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Included on this page are a variety of resources to help you with book discussions. See also
Discussion Hints for
Leaders and Participants.
Reading Guides
- A Year of Reading: A Month-by-Month Guide to Classics and Crowd-Pleasers for You and Your Book Group
Elisabeth Ellington, 011.73 ELL
- The Readers’ Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites
Victoria Golden McMains, 028.1 MCM
- The Book Group Book: A Thoughtful Guide to Forming and Enjoying a Stimulating Book Discussion Group
Ellen Slezak, ed., 374.22 BOO
- The Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading
Shireen Dodson, 374.22 DOD
- The Reading Group Book: The Complete Guide to Starting and Sustaining a Reading Group, with Annotated Lists of 250 Titles for Provocative Discussion
David Laskin, 374.22 LAS
- Good Books Lately: The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups and Other Greedy Readers
Ellen Moore, READERS SERV MOO
Reference Books
- Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels
REF 809.3 NOV
- Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them
Joyce Moss, ed., REF 809.93358 LIT
Book Reviewing Periodicals
(available in the Readers Services Department)
- Bookmarks
- BookPage (free)
- Chicago Sunday Tribune Books
- ForeWord
- Mystery News
- The New York Review of Books
- New York Times Book Review
- Romantic Times Book Reviews
- TLS (Times Literary Supplement)
Premium Search Databases
From the Premium Search Database page, choose the database you want, and then enter your St. Charles Library card number, which is the barcode number on the back of the card, and your PIN number. (If you do not have a PIN number, you may use the word changeme. Do not use any spaces or dashes.) From within the Library, the databases are available at the ELR (Electronic Library Resources) computers.
General Reference Center Gold -
Access magazine and newspaper articles on authors and their works.
Literature Resource Center -
In-depth information and critical studies on authors’ lives and works
NoveList -
Fiction guide for all ages. Search to find similar authors, book reviews, book group discussion questions and author web sites.
Web Sites
Recommended Titles for Discussion
Fiction
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Death in the Family
James Agee
Brick Lane
Monica Ali
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Jayber Crow
Wendell Berry
The Ash Garden
Dennis Bock
The Buffalo Soldier
Christopher A.Bohjalian
The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Pavilion of Women
Pearl S. Buck
The Son of Laughter
Frederick Buechner
Death Comes for the Archbishop
My Antonia
The Professor’s House
Willa Cather
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
Michael Chabon
The Magic of Ordinary Days
Ann Howard Creel
The Hours
Michael Cunningham
Himalayan Dhaba
Craig Joseph Danner
Reading in the Dark
Seamus Deane
Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha
Roddy Doyle
The Siege
Helen Dunmore
The House on Moon Lake
Francesca Duranti
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Louise Erdrich
Kleopatra
Karen Essex
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
Charms for the Easy Life
Kaye Gibbons
The Seduction of Water
Carol Goodman
Baker Towers
Jennifer Haigh
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Staggerford
Jon Hassler
Hummingbird House
Patricia Henley
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Lost Garden
Helen Humphreys
Land Girls
Angela Huth
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri
Mother to Mother
Sindiwe Magona
Palace Walk
Najib Mahfuz
The Preservationist
David Maine
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Andrei Makine
Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
The Piano Tuner
Daniel Mason
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Fugitive Pieces
Anne Michaels
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
The Flanders Panel
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Empire Falls
Richard Russo
Fair and Tender Ladies
Lee Smith
Angle of Repose
Crossing to Safety
Wallace Earle Stegner
Down to a Soundless Sea
Thomas Steinbeck
The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Amy Tan
The Samurai’s Garden
Gail Tsukiyama
Winter Wheat
Mildred Walker
The Ginger Tree
Oswald Wynd
Nonfiction
The Tender Bar: A Memoir
J. R. Moehringer 070.92 MOE
The Cloister Walk
Kathleen Norris 255 NOR
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman 303. 4833 FRI
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared M. Diamond 304.28 DIA
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared M. Diamond 304.4 DIA
Bound Feet & Western Dress
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang 305.420951 CHA
Nickel and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich, 305.569 EHR
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Keith B. Richburg, 306.0967 RIC
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Thomas L. Friedman, Audio Book 337 FRI (Only)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges, 355.02 HED
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls, 362.82092 WAL
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
Melba Beals, 370.19342 BEA
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser 394 SCH
The Lost Painting
Jonathan Harr, 759.5 HAR
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
Anne Lamott, 813.54 LAM
All the Fishes Come Home to Roost: An American Misfit in India
Rachel Manija Brown, 915.4 BRO
Looking for Lovedu: Days and Nights in Africa
Ann Jones, 916 JON
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Paul Theroux, 916 THE
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson, 919.4 BRY
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
Studs Terkel, 920 TER
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Robert Kurson, 940.5451 KUR
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Iris Chang, 951.042 CHA
Eleni
Nicholas Gage, 949.5074 GAG
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang, 951.01 CHA
Iron and Silk
Mark Salzman, 951.058 SAL
The Tiger Ladies : A Memoir of Kashmir
Sudha Koul, 954.6 KOU
Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan
Ann Jones, 958.1047 JON
Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy
Robert S. McNamara, 959.7043 ARG
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Alexandra Fuller, 968.9104 FUL
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Henry Wiencek, 973.41092 WIE
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik973.7 WIN
The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
George Howe Colt, 974.492 COL
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Michael Perry, 977.544 PER
The Road from Coorain
Jill K. Conway, B CONWAY
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Haven Kimmel, B KIMMEL
West with the Night
Beryl Markham, B MARKHAM
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