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Book Discussion Kits

If you belong to a book discussion group or would like to start one, you’re invited to check out our selection of book discussion kit titles. Each kit contains multiple copies of a title and a master book discussion guide. Funding for this collection was provided by the Friends of the Manitowoc Public Library.

Book Discussion Kit Policy

bulletBook discussion kits may be checked out for 6 weeks. They may not be renewed.
bulletKits must be reserved by calling 920-683-4863, ext. 307, or by emailing mplref@mcls.lib.wi.us, in advance so that the kits can be prepared for you. [If you are not a resident of Manitowoc County or Calumet County, please contact your local library to borrow the kits through Interlibrary Loan.]
bulletKits are checked out to one person. Members of the group should get their copies from that member of their group. You may not check out a single copy of a book in a kit. Teacher cards and specialized borrowers cards can be used to check out a kit.
bulletNo more than two kits at a time may be checked out to an individual.
bulletOverdue book discussion kits will be fined $1.00 a day per kit.
bulletKits must be returned to the Circulation Dept. desk while the library is open (the containers will not fit through the 24-hour drop box slots).

Book Discussion Kit Titles

bulletAbout a Boy by Nick Hornby
bulletAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
bulletAtonement by Ian McEwan
bulletBee Season by Myla Goldberg
bulletBefore You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
bulletBel Canto by Ann Patchett
bulletBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
bulletBreath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
bulletCold Mountain by Charles Frazier
bulletColors of the Mountain by Da Chen
bulletCo. Aytch by Sam Watkins
bulletConfederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
bulletThe Covenant by Naomi Ragen
bulletCrow Lake by Mary Lawson
bulletCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
bulletCurious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
bulletThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
bulletDairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
bulletDaughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende
bulletDevil in the White City by Erik Larson
bulletCOMING SOON! Dewey: the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Watkins
bulletDivine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
bulletThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
bulletThe Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
bulletFast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
bulletFounding Brothers by Joseph Ellis (pdf)
bulletFriday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
bulletGarlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
bulletGilead by Marilynne Robinson
bulletGirl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
bulletGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
bulletThe Giver by Lois Lowry
bulletGlass Castle by Jeanette Walls
bulletGreatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
bulletThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
bulletHindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan
bulletThe Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
bulletCOMING SOON! Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
bulletIn the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien (pdf)
bulletInn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
bulletInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
bulletInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
bulletInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
bulletThe Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
bulletKite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
bulletLaw of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
bulletLearning Joy from Dogs Without Collars by Lauralee Summer
bulletLost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
bullet Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
bulletMadame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
bulletMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
bulletThe Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
bulletMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
bulletMiss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Alan Paton
bulletMontana 1948 by Larry Watson
bulletNanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
bulletNorthanger Abbey by Jane Austen
bulletNo. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
bulletOne Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
bulletThe Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson
bulletPatchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
bulletPlainsong by Kent Haruf
bulletPope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
bulletPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
bulletThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
bulletPrize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan
bulletThe Promise by Oral Lee Brown
bulletRed Tent by Anita Diamant
bulletRenovations by John Marchese
bulletRoad from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
bulletThe Savage Garden by Mark Mills
bulletThe Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival by Sara Tuvel Bernstein
bulletShipping News by E. Annie Proulx
bulletSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
bulletThe Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
bulletStill Alice by Lisa Genova
bulletThe Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks
bulletA Theory of Relativity by Jacquelyn Mitchard
bulletA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
bulletThread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
bulletThe Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
bulletTortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle
bulletUnder the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
bullet The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
bulletWaiting by Ha Jin
bulletWalk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
bulletWalking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
bulletWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
bulletThe Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
bulletWhite Noise by Don Delillo
bulletWhite Oleander by Janet Fitch
Youth Book Discussions:
bulletBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DeCamillo
bulletEverything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
bulletHoles by Louis Sachar
bulletJoey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
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