Tuesday, March 02, 2010

FYI- Book Club Kits

These are the titles available as book club kits at my library:

Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of Mary Dodd by Jim Fergus
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Time it Never Rained by Elmer Kelton
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee
The Color of Water by James McBride
After This by Alice McDermott
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler
The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz
Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
Brother I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Donna Dean
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

I left out about a dozen titles that either we have already done as a club, or I personally have read. If any of you have read any of these titles, leave a comment so we know that one is off limits. Isn't this a great list and a neat service for the library to provide?

3 comments:

Dara said...

Love this! Thanks, Becky!!!

Unknown said...

Thanks for posting this. It is a good list.

Lindsay said...

Love it too!