Books by the Stack

Build your own book club kit
Check out as few or as many copies of the book as you need. Each book checks out separately and can be returned separately to any GRPL location. Books by the Stack books are checked out for 6 weeks (one 3-week renewal is available). Plenty of time to read, meet, and discuss! Discussion questions for each book can be downloaded below. Or ask for a copy of the questions at the Information Desk on Level 1 of the Main Library. Is your stack too tall to carry home? Check out a handy tote bag! Ask for the bag at the Information Desk as well.
Also available:
Books by the Stack for Teens
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Books by the Stack at the Branches
Call 616.988.5400 to place a hold on available copies
Give us a call at the Main Library and we’ll be happy to get your stack together and on hold for you. We can send it to the branch of your choice or you can come pick it up at the Main Library.
Fiction
Call Me By Your Name
by Andre Aciman
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
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Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
The Power
by Naomi Alderman
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The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
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Mostly Dead Things
by Kristen Arnett
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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Pretend I'm Dead
by Jen Beagin
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The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
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The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
November Road
by Lou Berney
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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Sensible Shoes
by Sharon Garlough Brown
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler
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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
by Joanna Cannon
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Your House Will Pay
by Steph Cha
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
by Cho Nam-Joo
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
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Blacktop Wasteland
by S. A. Cosby
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
by Elle Cosimano
Chasing Francis
by Ian Morgan Cron
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
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The Office of Historical Corrections
by Danielle Evans
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
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Lawn Boy
by Jonathan Evison
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So Big
by Edna Ferber
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My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
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The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy
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The Jane Austen Project
by Kathleen Flynn
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This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
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Varina
by Charles Frazier
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Americans Gods
by Neil Gaiman
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
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Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
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She Rides Shotgun
by Jordan Harper
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
by Alix E. Harrow
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
Beach Read
by Emily Henry
Dune
by Frank Herbert
The House of Silk
by Anthony Horowitz
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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A Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
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The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
Death Is Hard Work
by Khaled Khalifa
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
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The Dinner
by Herman Koch
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The Poppy War
by R. F. Kuang
The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner
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Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
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Good Neighbors
by Sarah Langan
The Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren
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Call for the Dead
by John Le Carre
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
by Ursula K. Le Guin
No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
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Severance
by Ling Ma
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
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Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
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A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
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Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
Red, White & Royal Blue
by Casey McQuiston
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The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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Ghost Wall
by Sarah Moss
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Darktown
by Thomas Mullen
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Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata
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The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Outlawed
by Anna North
The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
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Hamnet
by Maggie O’Farrell
Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
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The Flatshare
by Beth O’Leary
There There
by Tommy Orange
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The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
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Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter
The Overstory
by Richard Powers

Black Bottom Saints
by Alice Randall
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
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Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
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Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Sourdough
by Robin Sloan
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The Light Between Oceans
by Stedman, M. L.
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Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
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Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
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Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
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The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
by Dawnie Walton
In a Dark, Dark Wood
by Ruth Ware
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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Tell the Machine Goodnight
by Katie Williams
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Nothing To See Here
by Kevin Wilson
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Non Fiction
Red Famine
by Anne Applebaum
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood
by Beth Allison Barr
Felon: Poems
by Reginald Dwyane Betts
Humankind
by Rutger Bregman
Red Notice
by Bill Browder
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The Best We Could Do
by Thi Bui
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Small Giants
by Bo Burlingham
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Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou
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All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung
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Look Alive Out There
by Sloane Crosley
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The World According to Fannie Davis
by Bridgett M. Davis
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Death in the Air
by Kate Winkler Dawson
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
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Jesus and John Wayne
by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Never Caught
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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Somebody's Daughter
by Ashley C. Ford
COMING SOON
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
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Eager
by Ben Goldfarb
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
by Tristan Gooley
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The Only Plane in the Sky
by Garrett M. Graff
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
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The Righteous Mind
by Jonathan Haidt
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What the Eyes Don't See
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
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Beowulf
by Maria Dahvana Headley
Blackout
by Sarah Hepola
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Strangers in Their Own Land
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Minor Feelings
by Cathy Park Hong
All About Love
by bell hooks
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Survival Math
by Mitchell Jackson
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Work Won't Love You Back
by Sarah Jaffe
The Story of More
by Hope Jahren
The Feather Thief
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
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When We Rise
by Cleve Jones
COMING SOON
The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
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The Sun and Her Flowers
by Rupi Kaur
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Hood Feminism
by Mikki Kendall
Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendi
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Good Neighbor
by Maxwell King
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Hidden Valley Road
by Robert Kolker
Belonging
by Nora Krug
The Lonely City
by Olivia Laing
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Member of the Family
by Dianne Lake
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Maid
by Stephanie Land
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Furiously Happy
by Jenny Lawson
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Heavy
by Kiese Laymon
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The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
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Priestdaddy
by Patricia Lockwood
Tell Me How It Ends
by Valeria Luiselli
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Underland
by Robert MacFarlane
In the Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado
The Sum of Us
by Heather McGhee
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
by Michelle McNamara
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The Soul of an Octopus
by Sy Montgomery
The Radium Girls
by Kate Moore
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Burnout
by Emily Nagoski
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell
My Father, the Pornographer
by Chris Offutt
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
by Jessica Pan
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The State of Affairs
by Esther Perel
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To Sell is Human
by Daniel Pink
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How to Change Your Mind
by Michael Pollan
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No One Cares About Crazy People
by Ron Powers
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
by Douglas Preston
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Burn the Place
by Iliana Regan
The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
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The Man They Wanted Me to Be
by Jared Sexton
Inheritance
by Dani Shapiro
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Entangled Life
by Merlin Sheldrake
Intimations
by Zadie Smith
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Big Friendship
by Aminatou Sow
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
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The Book of Eels
by Patrik Svensson
The Black Hand
by Stephan Talty
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Trick Mirror
by Jia Tolentino
Rez Life
by David Treuer
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The Blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B. Tyson
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The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel van der Kolk
The Warmth of Other Suns
by Isabel Wilkerson
The Very Worst Missionary
by Jamie Wright
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