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Book Club Sets Book Club Sets Fiction TitleHeading Author NEW! 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 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews NEW! All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr American Dervish Ayad Akhtar The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Mordecai Richler Atonement Ian McEwan NEW! Be Frank With Me Julia Claiborne Johnson Bear Marian Engel The Beauty of Humanity Movement Camilla Gibb The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis The Betrayers David Bezmozgis The Birth House Ami McKay The Bishop's Man Linden MacIntyre Blackbird House Alice Hoffman The Book of Negroes Lawrence Hill NEW! Britt-Marie Was Here Fredrick Backman Brooklyn Colm Tóibín Bury Your Dead Louise Penny NEW! Calling Me Home Julie Kibler The Casual Vacancy J. K. Rowling The Cat's Table Michael Ondaatje Carol Shields and Blanche A Celibate Season Howard The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway China Dolls Lisa See City of Thieves David Benioff NEW! Close to Hugh Marina Endicott Cockroach Rawi Hage A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews Coventry Helen Humphreys The Creator's Map Emilio Calderón The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon De Niro's Game Rawi Hage Delicious Ruth Reichl NEW! Did You Ever Have a Family Bill Clegg Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Title Author NEW! Dietland Digging to America Sarai Walker Divisadero Anne Tyler Doctor Bloom's Story Michael Ondaatje Elizabeth Costello Muriel Barbery Everything I Never Told You J.M. Coetzee Factory Voice Celest Ng NEW! Fifteen Dogs Jeanette Lynes Five Days Left Andre Alexis Fugitive Pieces Julie Lawson Timmer NEW! The Gap of Time Anne Michaels Gilead Jeanette Winterson Girl Runner Marilynne Robinson NEW! The Girl Who Wrote in Silk Carrie Snyder Girl With A Pearl Earring Kelli Estes Glow Tracy Chevalier Gone Girl Jessica Maria Tuccelli The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Gillian Flynn Half-Blood Blues Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows The Handmaid's Tale Esi Edugyan NEW! The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Margaret Atwood The Hours Jamie Ford In the Shadow of the Banyan Michael Cunningham The Interestings Vaddey Ratner The Invention of Wings Meg Wolitzer The Jane Austen Book Club Sue Monk Kidd NEW! The Japanese Lover Karen Joy Fowler The Kite Runner Isabel Allende Lady Oracle Khaled Hosseini The Language of Flowers Margaret Atwood Left Neglected Vanessa Diffenbaugh Life of Pi Lisa Genova Little Bee Yann Martel Lives of the Saints Chris Cleave Lord Jim Nino Ricci The Lost Highway Joseph Conrad Love in the Time of Cholera David Adams Richards The Lovely Bones Gabriel García Márquez Loving Frank Alice Sebold Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Nancy Horan Maya's Notebook Helen Simonson The Mayor of Casterbridge Isabel Allende NEW! Me Before You Thomas Hardy The Memory Keeper's Daughter Kim Edwards Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Title Author Midnight at the Dragon Café Judy Fong Bates 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 NEW! The Mountain Story Lori Lansens The Museum of Extraordinary Things Alice Hoffman NEW! My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri NEW! The Natural Way of Things Charlotte Wood The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern On Such a Full Sea Chang-Rae Lee The Orenda Joseph Boyden Orphan Train Christina B. Kline Our Daily Bread Lauren B. Davis Our Endless Numbered Days Claire Fuller NEW! Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson The Pact Jodi Picoult The Paris Wife Paula McLain The Power of One Bryce Courtenay Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Push Sapphire Ragged Company Richard Wagamese Ready Player One Ernest Cline The Red Queen: A Transcultural Tragicomedy Margaret Drabble Requiem Frances Itani Room Emma Donoghue The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion The Sea Captain's Wife Beth Powning NEW! The Secret Daughter Shilpi Somaya Gowda Secrets of the Sea Nicholas Shakespeare The Shack William P. Young The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt Slumdog Millionaire Vikas Swarup Smoke Elizabeth Ruth 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 NEW! A Sudden Light Garth Stein Swamplandia! Karen Russell Sweetland Michael Crummey Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Title Author A Tale for the Time Being Ruth Ozeki The Talk-Funny Girl Roland Merullo Things I Want My Daughters to Know Elizabeth Noble The Thirteenth Tale Diane Setterfield A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Three Junes Julia Glass To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee The Tree Bride Bharati Mukherjee The Unit Ninni Holmqvist Us Conductors Sean Michaels The View From Castle Rock Alice Munro Water for Elephants Sara Gruen When She Woke Hillary Jordan Where the Air is Sweet Tasneem Jamal Where'd You Go, Bernadette Maria Semple The White Tiger Aravind Adiga Non-Fiction Title Author The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating Alisa Smith & J.B. 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 NEW! A House in the Sky Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett 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 NEW! The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess and One Extraordinary Girl's Rise From and African Slum Tim Crothers Night Elie Wiesel Running With Scissors Augusten Burroughs Seabiscuit: An American Legend Laura Hillenbrand NEW! This Is Not My Life Diane Schoemperlan Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin Tiger: A True Story of Vengenance 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 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie Across the Universe Beth Revis The Adoration of Jenna Fox Mary E. Pearson As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth Lynne Rae Perkins Beastly Alex Finn Before I Fall Lauren Oliver Between Shades of Gray Ruta Sepetys Blink & Caution Tim Wynne-Jones Blood Red Road Moira Young The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: A Fable John Boyne City of Bones Cassandra Clare The Comet's Curse: A Galahad Book Dom Testa Daughter of Smoke & Bone Laini Taylor Divergent Veronica Roth Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevin Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Every Day David Levithan Graceling Kristin Cashore Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers Half Brother Kenneth Oppel The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins I Am J Chris Beam I Am The Messenger Markus Zusak If I Stay Gayle Forman Impossible Nancy Werlin Incarceron Catherine Fisher Inexcusable Chris Lynch The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness Liar and Spy Rebecca Stead Legend Marie Lu Little Brother Cory Doctorow 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 Book Club Sets @ Kitchener Public Library Title Author Ship Breaker Paolo Bacigalupi Shiver Maggie Stiefvater Speechless Hannah Harrington Split Swati Avasthi Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Asher Three Little Words: A Memoir (Non-Fiction) Ashley Rhodes-Courter The Truth About Forever Sarah Dessen Uglies Scott Westerfeld Will Grayson, Will Grayson John Green & David Levithan 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 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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