public Library!!
How to start a club
For some great ideas on how to make your book club a memorable experience check out the following sites :
Selected Titles
List of Book Club Kits
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute To His White Mother by James McBride
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
A Free Life by Ha Jin
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Larsson Stieg
The Girls by Lori Larsen
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeanette Walls
The Guernsey Literary and Patoto Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
The Ha-Ha by Dave King
The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Isadore's Secret: Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan Town by Mardi Link
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhoda Janzen
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
October Sky by Homer H. Hickham
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
One in a Million by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren At A Time by Michael Perry
Push by Sapphire
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Secret Life of Becky Miller by Sharon Hinck
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
A Stitch in Time by Allison Bottke
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia De Luce Mystery by Alan Bradley
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin
Without a Backward Glance by Kate Veitch
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
