Book Discussion Kits

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• 1776 by David McCullough.
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.
• Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver.
• 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.
• Blessings by Anna Quindlen.
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
• Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell.
• Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson.
• Bombingham by Anthony Grooms.
• The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstand.
• Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding.
• Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos.
• Caucasia by Danzy Senna.
• The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty.
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris.
• City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin.
• A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr.
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
• Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
• 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.
• 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.
• Digging to America by Anne Tyler.
• The Dive from Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer.
• Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst.
• The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian.
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris.
• Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes.
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.
• Educating Esme by Esme Codell.
• The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter.
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo.
• Eventide by Kent Haruf.
• Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser.
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.
• For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire by James Yee.
• 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.
• Galileo's Daugther: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love by Dava Sobel.
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland.
• Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier.
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls.
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
• GraceLand by Chris Abani.
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
• How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julian Alvarez.
• I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron.
• Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Jerri Nielsen, M.D..
• In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson.
• In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien.
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai.
• The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert.
• The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
• Into the Forest by Jean Hegland.
• 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.
• Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan.
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
• Light on Snow by Anita Shreve.
• Little Children by Tom Perrotta.
• The Lottery by Patricia Wood.
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
• Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Chessman.
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
• Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.
• The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd.
• 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.
• 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.
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan.
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• Open House by Elizabeth Berg.
• Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
• Persepolis 2: the Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi.
• Personal History by Katharine Graham.
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve.
• Plainsong by Kent Haruf.
• The Plot Against America by Philip Roth.
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
• Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry.
• Postville by Stephen Bloom.
• Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.
• Prisoner's Base by Rex Stout.
• 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.
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.
• Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen.
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
• Saturday by Ian McEwan.
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan.
• 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.
• A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie.
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
• Sister of My Heart by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni.
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.
• The Soloist by Mark Salzman.
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.
• 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.
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.
• Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
• The Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith.
• Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl.
• The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer.
• The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult.
• 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.
• Torch by Cheryl Strayed.
• 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.
• Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult.
• Waiting by Ha Jin.
• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalacian Trail by Bill Bryson.
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.
• Welcome to the Great Mysterious by Lorna Landvik.
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka.
• While I Was Gone by Sue Miller.
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang.
• Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama.
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion.
• A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris.