Book Discussion Kits

Book Discussion Kits - Short List by Title

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Kits by Genre or Age: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Memoir/Autobiography | Mystery | Nonfiction |Grades 4-5 | Grades 6-9

Titles: A-E | F-L | M-Q | R-Z

• 1776 by David McCullough.
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year in Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver.
• The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein.
• Atonement by Ian McEwan.
• Away by Amy Bloom.
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dal Sijie.
• The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg.
• Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson.
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.
• Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos
• Black Out by John Lawton.
• Blessings by Anna Quindlen.
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
• Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell.
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad.
• Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo.
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
• Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos.
• Caucasia by Danzy Senna.
• The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty.
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult.
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris.
• A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr.
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns.
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond.
• The Color of Water by James McBride.
• Confessions of a Memory Eater by Pagan Kennedy.
• Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber.
• Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez.
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner.
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon.
• Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig.
• Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende.
• Desert Queen: the Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Advisor to Kings… by Janet Wallach.
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.
• Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron.
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler.
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer.
• The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian.
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris.
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
• Educating Esme by Esme Codell.
• Eventide by Kent Haruf.
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
• For One More Day by Mitch Albom.
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg.
• Funny in Farsi: a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas.
• The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea, the Forgotten War of the South Pacific by James Campbell.
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
• The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo.
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier.
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls.
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
• Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult.
• Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas.
• Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as a Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford.
• Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg.
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julian Alvarez.
• I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron.
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan.
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
• Isaac's Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson.
• The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler.
• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain.
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
• The Known World by Edward Jones.
• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry.
• Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan.
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
• The Lottery by Patricia Wood.
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
• Love Walked In by Marisa De los Santos.
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.
• The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison.
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
• Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence by John Hockenberry.
• My Antonia by Willa Cather.
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri.
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle.
• Nickel and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult.
• The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan.
• On Beauty by Zadie Smith.
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• Open House by Elizabeth Berg.
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.
• The People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
• Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi.
• Personal History by Katharine Graham.
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf.
• Please Don't Come Back from the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos.
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.
• Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry.
• Postville by Stephen Bloom.
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.
• The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester.
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi.
• Regeneration by Pat Barker.
• A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick.
• Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen.
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
• Run by Ann Patchett.
• Saturday by Ian McEwan.
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand.
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
• The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards.
• The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller.
• A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie.
• The Silenced by James DeVita.
• Sister of My Heart by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni.
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk.
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
• The Soloist by Mark Salzman.
• The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez.
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman.
• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon.
• Still Life by Louise Penny.
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski.
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
• T Is for Trespass by Sue Grafton.
• The Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith.
• Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl.
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult.
• Testimony by Anita Shreve.
• They Marched Into Sunlight by David Maraniss.
• Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier.
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield.
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations-- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson.
• Three Junes by Julia Glass.
• The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
• The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke.
• Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry.
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom.
• The Turk and My Mother by Mary Helen Stefaniak.
• Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.
• Unless by Carol Shields.
• Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult.
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard.
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalacian Trail by Bill Bryson.
• The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam.
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
• Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian.
• Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik.
• When Madeline Was Young by Jane Hamilton.
• When We Get There by Shauna Seliy.
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang.
• Winter Study by Nevada Barr.
• The Women by T.C. Boyle.
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama.
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman.
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris.
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.
• The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman.