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CALS BOOK CLUB KITS Updated April 2021 ❑ 22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson ❑ The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene ❑ 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson ❑ Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey ❑ The Alice Network by Kate Quinn ❑ All Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg ❑ All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr ❑ All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda ❑ All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg ❑ The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler ❑ American Eve by Paula Uruburu ❑ American Gods by Neil Gaiman ❑ Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ❑ Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver ❑ Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson ❑ The Arabian Nights ❑ The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein ❑ Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin ❑ Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler ❑ Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison ❑ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua ❑ Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter ❑ Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate ❑ Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue ❑ Being Mortal by Atul Gawande ❑ by Julian Fellowes ❑ Bel Canto by Ann Patchett ❑ Beloved by Toni Morrison ❑ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ❑ Birds of America by Lorrie Moore ❑ The Blind Side by Michael Lewis ❑ The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison ❑ The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci ❑ The Book of Bright Ideas by Sandra Kring ❑ The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly ❑ The Book Thief by Markus Zusak ❑ The Bookmaker’s Daughter by Shirley Abbott ❑ Born a Crime by Trevor Noah ❑ Bossypants by Tina Fey ❑ The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant ❑ The Boys in the Boat by Daniel J. Brown ❑ Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer ❑ Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan ❑ Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo ❑ Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler ❑ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ❑ Bringing Maggie Home by Kim Vogel Sawyer ❑ Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard ❑ Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks ❑ Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth ❑ Camp Nine by Vivienne Schiffer ❑ Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis ❑ Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton ❑ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson ❑ The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway ❑ Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein ❑ The Circle by Dave Eggers ❑ Circling the Sun by Paula McLain ❑ Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson ❑ The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau ❑ City of Thieves by ❑ Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat ❑ Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey ❑ The Color of Water by James McBride ❑ The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor ❑ The Condition by Jennifer Haigh ❑ Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole ❑ Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz ❑ The Coral Thief by Rebecca Stott ❑ Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo ❑ Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin ❑ Crossing the Line by Bibi Belford ❑ The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha ❑ Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (pen name of J.K. Rowling) ❑ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon ❑ Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese ❑ Dad is Fat by Jim Gaffigan ❑ Dark Places by Gillian Flynn ❑ Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris ❑ Dead Wake by Erik Larson ❑ The Devil in the White City: Murder, Music, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson ❑ Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt ❑ The Die Is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861 edited by Mark Christ ❑ The Dinner by Herman Koch ❑ The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball ❑ Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant ❑ Divergent by Veronica Roth ❑ The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman ❑ Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama ❑ East of the Sun by Julia Gregson ❑ Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert ❑ Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein ❑ Educated by Tara Westover ❑ Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts ❑ Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ❑ The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery ❑ Emma by Jane Austen ❑ Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gywnne ❑ Everyone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave ❑ Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng ❑ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond ❑ Exit West by Mohsin Hamid ❑ Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink ❑ Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha ❑ Flight of Dreams by Ariel Lawhon ❑ The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton ❑ Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson ❑ Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner ❑ Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep ❑ Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen ❑ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles ❑ The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin De Becker ❑ The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd ❑ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ❑ Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ❑ Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan ❑ The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls ❑ The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel ❑ Going Away Shoes by Jill McCorkle ❑ Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn ❑ Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob ❑ The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman ❑ The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah ❑ Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins ❑ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ❑ H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald ❑ Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls ❑ The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood ❑ The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin ❑ The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss ❑ Heaven is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo ❑ The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley ❑ Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger ❑ Her Mother’s Hope by Francine Rivers ❑ Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman ❑ The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent ❑ Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly ❑ Highest Duty: My Search for what Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger ❑ Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance ❑ History of Love by Nicole Krauss ❑ Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi ❑ Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford ❑ The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor ❑ The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros ❑ The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende ❑ How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D. ❑ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ❑ I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai ❑ I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron ❑ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ❑ I Was Told There’d be Cake by Sloane Crosley ❑ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot ❑ In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan ❑ In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson ❑ In the Woods by Tana French ❑ The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel J. Brown ❑ Inkheart by Cornelia Funke ❑ Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea ❑ Into the Wild by Jon Krackauer ❑ The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd ❑ Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass ❑ Just Kids by Patti Smith ❑ Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson ❑ Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann ❑ Kindred by Octavia Butler ❑ The King’s Speech by Mark Logue ❑ Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain ❑ Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom ❑ Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal ❑ The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry ❑ The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver ❑ Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash ❑ Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh ❑ The Last Girls by Lee Smith ❑ The Leavers by Lisa Ko ❑ Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones ❑ Liberating Paris by Linda Bloodworth Thomason ❑ Life After by Katie Ganshert ❑ Life of Pi by Yann Martel ❑ The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson ❑ The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens ❑ Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman ❑ Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian ❑ Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly ❑ Little Bee by Chris Cleave ❑ Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton ❑ Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng ❑ Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult ❑ The Lost City of Z by David Grann ❑ Lost in Shangri La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff ❑ The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro ❑ Loving Frank by Nancy Horan ❑ The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean ❑ The Magicians by Lev Grossman ❑ The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo ❑ Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz ❑ Magyk by Angie Sage ❑ Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan ❑ Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear ❑ Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson ❑ A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman ❑ Manhunt: The 12-Day Hunt for Lincoln’s Killers by James L. Swanson ❑ March by Geraldine Brooks ❑ March, Book One by John Lewis and Nate Powell ❑ The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides ❑ The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards ❑ Me Before You by Jojo Moyes ❑ Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ❑ The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan ❑ Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross ❑ Missoula: Rape & the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer ❑ The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Divakaruni ❑ Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields ❑ The Moonflower Vine by Jetta Carlton ❑ Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett ❑ Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder ❑ Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner ❑ Mudbound by Hillary Jordan ❑ Murder in Matera by Helene Stapinski ❑ The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce ❑ My Cat, Spit McGee by Willie Morris ❑ My Dog Skip by Willie Morris ❑ My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs ❑ My Life in France by Julia Child ❑ The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri ❑ Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ❑ The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander ❑ New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker ❑ News of the World by Paulette Jiles ❑ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ❑ The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah ❑ Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks ❑ Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult ❑ Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century by Jessica Bruder ❑ North Toward Home by Willie Morris ❑ Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly ❑ The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith ❑ An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn ❑ Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ❑ The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan ❑ On Beauty by Zadie Smith ❑ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel G. Marquez ❑ The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff ❑ Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott ❑ Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman ❑ Ordinary Grace by William K. Krueger ❑ Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline ❑ The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell ❑ The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore ❑ Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson ❑ Outer Banks by Anne Rivers Siddons ❑ Pachinko by Min Jin Lee ❑ Paper Towns by John Green ❑ The Paris Wife by Paula McLain ❑ The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender ❑ The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters ❑ Peace Like a River by Leif Enger ❑ The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall ❑ People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks ❑ Perfect Peace by Daniel Black ❑ Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ❑ The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason ❑ The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond ❑ A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ❑ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ❑ Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean P. Sasson ❑ The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan ❑ Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain ❑ Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi ❑ Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier ❑ Red Tent by Anita Diamant ❑ Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier ❑ Rise: How a House Built a Family by Cara Brookins ❑ Room by Emma Donoghue ❑ The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion ❑ The Round House by Louise Erdrich ❑ Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward ❑ Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent ❑ Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay ❑ Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman ❑ The Shack by William P. Young ❑ The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins ❑ Shanghai Girls by Lisa See ❑ A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert ❑ Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West ❑ Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick ❑ Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones ❑ The Sisters Weiss by Naomi Ragen ❑ Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga ❑ Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian ❑ Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ❑ Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult ❑ The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey ❑ Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See ❑ So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo ❑ Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill ❑ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison ❑ Sophie’s Choice by William Styron ❑ Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler ❑ A Star for Mrs. Blake by April Smith ❑ Stardust by Neil Gaiman ❑ The Stars Are Fire by Anita Shreve ❑ Still Life by Louise Penny ❑ Still Missing by Chevy Stevens ❑ The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin ❑ Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder ❑ Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert ❑ Sully: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger ❑ The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley ❑ Sugar by Bernice McFadden ❑ SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt ❑ Swamplandia! by Karen Russell ❑ Taps by Willie Morris ❑ Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl ❑ There, There by Tommy Orange ❑ The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield ❑ Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe ❑ The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien ❑ This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper ❑ A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ❑ Three Junes by Julia Glass ❑ The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht ❑ The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ❑ Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Love by Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed ❑ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ❑ To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolfe ❑ Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro ❑ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ❑ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ❑ Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman by Mary M. Hamilton ❑ Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini with Rebecca Paley ❑ True Grit by Charles Portis ❑ The Truth According to Us by Annie Barrows ❑ The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis ❑ Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup ❑ Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ❑ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand ❑ Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes ❑ The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead ❑ The Untelling by Tayari Jones ❑ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett ❑ Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Beals ❑ Watchmen by Alan Moore ❑ Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen ❑ We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver ❑ We Were Liars by E. Lockhart ❑ We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates ❑ The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton ❑ The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown ❑ What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty ❑ What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons ❑ When All Is Said by Anne Griffith ❑ Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple ❑ The Whistling by Ivan Doig ❑ Wicked by Gregory Maguire ❑ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed ❑ The Windfall by Diksha Basu ❑ Winter Study by Nevada Barr ❑ Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen ❑ Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell ❑ Wish You Well by David Baldacci ❑ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ❑ Wonder by R.J. Palacio ❑ The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan ❑ The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah ❑ A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans ❑ The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion ❑ Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Ann Fowler ❑ The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman