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Book Club Sets Book Club Sets Fiction Audio Large TitleHeading Author Book Print 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Mona Awad The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson Accusation Catherine Bush The Alchemist Paulo Coelho NEW! The Alice Network Kate Quinn Alice & Oliver Charles Bock All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr American Dervish Ayad Akhtar Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein Atonement Ian McEwan Julia Claiborne Be Frank With Me Johnson The Beauty of Humanity Movement Camilla Gibb Before the Fall Noah Hawley Beloved Toni Morrison The Best Kind of People Zoe Whittall The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis The Betrayers David Bezmozgis Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty Birdie Tracey Lindberg The Bishop's Man Linden MacIntyre The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill The Bookshop on the Corner Jenny Colgan Calling Me Home Julie Kibler The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje China Dolls Lisa See City of Thieves David Benioff Close to Hugh Marina Endicott Cockroach Rawi Hage A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews Coventry Helen Humphreys NEW! Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan The Creator's Map Emilio Calderón The Curious Incident of the Dog in Mark Haddon the Night-Time Last Update: Nov 2019 Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Audio Large Title Author Book Print Dark Matter Blake Crouch De Niro's Game Rawi Hage Delicious! Ruth Reichl Did You Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg Dietland Sarai Walker Digging to America Anne Tyler NEW! The drop Dennis Lhane Educated Tara Westover Elizabeth Costello J.M. Coetzee Emancipation Day Wayne Grady Everything I Never Told You Celest Ng NEW! Exit West Mohsin Hamid Factory Voice Jeanette Lynes Fifteen Dogs Andre Alexis The Fire by Night Teresa Messineo Five Days Left Julie Lawson Timmer Fleishman is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner Fugitive Pieces Anne Michaels The Gap of Time Jeanette Winterson Girl Runner Carrie Snyder The Girl Who Wrote in Silk Kelli Estes The Girls Emma Cline Glow Jessica Maria Tuccelli Gone Girl Gillian Flynn NEW! The Great Alone Kristin Hannah Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood His Whole Life Elizabeth Hay If I Fall, If I Die Michael Christie The Interestings Meg Wolitzer The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh Left Neglected Lisa Genova Life of Pi Yann Martel Little Bee Chris Cleave Lives of the Saints Nino Ricci Lord Jim Joseph Conrad The Lost Girls of Paris The Lost Highway David Adams Richards NEW! Love And Ruin Paula McLain Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Loving Frank Nancy Horan Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Audio Large Title Author Book Print Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson Maya's Notebook Isabel Allende The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy Me Before You JoJo Moyes A Measure of Light Beth Powning The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards Midnight at the Dragon Café Judy Fong Bates The Midnight Watch David Dyer NEW! The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy The Miseducation of Cameron Post Emily M. Danforth Miss You Most of All Elizabeth Bass Mister Pip Lloyd Jones Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden Motorcycles and Sweetgrass Drew Hayden Taylor The Mountain Story Lori Lansens The Museum of Extraordinary Things Alice Hoffman My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood Cynthia D’Aprix The Nest Sweeney The Orenda Joseph Boyden Orphan Train Christina Baker Kline Our Daily Bread Lauren B. Davis Our Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson Outline Rachel Cusk The Pact Jodi Picoult The Paris Wife Paula McLain A Piece of the World Christina Baker Kline Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark Ragged Company Richard Wagamese Ready Player One Ernest Cline Requiem Frances Itani Room Emma Donoghue The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Audio Large Title Author Book Print The Sea Captain's Wife Beth Powning The Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City Tanya Talaga The Shack William P. Young Shelter Jung Yun The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt Slumdog Millionaire Vikas Swarup Smoke Elizabeth Ruth NEW! Smoke River Krista Foss The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Still Alice Lisa Genova The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry Gabrielle Zevin Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry A Sudden Light Garth Stein Swimming Lessons Claire Fuller A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki The Talk-Funny Girl Roland Merullo The Testaments Margaret Atwood Things I Want My Daughters to Know Elizabeth Noble The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield Three Junes Julia Glass To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee The Tree Bride Bharati Mukherjee The Unit Ninni Holmqvist NEW! This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel Us Conductors Sean Michaels The View From Castle Rock Alice Munro The Virgin Cure Ami McKay NEW! Waking Lions Ayelet, Gundar-Goshen NEW! Walkaway Corey Doctorow Washington Black Esi Edugyan Water Dancer Ta-Neshisi Coates Water for Elephants Sara Gruen When She Woke Hillary Jordan Where the Air is Sweet Tasneem Jamal Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple The White Tiger Aravind Adiga The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Non-Fiction Audio Large Title Author Book Print Alisa Smith & J.B. The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating MacKinnon Alan Turing: The Enigma Andrew Hodges An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth Chris Hadfield Between Gods Alison Pick Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls Amanda Lindhout and A House in the Sky Sara Corbett NEW! Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body Roxane Gay Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country Allan Casey The Magical Stranger: A Son's Journey Into His Father's Life Stephen Rodrick Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China Paul French My Life In France Julia Child Next Stop: A Son with Autism Grows Up Glen Finland Night Elie Wiesel The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess and One Extraordinary Girl's Rise From and African Slum Tim Crothers Running With Scissors Augusten Burroughs Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand This Is Not My Life Diane Schoemperlan Greg Mortenson & David Three Cups of Tea Oliver Relin Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival John Vaillant Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Teen Fiction Title Author Audio Large Book Print Across the Universe Beth Revis The Adoration of Jenna Fox Mary E. Pearson Before I Fall Lauren Oliver Between Shades of Gray Ruta Sepetys Blink & Caution Tim Wynne-Jones The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Boy in the Striped Pajamas John Boyne Daughter of Smoke & Bone Laini Taylor Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Every Day David Levithan Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon Graceling Kristin Cashore NEW! The Hate U Give Angie Thomas The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins I Am J Cris Beam If I Stay Gayle Forman The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness Legend Marie Lu Liar and Spy Rebecca Stead Looking For Alaska John Green Matched Ally Condie The Maze Runner James Dashner Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs Paper Towns John Green The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Pure Julianna Baggott The Raven Boys Maggie Stiefvater Revolver Marcus Sedgwick The Scorpion Rules Erin Bow Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Shiver Maggie Stiefvater Th1rteen R3asons Why Jay Asher Three Little Words: A Memoir (Non-Fiction) Ashley Rhodes-Courter The Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen Will Grayson, Will Grayson John Green & David Levithan Wonder R.J. Palacio Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Literacy High Interest, Low Vocabulary Books Title Author Retold By Amazon Rainforest Bernard Smith D'Arcy and Evadne Adrian- Amistad Joyce Annette Barnes Vallance Billy Elliot Melvin Burgess Karen Holmes The Bourne Supremacy Robert Ludlum David Maule Brave New World Aldoux Huxley H. A. Cartledge The Brethren John Grisham Nancy Taylor The Day the Rebels Came to Town Robert Hough Hangman Louise Penny Home Invasion Joy Fielding In From the Cold Deborah Ellis The Kalahari Typing School for Men Alexander McCall-Smith Annette Keen King Solomon's Mines Sir H. Rider Haggard David Maule Listen! Frances Itani Little Women Louisa May Alcott John Escott Love You To Death Elizabeth Ruth New Year's Eve Marina Endicott The Picture of Nobody Rabindranath Maharaj Picture This Anthony Hyde Shipwreck Maureen Jennings The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss Madeleine du Vivier The Testament John Grisham Karen Holmes Tribb's Troubles Trevor Cole .
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