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Current Book Club in a Bag Titles Fiction Titles Eliza Minot, The Brambles (12) Fiona Davis, The Chelsea Girls (8)+ Mystery, Suspense & Thriller Titles Margaret Atwood, Cats’ Eye (25); Nicole Mones, The Last Chinese Chef (22) Anita Diamant, The Red Tent (10)+ Donna Andrews, No Nest for the Wicket (10) The Handmaid’s Tale (10) Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife (10)+ Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (5) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (10) Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove (14); Joyce Carol Oates, Missing Mom (10) Stephanie Dray, America’s First Daughter (7) Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason, Beartown (6) Tea Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (6) Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus (9)+ (17) The Rule of Four (8)+ Honore de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece (25) Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (11)+; (22) Jamie Ford, Stephen Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park (13) Elizabeth Berg, Open House (12)+ Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (10)+; (15) The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet (9)+ Diane Mott Davidson, Dark Tort (10) Ana Castillo, The Guardians (15) Annie Proulx, The Shipping News (10)+ Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (10)+ Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (13) Chris Cleave, Little Bee (12)+ Anna Quindlen, Blessings (10)+ Philippa Gregory, The Queen’s Fool (10)+; Nancy Fairbanks, Bon Bon Voyage (10) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One (6) Kris Radish, The Other Boleyn Girl (8)+ A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window (13) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (12)+ The Elegant Gathering of White Snows (20) Kathleen Grissom, The Kitchen House (10) Ken Follett, The Modigliani Scandal (23) Gioia Diliberto, I Am Madame X (20) Ruth Rendell, Adam & Even & Pinch Me (10) Ursula Hegi, Stones From the River (12)+ Sue Grafton, F is for Fugitive (10) Kim Edwards, The Memory Keepers Daughter (12)+ Deborah Rodriguez, A Cup of Friendship (5) Nancy Horan, Loving Frank (8) John Grisham, The Testament (10)+; F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (12)+ Aleichem Sholem, Irma Joubert, The Girl From the Train (7) The King of Torts (8)+ Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club (12)+ Tevye the Dairyman & the Railroad Stories (28) Kerri Maher, The Kennedy Debutante* (10)+ Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Neil Gaiman, American Gods (7) Anita Shreve, The Pilot’s Wife (12)+; Ian McEwan, Atonement (12)+ Dog in the Night-time (11)+ Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman (11)+ Anne Rivers Siddons, Heartbreak Hotel (17) Deborah Moggach, Tulip Fever (20) Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (12)+ Myla Goldberg, Bee Season (20) Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (10)+; Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (9)+ Joan Hess, Damsels in Distress (10) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars (10)+ The Wedding (12)+ Shona Patel, Teatime for the Firefly (9) P.D. James, The Murder Room (10) Jane Hamilton, A Map of the World (12)+ Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain (12)+ Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key (12)+; (8) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire (10)+; Megan Hart, All Fall Down (10)+ John Steinbeck, East of Eden (10) Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (12) The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (12) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (9)+ Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups (11)+; Lisa See, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan (12)+ Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill* (10)+ Digging to America (8)+; A Patchwork Planet (19) Ha Jin, Waiting (9)+ Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels (9) Alexander McCall Smith, A. (Abraham) Verghese, Cutting for Stone (9)+ The Charming Quirks of Others (10) Rachel Joyce, Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary & Potato The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (10)+ Robert James Waller, Peel Pie Society (12)+ Fern Michaels, Return to Sender (12) The Bridges of Madison County (12)+ Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair (12)+; Anita Shreve, Sea Glass (9)+ Marcia Muller, The Shape of Dread (10) The Secret Life of Bees (12)+ Jeanette Winterson, Art & Lies (26) Kathryn Stockett, The Help (8)+; (11) Donna Huston Murray, Lie Like a Rug (20) Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer (10)+ Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (23) Irving Stone, The Agony & the Ecstasy (23) Tamar Myers, Hell Hath No Curry (10) Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train (6) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (5) Susan Vreeland, Life Studies (26); The Passion of Sara Paretsky, Tunnel Vision (10) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (12)+ Artemisia (12); Girl in Hyacinth Blue (20) Iain Pears, The Bernini Bust (26) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (10)+ Historical Fiction Titles Jon Manchip White, Solo Goya (25) Laura Joh Rowland, Bedlam (10) Billie Letts, Where the Heart Is (10)+ Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice (10)+ T.H. White, The Once & Future King (25) C.J. Sansom, Dissolution (10) Yann Martel, Life of Pi (12)+ Marie Benedict, The Only Woman in the Room (8)+ Azria Yezierska, Bread Givers (20) Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise (10) Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us (10) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre (13) Emile Zola, The Masterpiece (15) Josephine Tey, Franchise Affair (10) Cormac McCarthy, The Road (12)+ Tracy Chevalier, Falling Angels (11)+ Anne White, An Affinity for Murder (25) Alice McDermott, Charming Billy (10) (23) Girl with a Pearl Earring (12)+ * History Book Festival Titles Ian McEwan, Enduring Love (20) J. California Cooper, In Search of Satisfaction (19) + Lewes Library Titles Nonfiction Titles David Sassoon, Becoming Mona Lisa (16) Jennifer Ackerman, Birds by the Shore (10)+ Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (12)+ Find Your Next Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods (10)+ Francine Prose, The Lives of the Muses (16) Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (12)+ Robert Putnam, Our Kids (10)+ Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel & Dimed (20) Marion Schreiber, The Twentieth Train (20) Book Club Book R.A. Scotti, Vanished Smile (14)` Book Club in Joseph Esposito, Dinner in Camelot* (9)+ Request your Book Club in a Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away (10) Rachel Simon, P.M Forni, The Civility Solution (8) Riding the Bus With My Sister (12)+ (13) Bag Kit at the Circulation Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks With My Brother (25) a Bag Titles George Foy, Run the Storm* (10)+ Desk or put it on hold Sally Mott Freeman, The Jersey Brothers* (8)+ Earl Swift, Chesapeake Requiem* (8)+ Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos, Christopher Tilghman, The Right-Hand Shore (10) through the online catalog The Pirate Next Door* (11)+ Robert Tsai, Practical Equality* (10)+ Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray Love (10) (13) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle (12)+ Check out the Book Club in Meryl Gordon, Bunny Mellon* (8)+ Amy Beth Werbel, Lust on Trial* (10)+ a Bag Kit until your book Mirielle Guiliano, French Women Don’t Get Fat (20) Franz Wisner, Honeymoon With My Brother (11) James Hall, Coffee with Michelangelo (25) Bertram D. Wolfe, club meets Christopher Hibbert, The House of Medici (13) The Fabulous Life of Diego River (11) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken (8)+ Share the books with Stacy Horn, Damnation Island* (10)+ Juvenile & Young Adult Titles members of your Book Club Steve Johnson, The Ghost Map (10) Bruce Cameron, Emory’s Gift (10) (YA) Ruth Kassinger, Slime* (8)+ Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (10) (YA) Read & Discuss the book Barbara Kingsolver, Emily M. Danforth, using the provided materials Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (10)+ The Miseducation of Cameron Post (10) (YA) Diane Lane, I Loved Her Enough (14) Sharon Draper, Out of My Mind (10) (J) Collect the books and return David Laskin, Children’s Blizzard (10) Laura Elliot, Suspect Red* (10) (YA) Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist (12) Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (10) (YA) them in the bag with the Andrea Mays, The Millionaire & the Bard* (12)+ C.C. Hunter, This Heart of Mine (8) (YA) materials folder James McBride, The Color of Water (6) E.L. Konigsburg, From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes (12)+ Basil E. Frankweiler (10) (J) Need suggestions? We’re Eugene Meyer, Five for Freedom* (8)+ Lois Lowry, The Giver (10) (YA) Tim Mohr, Burning Down the Haus* (10)+ Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star (10) (J) happy to help! Nicholas P. Money, The Rise of Yeast* (10)+ Nancy Osa, Cuba 15 (10) (J) Kate Moore, The Radium Girls (7) Carol Plum-Ucci, The Body of Christopher Creed (17) Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea (10) Sharon Roat, Between the Notes (10) (YA) * History Book Festival Titles Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (10) (YA) William Oldfield, Inspector Oldfield & the Black + Lewes Library Titles Hand Society* (8)+ Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer (10) (J) .
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