Book Club Kits

Picture of a cat standing on a pile of booksBook Club Kits

Are you in a book discussion group and have trouble with everyone in your group gaining access to the chosen book? Check with the library about reserving a book discussion kit.

The Rock Island Public Library now has kits for the following titles:

  • The Accidental Tourist  by Anne Tyler (Call No. KIT FIC TYLER)
  • Acqua Alta by Donna Leon (Call No. KIT M LEON)
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  (Call No. KIT  FIC  TWAIN)
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton  (Call No. KIT  FIC  WHARTON)
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner  (Call No. KIT  FIC  FAULKNER)
  • At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SPARKS)
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan  (Call No. KIT  FIC  MCEWAN)
  • Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min  (Call No.  KIT  FIC  MIN)
  • Bel Canto by Ann Patchett  (Call No. KIT FIC PAT)
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  (Call No. KIT  FIC  PLATH)
  • Beneath a Marble Sky: A Love Story by John Shors  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SHORS)
  • The book of bright ideas by Sandra Kring  (Call No. KIT FIC KRING)
  • The Bright Forever by Lee Martin  (Call No. KIT  FIC  MARTIN)
  • Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat  (Call No. KIT  B  DANTICAT)
  • Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber  (Call No. KIT  FIC  ABE)
  • A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Call No. KIT 839.8226 IBS)
  • Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller  (Call No. KIT  B  FULLER)
  • Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway  (Call No. KIT  FIC  HEM)
  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson  (Call No. KIT  FIC  ROB)
  • The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson  (Call No. KIT FIC LARSSON)
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson  (Call No. KIT FIC LARSSON)
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier  (Call No. KIT  FIC  CHE)
  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  (Call No. KIT  FIC  WALLS)
  • The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck  (Call No. KIT  FIC  BUCK)
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  (Call No. KIT  FIC  STEINBECK)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerals  (Call No. KIT  FIC  FIT)
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
    (Call No.  KIT FIC SHAFFER)
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood  (Call No.  KIT  FIC  ATW)
  • The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall  (Call No. KIT  M  PARSHALL)
  • The Help by Kathryn Stockett   (Call No. KIT  FIC  STOCKETT)
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte  (Call No. KIT  FIC  BRONTE)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee  (Call No. KIT  FIC  LEE)
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  (Call No. KIT  FIC  HOS)
  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah  (Call No. KIT B BEAH)
  • Loving Frank  by Nancy Horan (Call No. KIT FIC HORAN)
  • March: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks  (Call No. KIT  FIC  BRO)
  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kin Edwards  (Call No. KIT  FIC  EDW)
  • Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles Shields  (Call No. KIT 813.54 MOC)
  • Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past by Fern Schumer Chapman
        (Call No. kit  b  chapman)
  • My Sister's Keeper  by Jodi Picoult (Call No. KIT FIC PICOULT)
  • Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult  (Call No. KIT  FIC  PICOULT)
  • One corpse too many by Ellis Peters  (Call No. KIT M PETERS)
  • The Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty  (Call No. KIT  FIC  WELTY)
  • Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America by Stephen G. Bloom  (Call No.  KIT  977.733 Blo)
  • Pumpkin Soup and Shrapnel by Gunda Davis  (Call No. KIT  B  DAV)
  • Rabbit, Run by John Updike  (Call No. KIT FIC UPDIKE)
  • The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Call No. KIT FIC SCHLINK)
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi  (Call No. KIT  FIC  NAF)
  • The Shack by William Young  (Call No. KIT  FIC  YOUNG)
  • The Soloist: A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez
    (Call No. KIT B AYERS)
  • The Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb  (Call No. KIT  FIC  MCCRUMB)
  • Suite Francaise: A Novel by Irene Nemirovsky  (Call No. KIT  FIC  NEM)
  • Teacher Man by Frank McCourt  (Call No. KIT  B  MCCOURT)
  • The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SETTERFIELD)
  • A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley  (Call No.  KIT  FIC  SMILEY)
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini  (Call No. KIT  FIC  HOSSEINI)
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (Call No. KIT M PARSHALL)
  • The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle (Call No. KIT FIC BOYLE)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  (Call No. KIT  FIC  SMI)
  • The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett  (Call No. KIT FIC BENNETT)
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen  (Call No. KIT FIC GRU)
  • The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss  (Call No. KIT FIC LISS)
  • The Women by T.C. Boyle  (Call No. KIT FIC BOYLE)

Included in the kits are multiple copies of the books along with relevant discussion guides.  The checkout period is for 6 weeks. For more information, just ask at or telephone the library’s Reference Desk (309) 732-7341.

 

| Last updated August 30, 2010

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