Everything your book group needs for a lively discussion, now available in a single box.

The Thousand Oaks Library’s Book Club in a Box program gets great literature into the hands of your book group members quickly, so time is spent reading and discussing books, rather than searching and waiting for books.

Book Club in a Box kits contain eight or more copies of a single title, discussion questions (when available), an author biography, and a group member sign-up sheet to help keep track of books.

The list of available titles includes:

• Literary classics like Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose

• Pulitzer prize winners like The Known World by Edward P. Jones, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

• Book club classics like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• Excellently reviewed, recently published “under the radar” titles you may have missed, like The lmperfectionists by Tom Rachman, Room by Emma Donoghue, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson, and others

For more information about the borrowing policy and for a complete list of the Book Club in a Box titles, ask at the Library Reference Desk, or look for information on the Library website. With 55 titles available, it’s enough to keep your club reading all year long.

Borrowing Policy

• Borrower must have a Thousand Oaks Library card.

• The box will be checked out on the library card of the person picking up the box, and that patron is responsible for the box and all of its contents.

• The loan period is eight (8) weeks and cannot be renewed.

• Holds cannot be placed online for Book Club in a Box.

To request a Book Club in a Box, contact The Reference Desk at (805) 449-2660, option 5.

This program is generously supported by the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library.

Grant R. Brimhall Library - 1401 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 • 805-449-2660 Newbury Park Library - 2331 Borchard Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320 • 805-498-2139 www.tolibrary.org Available Titles 1. Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund 29. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 30. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards 3. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner 31. The Namesake by Jumpa Lahiri 4. Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout 32. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 5. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harback* 33. News of the World by Paulette Jiles* 6. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 34. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 7. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai 35. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline 8. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate* 36. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 9. The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant 37. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger 10. Brooklyn by Colm Toibin 38. The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason 11. Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka 39. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 12. Commonwealth by Ann Patchett 40. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 13. Curious Incident of Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon 41. Rocket Men by Robert Kurson* 14. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 42. Room by Emma Donoghue 15. Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald 43. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay 16. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 44. Saturday by Ian McEwan 17. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 45. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx 18. Grandma Gatewood’s Walk by Ben Montgomery* 46. Sing, Unburied, Sing by 19. The Honey Bus by Meredith May* 47. State of Wonder by Anne Patchett 20. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford* 48. Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris 21. The Imperfectionist by Tom Rachman 49. by Julia Glass 22. Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 50. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 51. The Trust by Ronald H. Balson 24. Life of Pi by Yann Martel 52. Underground Railroad by 25. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 53. When the Emperor was Divine by Julie Otsuka 26. Maine by Courtney Sullivan 54. White Oleander by Janet Fitch 27. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson 55. Wishtree by Katherine Applegate 28. Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 56. You Know When the Men are Gone by Sioban Fallon

* “One City, One Book” selections Revised: July 2021

Grant R. Brimhall Library - 1401 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 • 805-449-2660 Newbury Park Library - 2331 Borchard Road, Newbury Park, CA 91320 • 805-498-2139 www.tolibrary.org