Did you know that you don't have to track down copies of a book for all of your book club's members? Lakewood Public Library owns multiple copies of numerous fiction and non-fiction titles (including audio versions for many) and can provide a Reading Group Guide with discussion questions and topics to fuel your conversations!
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Fiction Titles
Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)
All this heavenly glory : stories (by Elizabeth Crane)
And then there were none (Agatha Christie)
Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Birth Of Venus (Sarah Dunant)
Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
Clans of the Alphane moon (Philip K. Dick)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
Crescent (Diane Abu-Jaber)
Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time (Mark Haddon)
Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Devil Wears Prada (Lauren Weisberger)
Double Bind (Chris Bohjalian)
Eat Cake (Jeanne Ray)
Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter)
Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley)
The Gathering (Anne Enright)
The good earth (Pearl S. Buck)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The handmaid's tale (Margaret Atwood)
The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jump and other stories (Nadine Gordimer)
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse (Louise Erdrich)
A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest J. Gaines)
Liberty : a Lake Wobegon novel(Garrison Keillor)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Lord of the flies (Golding, William)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Loving Frank (Nancy Horan)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
The mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)
Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
Mermaid Chair (Sue Monk Kidd)
Midwives, (Chris Bohjalian)
Misgivings (Calsin, Robert)
Murder in the Marais, (Cara Black)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Nineteen Minutes: A Novel (Jodi Picoult)
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
One hundred years of solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)
People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)
Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
Pride and prejudice (by Jane Austen)
The road (Cormac McCarthy)
Secrets of a Fire King: stories (Kim Edwards)
Sex Wars (Marge Piercy)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
The stranger (Albert Camus)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Thirteen Moons (Charles Frazier)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Thread of Grace (Mary Doria Russell)
Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Tomorrow They Will Kiss (Eduardo Santiago)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
Water for elephants (Sara Gruen)
What was Lost (Catherine O'Flynn)
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
World Without End (Ken Follett)
Non-Fiction Titles
1776 (David McCullough)
Blink : the power of thinking without thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)
Death of a salesman (Arthur Miller)
Dewey : a small-town library cat who touched the world (Vicki Myron)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Elizabeth Gilbert)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
The Innocent Man (John Grisham)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
Manhunt (James Swanson)
A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose (Eckhart Tolle)
The Odyssey (Homer)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Slouching towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
A walk across America (Peter Jenkins)
The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century (Thomas L. Friedman)