Did you know you don't have to track down multiple copies of a book for your next book club meeting? Lakewood Public Library has Book Club Kits on hand for many fiction and non-fiction titles. Each kit includes multiple copies of each title (audio versions are often also available) and a Discussion Guide with discussion topics pertaining to the book.
Place any kit on hold in just two easy steps:
Peruse available kits below (click a title to view catalog information)
Contact us using the form on the right to reserve the kit(s) of your choice
Fiction Titles
The Accidental (Ali Smith)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coehlo)
Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood)
The Almost Moon (Alice Sebold)
Angle of Respose (Wallace Stegner)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
The Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
Birth Of Venus (Sarah Dunant)
Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
Crescent (Diane Abu-Jaber)
Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time (Mark Haddon)
Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Digging to America (Anne Tyler)
The Dive From Clausen’s Pier (Ann Packer)
Double Bind (Chris Bohjalian)
Eat Cake (Jeanne Ray)
Education of Little Tree (Forrest Carter)
Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
For One More Day (Mitch Albom)
The Gathering (Anne Enright)
The Good Earth (Pearl Buck)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Anne Shaffer)
Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The History of Love (Nicole Krauss)
The Hours (Michael Cunningham)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Ines of My Soul (Isabel Allende)
Jane Austen Book Club (Karen Joy Fowler)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jump and other stories (Nadine Gordimer)
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
Lamb: the gospel according to Biff (Christopher Moore)
A Lesson Before Dying (Ernest J. Gaines)
The last lecture (Randy Pausch)
Liberty : a Lake Wobegon novel(Garrison Keillor)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Lisey's Story: A Novel (Stephen King)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Loving Frank (Nancy Horan)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Kim Edwards)
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Midwives, (Chris Bohjalian)
The Namesake (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Nineteen Minutes: A Novel (Jodi Picoult)
The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency (Alexander McCall Smith)
Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)
People of the Book (Geraldine Brooks)
Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
Restless: A Novel, (William Boyd)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
Secrets of a Fire King: stories (Kim Edwards)
Sex Wars (Marge Piercy)
She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)
Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
Sweet Land (Will Weaver)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
Thirteen Moons (Charles Frazier)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
Thread of Grace (Mary Doria Russell)
Time Traveler’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Tortilla Curtain (Coraghessan Boyle)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
Twilight (Stephanie Meyer)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
What is the What: the Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng (Dave Eggers)
What was Lost (Catherine O'Flynn)
The Whistling Season (Ivan Doig)
Wicked (Gregory Maguire)
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
Winter Solstice (Rosamunde Pilcher)
World Without End (Ken Follett)
Non-Fiction Titles
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Elizabeth Gilbert)
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic (Valerian Ivanovich Al’banov)
Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
Manhunt (James Swanson)
Mayflower: A Story of Courage (Nathaniel Philbrick)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson)
Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (Anne Lamott)
Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
The Zookeepers's Wife (Diane Ackerman)
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