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Popular Books for Discussion

The Library is often asked to suggest books for discussion groups. The following list are some of our favorites. Please don't hesitate to ask us at the Reference Desk for further suggestions.

Contemporary Fiction

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Strange As This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society** by Mary Ann Shaffer
American Wife** by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Shack by William P. Young

Classics

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My Antonia by Willa Cather
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Domestic Fiction

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
March by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Oxygen by Andrew Miller

Fantasy

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Farm Life

Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan

Foreign Countries

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
World without End by Ken Follett
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Space Between Us by Thrity N. Umrigar

Historical Fiction

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
March by Geraldine Brooks
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The March by E. L. Doctorow
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
World without End by Ken Follett
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
The Book Thief** by Markus Zusak

Immigrants

The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao** by Junot Diaz
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Medical

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Gwendolyn Brooks
World without End by Ken Follett
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Mysteries

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Women

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

Non-Fiction

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom (155.937 Alb)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (B Angelou)
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (966.4 Bea)
The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan (616.994 Cor)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (B Didion)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (B Frank)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert (910.4 Gil)
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson (364.1523 Lar)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson (371.822 Mor)
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor (B Noor)
Population - 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time** by Michael Perry (B Perry, M.)
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl (B Reichl)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (B Walls)
Night by Elie Wiesel (940.5315 Wie)