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Book Group in a Bag Kits Book Group in a Bag Kits Abraham Lincoln’s DNA and Other Bluebird, Bluebird - Attica Locke Adventures in Genetics - Philip R. Reilly The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak Indian - Sherman Alexie The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler The Bookshop on the Corner - The Accidental Wife - C.J. Fosdick Jenny Colgan Address Unknown - Katherine Kressman Taylor The Boy from Baby House 10: from the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America - Alan Philips, John Lahutsky The Alienist - Caleb Carr All the Light We Cannot See - Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi Anthony Doerr The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 An American Marriage - Tayari Jones Olympics - Daniel James Brown Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell The Bridge Ladies: a Memoir - Betsy Lerner Aten’s Last Queen - J. Lynn Else The Burgess Boys - Elizabeth Strout The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver Burial Rites - Hannah Kent Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton Being Mortal - Atul Gawande The Canterbury Sisters - Kim Wright Below Stairs - Margaret Powell The Cape Ann - Faith Sullivan Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty The Cartographer of No Man’s Land - P.S. Duffy Bleeding Kansas - Sarah Paretsky Choosing Civility: The Twenty-Five Rules of Blessings - Anna Quindlen Considerate Conduct - P.M. Forni Blossoms & Blizzards: an Anthology - The Chosen - Chaim Potok C.J. Fosdick, ed. A Christmas Blizzard - Garrison Keillor The Blue Notebook - James Levine A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman Circe - Madeline Miller The Elegance of the Hedgehog - City of Thieves - David Benioff Muriel Barbery Class Mom - Laurie Gelman Euphoria - Lily King Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City- Matthew Desmond The Color of Water: a Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from Frog Music - Emmma Donoghue America’s Unfinished Civil War - Tony Horowitz From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty Crimes Against a Book Club - Kathy Cooperman Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America - Firoozeh Dumas Crossing Carol - Jennifer L. Davidson Gender Queer: a Memoir - Maia Kobabe Crossroads: an Anthology of Resilience + Hope by Young Somali Writers - The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Marian A. Hassan, ed. Search for the Happiest Places in the World - Eric Weiner The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon Getting to Ellen: a Memoir About Love, Honesty, and Gender Change - Ellie Krug Dear Edward - Ann Napolitano Ghost Talkers - Mary Robinette Kowal Dear Life: Stories - Alice Munro Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in America - Erik Larson Mooreland, Indiana - Haven Kimmel Devil’s Knot: the True Story of the West The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Memphis Three - Mara Leveritt Kelly Barnhill Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao The Distant Hours - Kate Morton The Girls from Ames: a Story of Women and Diversity, Inc.: the Failed Promise of a Billion- Dollar Business - Pamela Newkirk a Forty Year Friendship - Jeffrey Zaslow Dracula - Bram Stoker The Giver - Lois Lowry The Dry - Jane Harper Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee Educated: a Memoir - Tara Westover The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck A Good Time for the Truth: Race in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Minnesota - Sun Yung Shin, ed. Rebecca Skloot Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash - Jean Shepherd The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck In the Shadow of the Banyan - The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah Vaddey Ratner The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Society - Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows Small Town - John Grisham Half Broke Horses: a True-Life Novel - Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë Jeanette Walls Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood Redemption - Bryan Stephenson The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Heart Berries - Terese Marie Mailhot Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - Heart in the Right Place - Carolyn Jourdan David Grann Heart of a Dove - Abbie Williams Kindred - Octavia E. Butler The Help - Kathryn Stockett The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom The Heretic’s Daughter - Kathleen Kent Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal Holes - Louis Sachar The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Home of the Brave - Katherine Applegate Lab Girl - Hope Jahren Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi Last Moon Dancing: a Memoir of Love and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Real Life in Africa - Monique Maria Schmidt Jamie Ford The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life - Doug Bock Clark How to Stop Time - Matt Haig Let’s Pretend this Never Happened: (a Mostly I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith True Memoir) - Jenny Lawson I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong - Maya Angelou James W. Loewen If You Leave this Farm, the Dream is Destroyed - Amanda Farmer The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads Houses - Paula McLain with an Indian Elder - Kent Nerburn Lilac Girls - Martha Hall Kelly Never Let Me Go - Kazou Ishiguro The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead C.S. Lewis Night - Elie Wiesel Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern Longbourn - Jo Baker 97 Orchard: an Edible History of Five Lookaway, Lookaway - Wilton Bernhardt Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement - Jane Ziegelman Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmore - No Biking in the House Without a Helmet - R.D. Blackmore Melissa Fay Greene Love in the Time of Cholera - No Horizon is So Far: Two Women and Their Gabriel Garcia Marquez Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica - Loving Frank - Nancy Horan Liv Arnesen, Ann Bancroft Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education A Man Called Ove - Fredrick Backman of Two Society Girls in the West - Marmee & Louisa: the Untold Story of Louisa Dorothy Wickenden May Alcott and Her Mother - Eve LaPlante O Pioneers! - Willa Cather The Martian - Andy Weir Odd Thomas - Dean Koontz Me Before You - Jojo Moyes Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout The Memory Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards Once Upon a River - Diane Setterfield The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in Women’s Prison - Piper Kerman History - Robert M. 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