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TITLE AUTHOR SUBJECTS Adult Fiction Book Discussion Kits Adult Fiction Book Discussion Kits Book Discussion Kits are designed for book clubs and other groups to read and discuss the same book. The kits include multiple copies of the book and a discussion guide. Some kits include Large Print copies (noted below in the subject area). Additional Large Print, CDbooks or DVDs may be added upon request, if available. The kit is checked out to one group member who is responsible for all the materials. Book Discussion Kits can be reserved in advance by calling the Adult Services Department, 314-994-3300 ext 2030. Kits may be picked up at any SLCL location, and should be returned inside the branch during normal business hours. To check out a kit, you’ll need a valid SLCL card. Kits are checked out for up to 8 weeks, and may not be renewed. Up to two kits may be checked out at one time to an individual. Customers will not receive a phone call or email when the kit is ready for pick up, so please note the pickup date requested. To search within this list when viewing it on a computer, press the Ctrl and F keys simultaneously, then type your search term (author, title, or subject) into the search box and press Enter. Use the arrow keys next to the search box to navigate to the matches. For a full plot summary, please click on the title, which links to the library catalog. New Book Discussion Kits are in bold red font, updated 11/19. TITLE AUTHOR SUBJECTS 1984 George Orwell science fiction/dystopias/totalitarianism Accident Chris Pavone suspense/spies/assassins/publishing/manuscripts/Large Print historical/women spies/WWI/WWII/missing persons/pregnant women/Large The Alice Network Kate Quinn Print All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr historical/WWII/Europe/blind girls/fathers and daughters/Large Print Alpine for You Maddy Hunter cozy mystery/Passport to Peril series/Switzerland/humor/Large Print women's lives and relationships/life changes/married people/neighborhoods/ Alternate Side Anna Quindlen New York/Large Print African American/ domestic/ literary/ Southern/ families/ false imprisonment/ An American Marriage Tayari Jones men women relations/ Large Print historical/biographical fiction/Patsy Jefferson/fathers and America's First Daughter Stephanie Dray daughters/secrets/slavery/Large Print Among Others Jo Walton fantasy/magic/mothers and daughters/books and reading And the Mountains Echoed Khaled Hosseini historical/Afghanistan/family relationships/poverty/1952/Large Print Angels Walking Karen Kingsbury Christian fiction/Alzheimer's/nursing homes/janitors/miracles Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral Kris Radish female friendship/life changes/humor/psychological Arrowood Laura McHugh mystery/family secrets/kidnapping/Large Print Art Forger Barbara A. Shapiro mystery/art heists/Large Print Art of Racing in the Rain Garth Stein auto racing/dogs/human-animal relationships/Large Print science fiction/suspense/moon/space colonies/smuggling/conspiracies/Large Artemis Andy Weir Print Away Amy Bloom historical/immigrants/Jews/theatre Baker's Secret Stephen P. Kiernan historical/WWII/bakers/young women/resistance/Large Print recluses/women novelists/humor/Hollywood/mothers and sons/Ponzi Be Frank with Me Julia Claiborne Johnson schemes women's lives and relationships/breakups/relationships/widows/New Beach House Jane Green England/Large Print Bean Trees Barbara Kingsolver Southwest/adoption/Native Americans Beartown Fredrik Backman hockey/scandals/small town life/Large Print Before I Go to Sleep S.J. Watson thriller/memory loss/journals/movie/psychological/Large Print historical/parallel narratives/brothers and Before We Were Yours Lisa Wingate sisters/orphanages/kidnapping/Large Print Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue families/immigrants/race relations/social classes/American Dream/Large Print Bel Canto Ann Patchett love story/South America/terrorists/psychological Beneath a Scarlet Sky Mark Sullivan historical/coming of age/WWII/Italy Best of Me Nicholas Sparks small town life/North Carolina/first loves/movie/Large Print Betsey Brown Ntozake Shange historical/St. Louis/African American/Civil Rights Big Stone Gap Adriana Trigiani Virginia/mountain life/humor/single women/Large Print Blessings Anna Quindlen domestic fiction/family secrets/legacies/household employees/Large Print Bonesetter's Daughter Amy Tan mother-daughter relationships/Chinese American families/Large Print literary/apocalyptic/pandemic/near future/memories/shadows/husbands Book of M Peng Shepherd and wives/travel/ The Book That Matters Most Ann Hood book clubs/divorced women/mothers and daughters/Large Print Boston Girl Anita Diamant historical/Jewish women/feminism/Large Print Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote novel & stories/classic/coming of age/movie Britt-Marie Was Here Fredrik Backman women/friendship/neighbors/Large Print Burial Rites Hannah Kent suspense/biographical fiction/Iceland/women murderers/Large Print Catch-22 Joseph Heller satire/ WWII/ bombardiers/ classic Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger historical/1940s/coming of age/teenagers/classic Certain Justice P.D. James mystery/Britain/Adam Dalgliesh series/psychological Chaperone Liane Moriarty historical/1920s/celebrities/self-discovery/movie/ Large Print Children Act Ian McEwan legal stories/women judges/psychological/Large Print Christmas/historical/biographical fiction/Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/Large Christmas Bells Jennifer Chiaverini Print Christmas Cake Murder Joanne Fluke Christmas/cozy mystery/gentle read/bakers/women detectives/Large Print Christmas List Richard Paul Evans Christmas/life changes/inspirational/Large Print Christmas Train David Baldacci Christmas/suspense/blizzards/love historical/biographical/Beryl Markham/women air pilots/love Circling the Sun Paula McLain triangles/Kenya/Large Print City of Women David Gillham historical/WWII/Europe/Jews Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat folklore/Haiti/runaways/Large print Clubbed to Death Elaine Viets mystery/Dead-End Job series/Florida/humor Cold Sassy Tree Olive Burns historical/widowers/pre WWI Comfort Food Kate Jacobs cooking/mothers & daughters Commonwealth Ann Patchett domestic fiction/coming of age/family relationships/tragedy/1960s Asian American/ domestic/ families/ engaged couples/ Chinese Americans/ Crazy Rich Asians Kevin Kwan rich people/ social conflict/ Singapore/ Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Tom Franklin thriller/Mississippi/psychological Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese Africa/orphans/saga Dark Places Gillian Flynn thriller/psychological/satanic cults/Midwest/mass murder/movie Darker Shade of Magic Victoria Schwab fantasy/magic/quantum theory Daughters of Mars Thomas Keneally historical/WWI/nurses/family secrets/Large Print Death in Brittany Jean-Luc Bannalec mystery/France/small towns/police Defending Jacob William Landay thriller/psychological/fathers & sons Doc Mary Doria Russell historical/Old West/cowboys/mid 19th century/Doc Holliday Dovekeepers Alice Hoffman historical/Jewish life/1st century science fiction/classic/movie/coming-of-age/life on other Dune Frank Herbert planets/genetic engineering/revolutions/ East of Eden John Steinbeck family relationships/betrayal/life choices women's lives and relationships/single women/social Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman isolation/intergenerational friendship/Glasgow Scotland/Large Print Euphoria Lily King historical/anthropologists/New Guinea/love triangles Every Heart a Doorway Seanan McGuire fantasy/mystery/magical schools/boarding schools/Wayward Children series Everything I Never Told You Celeste Ng suspense/psychological/daughters/grief/Large Print literary fiction/political fiction/war stories/ refugees/ immigration/ couples/civil Exit West Moshin Hamid war/fundamentalism/Large Print Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury science fiction/book burning/censorship/political fiction/classic/satire Faithful Place Tana French mystery/Dublin Murder Squad series/Ireland/missing person/first love False Friend Myla Goldberg psychological/female friendship/secrets/missing person Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin fantasy/African American/apocalypse/dystopias/missing persons/mothers historical/biographical/Maud Baum/Judy Garland/film Finding Dorothy Elizabeth Letts industry/independence in women/Large Print Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver suspense/biologists/climate change/Appalachian Mountains/Large Print Garden Spells Sarah Addison Allen magical realism/gardens/sisters/small towns/North Carolina Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles historical/biographical/Russia/hotels/aristocracy/prisoners/Large Print Girl in Hyacinth Blue Susan Vreeland historical/Vermeer/art/artists/Large Print Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins psychological/suspense/witnesses/commuters/London/Large Print Girl Waits with Gun Amy Stewart mystery/historical/family secrets/sisters/Silk Workers Strike/Large Print Girl Who Fell from the Sky Heidi W. Durrow African American/biracial children/grandparents/1980s parallel narratives/historical/families/immigrants/Chinese Americans/Orca Girl Who Wrote in Silk Kelli Estes Islands/Seattle/Washington/Large Print Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier historical fiction/Vermeer/art/artists/Large Print God Help the Child Toni Morrison domestic fiction/African American/mothers and daughters/Large Print Good Earth Pearl S. Buck historical/family saga/women/China/classic Good Man is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor southern gothic/short stories/small town life/racism/poverty/classic Great Alone Kristin Hannah domestic fiction/historical/1970s/families/wilderness survival/Large Print literary/LGBTQ/AIDS/Brothers and
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