Simplify your book club selection with Book Club in a Bag! These kits contain 12 to 13 copies of book-club-worthy titles, from biography to historical fiction to suspense, along with a discussion guide.
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Booking a Kit
- Access KitKeeper to view and request available titles.
- You can browse all kits, or search by month or specific kit. You can also download and print the full list of titles and their summaries (PDF; 17 pages).
- Bookings may be made up to a year in advance.
- Pick up your hold on the regular hold shelves. Your notification may come in a few days early, but it will remain available until your specified pick up date.
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Terms of Loan
- 6 week loan period.
- No renewals.
- Kit may be picked up at or returned to any branch.
- Kit must be returned at the desk during operating hours, not through an exterior drop box.
- All items are checked out to one member’s card.
- Two kits may be borrowed by a member at any time.
- The member who borrowed the kit is responsible for:
- The distribution and return of all items to his or her group members; and
- Any damages to the books/bag, or lost items. The cost of a damaged or lost book varies depending on the item.
Book Club in a Bag Kits
Want to discuss the choices with your fellow book club members? Download and print the full list of titles and their summaries! (Also available: the list of new 2022 titles and summaries)
Discussion Guides
- (New!) Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez
- The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
- Always, by Sarah Jio
- Beartown, by Fredrik Backman
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo
- Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
- Bellevue Square, by Michael Redhill
- Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke
- The Boat People, by Sharon Bala
- The Book of Two Ways, by Jodi Picoult
- Born A Crime, by Trevor Noah
- Brother, by David Chariandy
- The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
- (New!) The Cellist, by Daniel Silva
- Circe, by Madeline Miller
- The Clay Girl, by Heather Tucker
- The Clockmaker's Daughter, by Kate Morton
- The Color of Our Sky, by Amita Trasi
- (New!) Dancing in the Mosque, by Homeira Qaderi
- A Different Kind of Daughter, by Maria Toorpakai
- The Donnellys, by James Reaney
- Educated, by Tara Westover
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
- Every Note Played, by Lisa Genova
- Faithful, by Alice Hoffman
- (New!) Five Little Indians, by Michelle Good
- The Flight Attendant, by Chris Bohjalian
- Forgiveness, by Mark Sakamoto
- (New!) The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah
- The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez
- A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
- The Gown, by Jennifer Robson
- The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah
- Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
- The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
- Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh
- Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker
- The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel
- Hum If You Don't Know the Words, by Bianca Marais
- The Huntress, by Kate Quinn
- Indians on Vacation, by Thomas King
- The Illegal, by Lawrence Hill
- The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin
- Inheritance, by Dani Shapiro
- The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See
- (New!) The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner
- Lady in the Lake, by Laura Lippman
- The Lake House, by Kate Morton
- (New!) The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave
- The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
- Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
- (New!) The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner
- The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, by Cecily Ross
- Lost Roses, by Martha Hall Kelly
- Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain
- The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, by Mitch Albom
- A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
- Marriage of a Thousand Lies, by S.J. Sindu
- The Massey Murder, by Charlotte Gray
- (New!) The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig
- The Mountain Between Us, by Charles Martin
- My Sister Rosa, by Justine Larbalestier
- The Never-Ending Present, by Michael Barclay
- The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
- Normal People, by Sally Rooney
- Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
- Once Upon a River, by Diane Setterfield
- One Perfect Lie, by Lisa Scottoline
- Only Child, by Rhiannon Navin
- The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
- The Orphan's Tale, by Pam Jenoff
- (New!) Our Darkest Night, by Jennifer Robson
- The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue
- (New!) The Push, by Ashley Audrain
- The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
- Run Away, by Harlan Coben
- Seven Fallen Feathers, by Tanya Talaga
- Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult
- Somewhere in France, by Jennifer Robson
- Son of a Trickster, by Eden Robinson
- Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix
- The Space Barons, by Christian Davenport
- A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult
- The Stars are Fire, by Anita Shreve
- (New!) State of Terror, by Louise Penny, Hillary Clinton
- Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
- Still Life, by Louise Penny
- Stranger, by David Bergen
- Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember, by Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
- The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
- This Accident of Being Lost, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- (New!) Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
- Two by Two, by Nicholas Sparks
- (New!) The Vanishing Half, by Britt Bennett
- Vinyl Café Turns the Page, by Stuart McLean
- Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje
- Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan
- Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
- Where the Light Falls, by Allison Pataki, Owen Pataki
- The Widow, by Fiona Barton
- The Witches of New York, by Ami McKay
- The Woman in Cabin 10, by Ruth Ware
- The Wonder, by Emma Donoghue
- The Woo Woo, by Lindsay Wong