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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 Accusation Catherine Bush The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Alice & Oliver Charles Bock All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr American Dervish Ayad Akhtar NEW! An American Marriage Tayari Jones NEW! Anxious People Fredrik Backman Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein NEW! Ask Again, Yes Mary Beth Keane Atonement Ian McEwan Be Frank With Me Julia Claiborne Johnson The Beauty of Humanity Movement Camilla Gibb Before the Fall Noah Hawley Beloved Toni Morrison The Best Kind of People Zoe Whittall The Betrayers David Bezmozgis Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty NEW! The Book of Longings Sue Monk Kidd The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill The Bookshop on the Corner Jenny Colgan Calling Me Home Julie Kibler 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 Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan The Creator's Map Emilio Calderón The Curious Incident of the Dog in Mark Haddon the Night-Time De Niro’s Game Rawi Hage Did You Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg Dietland Sarai Walker Digging to America Anne Tyler Drop, The Dennis Lhane Last Update: Jan 2021 Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Audio Large Title Author Book Print Emancipation Day Wayne Grady Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng Exit West Mohsin Hamid Fifteen Dogs André Alexis The Fire by Night Teresa Messineo Five Days Left Julie Lawson Timmer Fleishman is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner From the Ashes Jesse Thistle 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 NEW! The Glass Hotel Emily St. John Mandel Glow Jessica Maria Tuccelli Gone Girl Gillian Flynn The Gown: a Novel of the Royal Wedding Jennifer Robson 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 The Home for Unwanted Girls Joanna Goodman NEW! Homegoing Yaa Gyasi NEW! How To Pronounce Knife: Stories Souvankham Thammavongsa If I Fall, If I Die Michael Christie NEW! Indians on Vacation Thomas King The Interestings Meg Wolitzer The Invention of Wings Sue Monk Kidd NEW! The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue V.E. Schwab The Japanese Lover Isabel Allende A Kiss Before Dying Ira Levin The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini Life of Pi Yann Martel Little Bee Chris Cleave Lives of the Saints Nino Ricci Lord Jim Joseph Conrad Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Audio Large Title Author Book Print The Lost Girls of Paris Pam Jenoff Louis Riel: a Comic-Strip Biography Chester Brown Love And Ruin Paula McLain Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez Loving Frank Nancy Horan March. Book One John Lewis 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 NEW! Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards Midnight at the Dragon Café Judy Fong Bates The Midnight Watch David Dyer The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness Arundhati Roy Miss You Most of All Elizabeth Bass Molly Fox's Birthday Deirdre Madden Moon of the Crusted Snow Waubgeshig Rice The Mountain Story Lori Lansens 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 Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 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 NEW! The Pull of the Stars Emma Donoghue Ragged Company Richard Wagamese Ready Player One Ernest Cline Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Audio Large Title Author Book Print Refugee Alan Gratz Requiem Frances Itani NEW! Ridgerunner Gil Adamson Room Emma Donoghue The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion The Sea Captain's Wife Beth Powning Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda The Shack William P. Young Shelter Jung Yun The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt Slumdog Millionaire Vikas Swarup Smoke Elizabeth Ruth Smoke River Krista Foss 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 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 Unit Ninni Holmqvist This Is How It Always Is Laurie Frankel Us Conductors Sean Michaels The View From Castle Rock Alice Munro The Virgin Cure Ami McKay Waking Lions Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Walkaway Cory Doctorow Washington Black Esi Edugyan The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates When She Woke Hillary Jordan Where the Air is Sweet Tasneem Jamal 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 Alan Turing: The Enigma Andrew Hodges An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth Chris Hadfield Between Gods Alison Pick Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast Educated Tara Westover Fun Home: a Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel NEW! How To Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi Hunger: A Memoir Of (My) Body Roxane Gay Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country Allan Casey Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China Paul French Maus: A Survivor’s Tale Art Spiegelman Next Stop: A Son with Autism Grows Up Glen Finland Night Elie Wiesel Persepolis Marjane Satrapi The Queen of Katwe Tim Crothers Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraw Sarah Glidden Running With Scissors Augusten Burroughs Greg Mortenson & David Three Cups of Tea Oliver Relin The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival John Vaillant Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand NEW! We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir Samra Habib 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 American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz Blink & Caution Tim Wynne-Jones The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Boy in the Black Suit Jason Reyno 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 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins I Am J Cris Beam The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness Looking For Alaska John Green Matched Ally Condie The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline The Maze Runner James Dashner Paper Towns John Green The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Revolver Marcus Sedgwick The Scorpion Rules Erin Bow Th1rteen R3asons Why Jay Asher Three Little Words: A Memoir (Non-Fiction) Ashley Rhodes-Courter The Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen 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 Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Clare West 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 Jane Goodall Terry Barber 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 Red Dog Louis de Bernieres Jennifer Bassett Shipwreck Maureen Jennings The Swiss Family Robinson Johann Wyss Madeleine du Vivier Terry Fox Terry Barber The Testament John Grisham Karen Holmes Titanic Tim Vicary Tribb's Troubles Trevor Cole .
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