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 club 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.

For additional info, please contact the Service Desk at 920-686-3000 or email mplservice@manitowoc.org.

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In search of a book discussion kit, or multiple copies of a title that our library system does not own? Please fill out the linked form for staff to put a kit together for you.

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Newest Book Club Kit Additions

Available Book Club Kit Titles

84, Charing Cross Road
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

A

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
And Then There Were None
Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral
Apples Never Fall: A Novel
The Art of Fielding
Atonement

B

Beach Glass & Other Broken Things
Because of Bethlehem
Because of Winn-Dixie
Before I Let Go
Before You Know Kindness: A Novel
Bel Canto
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Bone House
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel
The Book Woman's Daughter: A Novel
The Bookshop
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Brave New World
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Burn Baby Burn

C

Christmas Cake Murder
The Christmas Town
"Co. Aytch": A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake
Crow Lake
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

D

Dairy Queen
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love
The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan
Ditch Flowers

E

Educated: A Memoir
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners
Everything on a Waffle
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

F

The Falls: A Novel
Firekeeper's Daughter
Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
A Gentleman in Moscow
Gilead
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
The Greatest Generation
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

H

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
The Hating Game
Haunted Wisconsin
The Help
The Hidden Legacy: A Novel
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Hindi-Bindi Club
The Hobbit
Home for Christmas
The Honey Bus
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
House Broken
The Hundred-Foot Journey: A Novel
The Hunger Games
The Husband's Secret

I

I Am Malala: The girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Inn at Lake Devine
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
The Irish Cowboy

J

Jingle all the Way: A Novel

K

The Kind Worth Killing
The Kitchen House
The Kite Runner

L

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
The Last Chance Library
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Law of Similars
Lessons in Chemistry
Lies
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
Lights Out in Lincolnwood: A Novel
Lilac Girls: A Novel
A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories
Looking for Me
Loving Frank: A Novel

M

A Man Called Ove: A Novel
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Memoir of the Sunday Brunch
Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Midnight Library
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind: A Novel
The Mourning Hours
My Antonia
My Name Is Mary Sutter

N

News of the World: A Novel
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West
Nothing to See Here
Nutshell: A Novel

O

Olive Kitteridge
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love
Ordinary Grace: A Novel
Other People's Houses
Our Missing Hearts
Our Souls at Night

P

Parkland: Birth of a Movement
The Patron Saint of Liars
Patty Jane's House of Curl: A Novel
Plainsong
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Pride and Prejudice
The Princess Bride
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of 1st Graders to College

R

Razorblade Tears
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Rebecca
Red at the Bone
Refugee
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Return to Wake Robin: One Cabin in the Heyday of Northwoods Resorts
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Road from Coorain
Room: A Novel
The Rosie Project

S

The Santa Suit
Sarah's Key
The Savage Garden
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel
The Second Sister
The Seventeen Second Miracle
Skipping Christmas: A Novel
Small Things Like These

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Sold on a Monday: A Novel
Someone Knows
Still Alice: A Novel
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
Stress Fracture: A Memoir of Psychosis
The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat: A Novel

T

The Tortilla Curtain
A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel
There There
The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
Those Who Save Us
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Time Traveler's Wife: A Novel
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Two Rivers: A Novel

U

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Under the Tuscan Sun
Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

V

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

W

The Wedding Dress
The Whistling Season
The World's Largest Man: A Memoir
Walking Across Egypt
Water for Elephants
We are Unprepared: A Novel
We Begin at the End
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Whistling in the Dark
White Oleander
Wingshooters: A Novel
Winter Garden
Wonder

Bags of book club kits on shelf

Kits designed to keep the conversation going, complete with multiple copies of the selected title and a master discussion guide. Please note: you must see library staff to place holds on kits.

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Youth Book Discussion kit in green tote bag on shelf

Thematic book kits designed for educators and group leaders to share and discuss with youth. Please note: you must see library staff to place holds on youth kits.

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