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Come (virtually) together and share your love of books and reading! Dive in to great reads, and download simultaneous use titles and host your own DIY book club!
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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.
- 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.
Need a hand? Download the KitKeeper Instructions, or contact Information Services at 905-623-7322 x2712!
Terms of Loan
- 6 week loan period.
- $3.00 per day late fee.
- 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! You can also download the summaries just of the newest 2019 additions to Book Club in a Bag.
Discussion Guides
- 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
- Birdie, by Tracey Lindberg
- Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke
- The Boat People, by Sharon Bala
- Born A Crime, by Trevor Noah
- (NEW!) Brother, by David Chariandy
- (NEW!) The Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette Kowal
- (NEW!) 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
- A Different Kind of Daughter, by Maria Toorpakai
- (NEW!) The Donnellys, by James Reaney
- Educated, by Tara Westover
- (NEW!) Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
- Every Note Played, by Lisa Genova
- Faithful, by Alice Hoffman
- Fifth Business, by Robertson Davies
- Fire in the Stars, by Barbara Fradkin
- First Comes Love, by Emily Giffin
- The Flight Attendant, by Chris Bohjalian
- Forgiveness, by Mark Sakamoto
- (NEW!) The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez
- A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
- The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins
- The Girls, by Emma Cline
- (NEW!) The Gown, by Jennifer Robson
- The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah
- Half-Blood Blues, by Esi Edugyan
- The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
- (NEW!) Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh
- The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel
- A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett
- Hum If You Don't Know the Words, by Bianca Marais
- (NEW!) The Huntress, by Kate Quinn
- The Illegal, by Lawrence Hill
- (NEW!) The Immortalists, by Chloe Benjamin
- (NEW!) Inheritance, by Dani Shapiro
- (NEW!) The Island of Sea Women, by Lisa See
- (NEW!) Lady in the Lake, by Laura Lippman
- The Lake House, by Kate Morton
- (NEW!) The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
- The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman
- Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng
- Live By Night, by Dennis Lehane
- The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, by Cecily Ross
- (NEW!) Lost Roses, by Martha Hall Kelly
- Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain
- (NEW!) 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
- The Mountain Between us, by Charles Martin
- My Sister Rosa, by Justine Larbalestier
- The Nest, by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
- The Never-Ending Present, by Michael Barclay
- The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
- (NEW!) Normal People, by Sally Rooney
- (NEW!) Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
- (NEW!) Once Upon a River, by Diane Setterfield
- One Perfect Lie, by Lisa Scottoline
- Only Child, by Rhiannon Navin
- (NEW!) The Only Woman in the Room, by Marie Benedict
- The Orphan's Tale, by Pam Jenoff
- The Readymade Thief, by Augustus Rose
- The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
- (NEW!) Run Away, by Harlan Coben
- (NEW!) Seven Fallen Feathers, by Tanya Talaga
- Shark Drunk, by Morten Strøksnes
- Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult
- The Snowden Files, by Luke Harding
- Somewhere in France, by Jennifer Robson
- Son of a Trickster, by Eden Robinson
- The Space Barons, by Christian Davenport
- A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult
- The Stars are Fire, by Anita Shreve
- 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
- (NEW!) The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
- This Accident of Being Lost, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Two by Two , by Nicholas Sparks
- (NEW!) Vinyl Café Turns the Page, by Stuart McLean
- Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje
- (NEW!) Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan
- When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi
- (NEW!) 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
- (NEW!) The Woo Woo, by Lindsay Wong
- The Worrier's Guide to the End of the World, by Torre Deroche
