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List of Multiple Copies                       
Note: The information on these pages is taken from the most
current data each library has provided.  If your library holdings
are incorrect, please contact the ARRT Homepage Coordinator


A                                                         
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Accidental by Ali Smith
Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Ake: the Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth  

Amy and Isabel by Elizabeth Strout
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Anna's Book by Barbara Vine
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Arm of the Stone by Victoria Strauss
Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Assassin Apprentice by Robin Hobbs
Assistant by Bernard Malamud
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Attack by Yasmina Khadra
Awakening by Kate Chopin
Away by Amy Bloom


B
 
Can't find what you are looking for in alphabetical listing below? 
Here are additional links to libraries with book group collections. 

For additional information, contact library directly. 



Barrington Area Library

http://www.barringtonarealibrary.org/books/book_discussion_kits

Berwyn Public Library

http://www.berwynlibrary.org/adult-services-1/book-discussion-kits.html

Cook Memorial Library
http://encore.cooklib.org/iii/encore/search/C%7CS%22cook+
discussion+book%22%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def


Des Plaines Public Library

http://64.107.155.140/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/DesPlaines/0/57/5?&searchdata1=
&user_id=dpkibistro&password=ibistro&library=DESPLAINES&item_
1cat=656&sort_by=AU


Glenview Public Library

http://www.glenviewpl.org/browndot.htm

and
http://64.107.155.140/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/GLENVIEW/0/57/5?searchdata1=
glenview+book+discussion+in+a+bag&user_id=gvkibistro&password=
ibistro&password=ibistro
 

Mount Prospect Public Library

http://www.mppl.org/books/books2go.html


Niles Public Library
http://www.nileslibrary.org/readlistenview/#Read

Northbrook Public Library

http://www.northbrook.info/lib_fiction_discussion.php


Wauconda Public Library
Wauconda Book Club Kits

Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler 
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Becoming Human by Valerie Freireich
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bell for Adano by John Hersey
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Blessed Assurance by A.G. Mojtabai
Blessings by Anna Quindlen
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger
Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Breach of Promise by Anne Perry
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Bright Forever by Lee Martin
Bright Orange for the Shroud by John D. MacDonald
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos 
Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell
Buddenbrooks by Thoman Mann


C
Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Case of Two Cities by Qiu Xiaolong
Cast of Shadows by Kevin Guilfoile
Cat's Eye By Margaret Atwood
Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertold Brecht
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee by Robert Van Gulik
Certain Slant of Light by Cynthia Thayer
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
Chatham School Affair by Thomas Cook
Cheri and the Last of Cheri by Collette
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott
Cider House Rules by John Irving
Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai
City of Light by Lauren Belfour
Clean Slate by Laura Caldwell
Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
Coastliners by Joanne Harris
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Collapse by Jared Diamond
Color of Water by James McBride
Comedians by Graham Greene
Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis De Berneires
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Crossing California by Adam Langer
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon


D
Daisy Dooley Does Divorce by Anna Pasternak
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Dark Star Safari by Paul Theroux
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Davita's Harp by Chaim Potok
Dawn by Octavia Butler
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Deader by the Lake by Doug Cummings
Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Death of a Thousand Cuts by Barbara D'Amato
Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
Desert Queen by Janet Wallach
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Disobedience by Naomi Alderman
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
Don't Call it Night by Amos Oz
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
Drowning Pool by Ross MacDonald
Dry Water by Eric Nyland
Dubliners by James Joyce
Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg


E
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
Emma by Jane Austen
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Enemies by Isaac Singer
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy

Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins
Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Eye Contact by Cammie McGovern
Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde


F
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah
Family Markowitz by Allegra Goodman

Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Feather Crowns by Bobbie Ann Mason
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
Flight of Michael McBride by Midori Snyder 
Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Forsythe Saga by John Galsworthy
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels


G
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
Garden Spells by Sara Addison Allen
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag
Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Kohn
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland 
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Glass Devil by Helene Turston
Golden Key by Melanie Rawn
Good Harbor by Anita Diamant
Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
Good Omen by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Great Escape by Kati Marton
Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


H
Ha-Ha by Dave King
Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Hanna's Daughters by Marianne Fredriksson
Hard Landing by Algis Budrys
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
History of Love by Nicole Kraus
Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holy Smoke by Tonino Benaquista
Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Hours by Michael Cunningham
House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Howard's End by E.M. Forster
Human Stain by Philip Roth


I
I Capture the Castle by Dodi Smith
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
In the Castle of the Flynns by Michael Raleigh
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathanial Philbrick
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Independent People by Halidor Laxness
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Iron Dragon's Daughter by Mike Swanwick
Ironweed by William Kennedy
Isn't it Romantic? by Ron Hansen

J
Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Jar City by Amaldur Indriason
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Jhereg by Stephen Brust
Jim the Boy by Tony Early
Journey from the Land of No by R'uya Dakkaklyan
Joy School by Elizabeth Berg
Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
Jungle by Upton Sinclair

K
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Katherine by Anchee Min
Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
Killer's Payoff by Ed McBain
Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Known World by Edward P. Jones


L
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler
Ladies Coupe by Anita Nair
Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer
Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
Landscape of Lies by Peter Watson
Last Call by Laura Pedersen
Last Orders by Graham Swift
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Law of Similars by Christopher Bohjalian
Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
Life Before Us by Romain Gary
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
Light in August by William Faulkner
Little Children by Tom Perotta
Little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley
Little Friend by Donna Tarrt
Littlejohn by Howard Owen
Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Long For This World by Michael Byers
Looking Backward by Ed Ballamy
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
Lost in Place by Mark Salzman
Louisiana Power and Light by John Dufresne
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Lovely Bones by Alice Seboldt
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman


M
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
Mainline by Deborah Christian
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living by Martin Clark
March by Geraldine Brooks
Martian Rainbow by Robert Forward
Martin Dressler by Steven Millhauser
Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt
Mazel by Rebecca Goldstein
Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier
Medicus by Ruth Downie
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight at the Dragon Cafe by Judy Fong Bates
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Midwives by Christopher Bohjalian
Mind Changer by James White 
Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakarum
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai
Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust by Fern Schumer Chapman
Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing by May Sarton
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane


N
Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz
Never Die Easy by Walter Payton
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
New York Burning by Joll Lepore
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Night by Elie Wiesel
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by R. Alexander McCall Smith
No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
Number of the Beast by Robert Heinlein

O
O. Henry Prize Stories (1999)
Old Friends by Tracy Kidder
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
One Christmas by Truman Capote
One Dangerous Lady by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Open Secrets by Alice Munroe
Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
Orange Blossom Special by Betsy Carter
Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Our Lady of the Forest by Daniel Guterson


P
Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Palace Thief by Ethan Canin
Palace Walk by Najib Mahfuz
Palestine Affair by Jonathan Wilson
Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
Paper Fish by Tina DeRosa
Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna Landvik
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Pearl by John Steinbeck
Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason
Pigs Don't Fly by Mary Brown
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Playing With the Enemy by Gary Moore
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Pompeii by Robert Harris
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Price of Land in Shelby by Laurie Alberts
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prime of Miss Jean Brody by Muriel Spark
Professor's House by Willa Cather
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Puttermusser Papers by Cynthia Ozick


Q
Queen of Dreams by Chitra Divakaruni


R
Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
Reader by Bernard Schlink
Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Red Azalea by Anchee Min
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
Rich Part of Life by Jim Kokoris
Road by Cormac McCarthy
Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam, Jr.
Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham
Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown
Running With Scissors by Augusten  Burroughs


S
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Sculptress by Minette Walters
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Lauren Hillenbrand
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta
Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
Severed Wasp by Madeline L'Engle
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
Singing and Dancing Daughters of God by Timothy Shaffert
Sinking of the Eastland by Jay Bonansinga
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Skin Tight by Carl Hiassen
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping at the Starlight Motel by Bailey White
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Snow Queen by Joan Vinge
So Big by Edna Ferber
Soloist by Mark Salzman
Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
Spring Torrents by Ivan Turgenev
Staggerford by John Hassler
Statement by Brian Moore
Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi
Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Sula by Toni Morrison
Summer We Got Saved by Pat Cunningham Devoto
Summons to Memphis by Peter Hillsman Taylor
Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish


T
Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams
Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore
Tender Mercies by Rosellen Brown
Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
That Night by Alice McDermott
Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
This Year Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Three Strikes You're Dead by Robert Goldsborough

Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Trail of Tears by John Ehle
Tripwire by Lee Child
True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
Truth and Beauty Ann Patchett
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Two Lives by William Trevor


U
Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose 
Unfinished Life by Mark Spragg
Unless by Carol Shields


V
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
Virtuous Woman by Kaye Gibbons


W
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Waiting by Ha Jin
Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Ward Number Six and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand by Fred Vargas
Washington Square by Henry James
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Wedding in December by Anita Shreve
Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
When the World Was Young by Tony Romano
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath
Whiteman by Tony D'Souza
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
Winter Wheat by Mildred Walker
With or Without You by Carole Matthews
World Lit Only by Fire by William Manchester

x
Y

Yakota Officer's Club by Sarah Bird
Year of Fog
by Michelle Richmond

Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Yellow Raft in Blue Water
by Michael Dorris

Z
 

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