Stress-free Book Group

• Book group leaders may reserve a title from October through June.
• The books can be checked out for a four week loan.
• There are at least 12 copies available of each title
• Discussion questions are available.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg

A Most Unsuitable Man by Jo Beverly

She's Not There: a life in two genders by Jennifer Boylan *

The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle

March by Geraldine Brooks

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

The Brothers Bulger by Howie Carr *

The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment

Body and Soul by Frank Conroy

A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies by Ellen Cooney

Must Love Dogs by Claire Cook

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai

Train by Peter Dexter

A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion *

The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Divakaruni

The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant

The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey *

The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner *

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert *

Still Life with Chickens by Catherine Goldhammer *

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore *

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand *

The World to Come by Dara Horn

Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz *

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Program by Gregg Hurwitz

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King *

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver *

The Mystery of Breathing by Perri Klass

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott

The Girls by Lori Lansens

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson *

All About Passion by Stephanie Laurens

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Reunion by Alan Lightman

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Singing Boy by Dennis McFarland

Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich *

Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh Moaveni *

The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer *

Wintering by Kate Moses

The Man in my Basement by Walter Mosley

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisis *

Peace at Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh *

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins *

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick *

Mercy by Jodi Picoult

Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

Brokeback Mountain: story to screenplay by Annie Proulx

The Elegant Gathering of the White Snows by Kris Radish

Firefly Beach by Luanne Rice

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Soloist by Mark Salzman

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Unless by Carol Shields

Eating Heaven by Jenny Shortridge

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate

Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks *

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

The Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper

Falling Through the Earth by Danielle Trussoni *

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Urrea

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell *

The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls

Fingersmith by Sara Waters

Night by Elie Wiesel *

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins

Smashed: story of a drunken girlhood by Koren Zailckas *

• * - nonfiction title