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These sets of books were purchased for the Library's public book clubs by the Friends of the Library. Private book clubs may arrange to borrow sets of books by contacting Jimi Rider. Updated June 2009.

Title Author # of copies
2001 a Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 10
Activist's Daughter Bache, Ellyn 19
Age of Innocence Wharton, Edith 15
All the King's Men Warren, Robert Penn 13
All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac 14
All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton Smiley, Jane 11
Anchor, P. Moore, Proprietor Wyche, Blonnie 16
Angle of Repose Stegner, Wallace 9
Animal Dreams Kingsolver, Barbara 14
Atonement McEwan, Ian 15
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Vargas, Mario Llosa 15
Bean Trees Kingsolver, Barbara 15
Bel Canto Patchett, Ann 19
Best American Short Stories of the Century Best American… 10
Between the Rivers Booth, Carolyn R. 12
Blind Assassin Atwood, Margaret 11
Bonesetter's Daughter Tan, Amy 8
Book of Ruth Hamilton, Jane 15
Breath, eyes, memory Danticat, Edwidge 15
Breathing Lessons Tyler, Anne 12
Cape Fear Rising Gerard, Philip 12 
Celestial Omnibus Celestial… 12
Charms for the Easy Life Gibbons, Kaye 15
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles 18 
Confederacy of Dunces Toole, John Kennedy 15
Corelli's Mandolin DeBernieres, Louis 15
Crossing McCarthy, Cormac 11
Crossing to Safety Stegner, Wallace 21
Cry, the Beloved Country Paton, Alan 12
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Haddon, Mark 15
Daughter of Fortune Allende, Isabel 15
Delta Wedding Welty, Eudora

15

Dive from Clausen's Pier Packer, Ann 15
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Wells, Rebecca 17
East Liberty Bathanti, Joseph 16
Emma Austen, Jane 15
Empire Falls Russo, Richard 15
Family Matters  Mistry, Rohinton 15
Fine Balance Mistry, Rohinton 15
Floatplane Notebook Edgerton, Clyde 14
Free Man of Color Hambly, Barbara 14
Gathering Enright, Anne 15
Gilead Robinson, Marilynne 5
God of Small Things Roy, Arundhati 14
Good Earth Buck, Pearl 15
Great Gatsby Fitzgerald, F. Scott 15
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Eggers, Dave
Hours Cunningham, Michael 19
House of Sand and Fog Dubus, Andre 12
House of the Spirits Allende, Isabel 16
House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra 14
How to Make an American Quilt Otto, Whitney 13
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked out All… Straight, Susan 12
Imaginary Life  Malouf, David 15
In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez, Julia 15
Invisible Man Ellison, Ralph 11
Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas 15
Kindred Butler, Octavia 11
King Lear Shakespeare 15
Kite Runner Hosseini, Khaled 15
Known World Jones, Edward 12
Ladder of Years Tyler, Anne 16
Ladies of Missalonghi McCullough, Colleen 12
Last Chinese Chef  Mones, Nicole 17
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Erdich, Louise 15
Lesson Before Dying Gaines, Ernest 14
Life of Pi Martel, Yann 19
Like Water for Chocolate Esquivel, Gloria 15
Lolita Nabokov, Vladimir 10
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven Alexie, Sherman 15
Look Homeward Angel Wolfe, Thomas 13
Love in a Dry Season Foote, Shelby 15
Madonnas of Leningrad Dean, Debra 15
Map of the World Hamilton, Jane 11
March Brooks, Geraldine 15
Memory Keeper's Daughter Edwards, Kim 15
Mermaid Chair Kidd, Sue Monk 13
Middlemarch Eliot, George 15
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffrey 17
Million Little Pieces Frey, James 12
Morality Play Unsworth, Barry 16
Motherless Brooklyn Lethem, Jonathan 15
Moviegoer Percy, Walker 15
Mrs. Dalloway Woolf, Virginia 13
My Antonia Cather, Willa 14
My Sister's Keeper Picoult, Jodi 11
Namesake Lahiri, Jhumpa 16
Nanny Diaries McLaughlin et al

5

Never Let Me Go Ishiguro, Kazuo 15
No Great Mischief MacLeod, Alistair 15
One Hundred Years of Solitude Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 17
One Thousand White Women Fergus, Jim 12
Optimist's Daughter Welty, Eudora 13
Our Man in Havana Greene, Graham 15
Pact Picoult, Jodi 15
Passage to India Forster, E. M. 10
Peace Like a River Enger, Leif 7
Persepolis Satrapi, Marjane 45
Piano Tuner Mason, Daniel P 16
Pick Up Gordimer, Nadine 15
Pilot's Wife Shreve, Anita 15
Plainsong Haruf, Kent 12
Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver, Barbara 15
Prodigal Summer Kingsolver, Barbara 16
Rapture of Canaan Reynolds, Sheri 13
Reader Schlink, Bernhard 19
Red Tent Diamant, Anita 16
Revelation Payne, Peggy 13
Run with the Horsemen Sams, Ferrol 12
Sally Hemings Chase-Riboud 12
Saltwater Cowboys Morris, Bill
Samurai's Garden Tsukiyama, Gail 17
Saturday McEwan, Ian 15
Schindler's List Keneally, Thomas 15
Sea Glass Shreve, Anita 10 
Second Glance Picoult, Jodi 15
Secret Life of Bees Kidd, Sue Monk 13
Seize the Day Bellow, Saul 15
Severed Head Murdoch, Iris 15
Shack Young, William 15
Shadow of the Wind Ruiz Zafon, Carlos 13
Shipping News Proulx, E. Annie 14
Sights Unseen Gibbons, Kaye 9
Snow Falling on Cedars Guterson, David 15
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan See, Lisa 6
Snow in August Hamill, Pete 6
Song of Solomon Morrison, Toni 15
Song of the Lark Cather, Willa 15
Space Between Us Umrigar, Thrity 15
Spanish Lover Trollope, Joanna 14
Sparrow Russell, Mary Doria 15
Stone Diaries Shields, Carol 21
Stones for Ibarra Doerr, Harriet 13
Stones from the River Hegi, Ursula 17
Suite Francaise Nemirovsky 15
Tattoo Artist Ciment, Jill 15
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Hardy, Thomas 15
Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston, Zora Neale 17
Things Fall Apart Achebe, Chinua 14
Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane 15
Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 13
Three Junes Glass, Julia 19
Time and Again Finney, Jack 15
Time Traveler's Wife Niffeneggar, Audrey 15
Travels with My Aunt Greene, Graham 14 
Tulip Fever Moggach, Deborah
Turtle Moon Hoffman, Alice 15
Undercurrents Pearson, Ridley 6
Unless Shields, Carol 17
Very Long Engagement Japrisot, Sebastien 15
Virtuous Woman Gibbons, Kaye 18
Walking Across Egypt Edgerton, Clyde 13
Water for Elephants Gruen, Sara 20
We Were the Mulvaneys Oates, Joyce Carol 10
Wedding West, Dorothy 15
Weight of Water Shreve, Anita 17
Where the Heart Is Letts, Billie 15
While I Was Gone Miller, Sue 16
White Oleander Fitch, Janet 17
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean 15
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Pirsig, Robert 15

 
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