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 :

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A Palestine Affair by Jonathon Wilson An Inconvenient Wife by Chance Megan Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Landvik Lorna Brick Lane by Monica Ali City of Light by Lauren Belfer Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner Crow Lake by Mary Lawson Family History by Dani Shapiro Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje March by Geraldine Brooks Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock Middlesex by Eugenides Jeffrey My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by R.A. McCall Smith One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus Peace Like a River by Leif Enger Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Pope Joan by Donna Cross Rachel Calof's Story by Rachel Calof Rashi’s Daughter: Book One, Joheved by Maggie Anton Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant The Coffee Trader by David Liss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Larson Erik The Girls by Lori Lansens The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander The Kite Runner by Hosseini Khaled The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman The Myth of You and Me by Leah Stewart The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Ornament of The World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Menocal The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland The Photograph by Penelope Lively The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum The Reader by Bernhard Schlink The Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Three Junes by Julia Glass Waiting by Ha Jin Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

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