Book Group to Go Kit

Grab a Book Group To-Go kit loaded with everything your book group needs for a memorable book discussion.

Each kit includes: Ten paperback copies of one of the titles listed below. A "Let's Talk" reading guide to help stimulate lively discussion. Reviews of the book from a variety of sources. Biographical information about the author. A copy of The Reading Group Book: The Complete Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group. This helpful guide also includes annotated lists of 250 suggested titles for provocative book discussions.

Request a Book Group To-Go Kit

Book Group To-Go kits are available for each of these titles :

Click on the cover or title for more information about the book.

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Amateur Marriage: A Novel (Large Print) by Anne Tyler

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Landvik Lorna

Astrid and Veronika by Linda Olsson

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Large Print) by Sijie Dai

Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Boy In The Striped Pajamas by Boyne, John

Brick Lane (Large Print) by Monica Ali

City of Light by Lauren Belfer

Coffee Trader by David Liss

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Da Vinci Code (Large Print) by Dan Brown

Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Larson Erik

Dogs of Babel by Parkhurst, Carolyn

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eventide (Large Print) by Kent Haruf

Family History by Dani Shapiro

Family History: A Novel (Large Print) by Dani Shapiro

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

God of Animals by Kyle, Aryn

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje

Inconvenient Wife by Chance Megan

Kabul Beauty School by Rodriguez

Kite Runner by Hosseini Khaled

Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman

Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Living History (Large Print) by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Madame Secretary (Large Print) by Madeleine Albright

March by Geraldine Brooks

Memory Keeper's Daughter by Edwards, Kim

Middlesex by Eugenides Jeffrey

Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

Photograph by Penelope Lively

Pope Joan by Donna Cross

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Reliable Wife by Robert Goodrick

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Secret Life of Bees (Large Print) by Sue Monk Kidd

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sisters Antipodes by Jane Alison

Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga

Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Soloist by Mark Salzman

Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill

Songcatcher by McCrumb, Sharyn

Spot of Bother by Haddon, Mark

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

The Song is You by Arthur Phillips

The Usual Rules (Large Print) by Joyce Maynard

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell

This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

Three Junes by Julia Glass

True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

Waiting by Ha Jin

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg

White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Fine Print

To check out a Book Group To-Go kit, groups must first register with the Library as a West Bloomfield community book group. A member of the group (who has a West Bloomfield library card) can then check out a Book Group To-Go kit for up to six weeks. Kits may be reserved up to one year in advance. A card holder is limited to checking out two kits at the same time; kits cannot be renewed.

Last Update: October 18, 2007