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
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
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
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 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
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
October Sky by Homer H. Hickham
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
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Secret Life of Becky Miller by Sharon Hinck
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen
A Stitch in Time by Allison Bottke
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
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
