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OCPL is now circulating book club kits that are intended for the use of reading groups. The first set of kits was purchased with funds from the Friends of the Central Library, and was largely influenced by the 2006/2007 Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series.
LIST OF TITLES
OCPL plans to add new titles each year and welcomes suggestions from book clubs or individuals. Call 315-435-1900 or send an e-mail to reference@onlib.org with "book club kits" in the subject line. Include the title, the author and brief description.
The following titles are now available as Book Club Kits. [List is alphabetical, by Title]
Click the title to see details or place the Book Club Kit on hold.
Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were added in 2007.
Author |
Title |
Call # |
| Piper, Don | * 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life | 231.73 PIP |
| Warren, Robert Penn | All the King's Men | FIC WARREN |
| Collins, Gail | America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines | 305.409 COL |
| McCourt, Frank | * Angela's Ashes | BIO MCCOURT |
| Mailer, Norman | Armies of the Night | 818 MAI |
| Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | FIC DAI |
| Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | FIC DAI |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel Canto | FIC PATCHETT |
| Seierstad, Asne | Bookseller of Kabul | 920.995 SEI |
| McBride, James | * Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother | BIO MCBRIDE-JORDAN |
| De Bernieres, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin | FIC DE BERNIERES |
| Haddon, Mark | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime | FIC HADDON |
| Larson, Erik | Devil in the White City | 364.152 LAR |
| Packer, Ann | * Dive From Clausen's Pier | FIC PACKER |
| Fuller, Alexandra | Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight | BIO FULLER |
| Russo, Richard | * Empire Falls | FIC RUSSO |
| Ondaatje, Michael | * English Patient | FIC ONDAATJE |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | FIC FOER |
| Bradbury, Ray | * Fahrenheit 451 | FIC BRADBURY |
| Albom, Mitch | Five People You Meet in Heaven | FIC ALBOM |
| Wall, Jeannette | * Glass Castle | BIO WALL |
| Feinstein, John | Good Walk Spoiled | 796.352 FEI |
| Kostova, Elizabeth | Historian | FIC KOSTOVA |
| Krauss, Nicole | History of Love | FIC KRAUSS |
| Preston, Richard | Hot Zone | 614.57 PRE |
| Capote, Truman | * In Cold Blood | 364.152 CAP |
| Spencer-Fleming, Julia | In the Bleak Midwinter | FIC SPENCER-FLEMING |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | Interpreter of Maladies | FIC LAHIRI |
| Ellison, Ralph | Invisible Man | FIC ELLISON |
| Hosseini, Khaled | Kite Runner | FIC HOSSEINI |
| Hosseini, Khaled | Kite Runner | FIC HOSSEINI |
| Jones, Edward P. | Known World | FIC JONES |
| McKinney-Whetstone, Diane | Leaving Cecil Street | FIC MCKINNEY-WHETSTONE |
| Nabokov, Vladimir | Lolita | FIC NABOKOV |
| Erdrich, Louise | * Master Butchers Singing Club | FIC ERDRICH |
| Golden, Arthur | * Memoirs of a Geisha | FIC GOLDEN |
| Edwards, Kim | Memory Keeper's Daughter | FIC EDWARDS |
| Edwards, Kim | Memory Keeper's Daughter | FIC EDWARDS |
| Kidder, Tracy | * Mountains Beyond Mountains | BIO FARMER |
| Kidder, Tracy | * Mountains Beyond Mountains | BIO FARMER |
| Picoult, Jodi | My Sister's Keeper | FIC PICOULT |
| Mailer, Norman | Naked and the Dead | FIC MAILER |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and Dimed; On (Not) Getting by in America | 305.569 HER |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night | BIO WIESEL |
| Monfredo, Miriam Grace | North Star Conspiracy | FIC MONFREDO |
| Monfredo,Miriam Grace | North Star Conspiracy | FIC MONFREDO |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | * One Hundred Years of Solitude | FIC GARCIA MARQUEZ |
| Fergus, Jim | One Thousand White Women | FIC FERGUS |
| Haruf, Kent | Plainsong | FIC HARUF |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | * Poisonwood Bible | FIC KINGSOLVER |
| Winchester, Simon | * Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary | 423 WIN |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran | BIO NAFISI |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran | BIO NAFISI |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | Secret Life of Bees | FIC KIDD |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner | FIC ELIOT |
| See, Lisa | * Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | FIC SEE |
| Russell, Mary Doria | Sparrow | FIC RUSSELL |
| Banks, Russell | * Sweet Hereafter | FIC BANKS |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | Them | FIC OATES |
| Mortenson, Greg | * Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - One School At a Time | 371.822 MOR |
| Niffenegger, Audrey | Time Traveler's Wife | FIC NIFFENEGGER |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | FIC LEE |
| Boyle, T.C. | * Tortilla Curtain | FIC BOYLE |
| Smith, Betty | Tree Grows in Brooklyn | FIC SMITH |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden; or, Life in the Woods | 818.303 THO |
| Edgerton, Clyde | Walking Across Egypt | FIC EDGERTON |
| Oates, Joyce Carol | We Were the Mulvaneys | FIC OATES |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the Emperor Was Divine | FIC OTSUKA |
| Greenway, Alice | White Ghost Girls | FIC GREENWAY |
| Smith, Zadie | White Teeth | FIC SMITH |
| Maguire, Gregory | Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West | FIC MAGUIRE |
| Friedman, Thomas | * World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | 303.483 FRI |
| Mayle, Peter | Year in Provence | 944.92 MAY |
BOOK CLUB RESOURCES AT OCPL
The Reading Group Handbook : Everything You Need to Know to Start Your Own Book Club
by Rachel W. Jacobsohn. NY : Hyperion, 1998.
Talking About Books : A Step-by-Step Guide for Participating in a Book Discussion Group
by Marcia Fineman. Rockville, MD : Talking About Books, 1997.
The Book Club Cookbook : Recipes and Food from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors
by Judy Gelman. NY : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.
The Reader’s Choice: 200 Book Club Favorites
by Victoria Golden McMains. NY : Quill, 2000.
Read It and Eat: A Month-by-Month Guide to Scintillating Book Club Selections and Mouthwatering Menus
by Sarah Gardner. NY : Hudson Street Press, 2005.
BOOK CLUB INTERNET RESOURCES
African American Literature Book Club
This site is dedicated to books by or about African Americans and includes author profiles, book recommendations, reviews, on-line discussions, and more.
Book-Clubs-Resource.com
This comprehensive website includes information on starting a book club, on-line book clubs, where to get reading group guides, and other resources pertaining to book clubs.
READING GROUP GUIDES
Reading Group Guides
“The Online Community for Reading Groups”
This site allows you to search for a guide by title, author, genre or interest group. It also gives advice for starting a group, choosing what to read, and other useful information to enhance your book club experience.
Last updated: February 2, 2008