TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Book Club to Go Titles:
 The alchemist – Paulo Coehlo (NYCL)
 American wife – Curtis Sittenfeld (ND)
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 Clara Callan – Richard Bruce Wright (RI)
 The flight of Gemma Hardy – Margot Livesey (RI)
 Cold mountain – Charles Frazier (BF)
 The film club – David Gilmour (ACD)
 The color of lightning – Paulette Jiles (ACD)
 The flying Troutmans – Miriam Toews (ACD)
 Come, thou tortoise – Jessica Grant (BF)
 419 – Will Ferguson (ACD, RI)
A complicated kindness – Miriam Toews (BF)
 Any known blood – Lawrence Hill (SWS)
 Consolation – Michael Redhill (NYCL)
 Are you somebody: The accidental memoir of a
Dublin woman – Nuala O’Faolain (NYCL)
 The cookbook collector – Allegra Goodman (ACD)
 Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress –
Sijie Dai (BF)
 Coventry – Helen Humphreys (RI)
 Crow Lake – Mary Lawson (BF)
 The free world – David Bezmozgis (BF)
 The Forgotten Garden – Kate Morton (ACD)
 Freedom – Jonathan Franzen (ACD)
 The frozen Thames – Helen Humphreys (ND)
 The garden of evening mists –
 Twan Eng Tan (ND)
 The gargoyle – Andrew Davidson (NYCL)
 Becoming Jane Eyre – Sheila Kohler (ND)
 The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
– Mark Haddon (ND)
Cutting for stone – Abraham Verghese (ND)
 The beginner’s goodbye – Anne Tyler (ND)
 De Niro’s game – Rawi Hage (NYCL)
 Girl with a pearl earring – Tracy Chevalier (NYCL)
 Bel Canto – Ann Patchett (ACD, ND)
 Deaf sentence – David Lodge (ACD)
 The best laid plans – Terry Fallis (SWS)
 Death comes to Pemberley – P. D. James (SWS)
 Girls fall down –
Maggie Helwig (NYCL)
 The beautiful mystery – Penny Louise (ACD)
 The birth house – Ami McKay (BF)
 The birth of Venus – Sarah Dunant (ND)
 The Bishop’s man – Linden MacIntyre (RI, SWS)
 Blessings – Anna Quindlen (RI)
 Blooms of darkness – Aron Appelfeld (ACD)
 The book thief – Marcus Zusak (ACD)
 The brain that changes itself –
Norman Doidge (SWS)
 Brick lane – Monica Ali (BF)
Defending Jacob – William Landay (ND)
 Desirable daughters – Bharati Mukherjee (BF)
 The dinner – Herman Koch (NYCL)
 The dovekeepers – Alice Hoffman (ND)
 TheThe dress lodger – Sheri Holman (NYCL)
 Dr Brinkley’s Tower – Robert Hough (ACD)
 Eat, pray, love – Elizabeth Gilbert (ACD)
 The elegance of the hedgehog –
Muriel Barbery (NYCL, BF)
 Gilead – Marilynne Robinson (ND)
 The glass castle: A memoir –
Jeannette Walls (ACD, SWS)
 The known world – Edward P. Jones (BF)
 I shall not hate – Izzeldin Abuelaish (ACD)
 The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks –
Rebecca Skloot (RI)
 The imperfectionists – Tom Rachman (BF)
The Imposter Bride – Nancy Richler (ACD)
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 In a strange room: three journeys –
Damon Galgut (SWS)
Indian Horse – Richard Wagamese (NYCL)
 Intolerable – Kamal Al-Solaylee (ACD)
 The jade peony – Wayson Choy (ND)
 The Jane Austen book club – Karen Joy Fowler
(NYCL)
 Gods behaving badly – Marie Phillips (NYCL)
 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (RI)
 Gold – Chris Cleave (SWS)
 Kabul Beauty School –
Deborah Rodriguez (RI)
 The good women of China: Hidden voices –
Xinran (NYCL)
 Keeping the world away – Margaret Forster (SWS)
 Great house – Nicole Krauss (BF)
 The kite runner – Khaled Hosseini (NYCL)
 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie
Society – Mary Ann Shaffer (BF, NYCL, SWS)
 The last crossing – Guy Vanderhaeghe (NYCL)
 Half-blood blues – Esi Edugyan (NYCL)
 Emperor of Paris – C. S. Richardson (SWS)
 Half broke horses – Jeannette Walls (NYCL)
 Brooklyn – Colm Tóibín (SWS)
 The emperor’s children – Claire Messud (ND)
 By nightfall – Michael Cunningham (ACD)
 The end of your life book club –
Will Schwalbe (ND)
 Half of a yellow sun –
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (BF)
 Can you hear the nightbird call? –
Anita Rau Badami (ND)
 Every man dies alone – Hans Fallada (NYCL)
The Headmaster’s Wager –
Vincent Lam (RI)
 The cat`s table – Michael Ondaatje (ND)
 Everything is illuminated –
Jonathan Safran Foer (BF)
 The help – Kathryn Stockett (BF, NYCL, RI)
 The Celtic riddle – Lyn Hamilton (NYCL)
 Exit lines – Joan Barfoot (RI)
 The hiding place – Trezza Azzopardi (NYCL)
 The cellist of Sarajevo –
Steven Galloway (NYCL, SWS)
 Fahrenheit 451 –
Ray Bradbury (SWS)
 The history of love – Nicole Krauss (BF)
 Christine Falls – Benjamin Black
(ACD)
▪ The Fault in Our Stars – John Green (RI)
 The Finkler question – Howard Jackobson (BF)
Illuminations: a novel of Hildegard von Bingen –
Mary Sharratt (NYCL)
 The glenwood treasure – Kim Moritsugu (BF)
 Bride of New France –
Suzanne Desrochers (SWS)
 February – Lisa Moore (ACD)
 How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer (ACD)
 I know why the caged bird sings –
Maya Angelou (SWS)
 Homer & Langley – E. L. Doctorow (NYCL)
 Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet –
Jamie Ford (BF)
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House in the Sky – Amanda Lindhout (BF)
 House of sand and fog – Andre Dubus (NYCL)
 How it all began – Penelope Lively (NYCL)
 Last man in tower – Aravind Adiga (NYCL)
 Last policeman – Ben Winters (NYCL)
 Late nights on air – Elizabeth Hay (ACD)
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 Letters To My Daughters – Fawiza Koofi (ACD)
 Life after life – Kate Atkinson (ND) (ACD)
 The lifeboat – Charlotte Rogan (NYCL)
 Light between oceans – M. L. Stedman (BF)
 Little bee – Chris Cleave (SWS)
 Longbourn by Jo Baker (RI)
 A lost lady – Willa Cather (NYCL)
 The lovely bones – Alice Sebold ( RI)
 Loving Frank – Nancy Horan (RI, BF)
 Luck – Joan Barfoot (RI)
 Mme. Proust and the kosher kitchen –
Kate Taylor (BF)
 The Madonna of Excelsior – Zakes Mda (NYCL)
 Major Pettigrew’s last stand –
Helen Simonson (ND)
 Orfeo – Richard Powers (ND)
 Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood (NYCL)
 Septembers of Shiraz – Dalia Sofer (BF)
 To the End of the Land –
David Grossman ( BF)
A tree grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith (ACD)
 The other side of the bridge – Mary Lawson (ACD)
 Shanghai girls – Lisa See (NYCL)
 True confections – Katharine Weber (RI)
 The outlander – Gil Adamson (NYCL)
 The man from Beijing – Henning Mankell (BF)
 The Painted Girls – Cathy Marie Buchanan (SWS)
 The man in the white sharkskin suit –
Lucette Lagnado (BF)
 The Paris wife – Paula McLain (RI, BF)
 A map of glass – Jane Urquhart (RI)
 March: A novel – Geraldine Brooks (NYCL)
 The marriage bureau for rich people –
Farahad Zama (ACD)
 The sense of an ending – Julian Barnes (ND)
 Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom (BF)
 The Signature of All Things –
Elizabeth Gilbert (RI)
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 The Silent Wife – A.S.A. Harrison (ACD)
 The twelve Tribes of Hattie – Mathis Ayna (RI)
 The uncommon reader – Alan Bennett (RI)
 The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry –
Rachel Joyce (BF)
 Sing you home – Jodi Picoult (RI)
 Particular sadness of lemon cake –
Aimee Bender (ACD)
 Sister – Rosamund Lupton (SWS)
Unorthodox – Deborah Feldman (NYCL)
 People of the book – Geraldine Brooks (SWS)
 The Sisters brothers – Patrick deWitt (NYCL)
Up and down – Terry Fallis (SWS)
 Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi (ND)
 The Massey Murder – Charlotte Gray (SWS)
 The piano tuner – Daniel Mason (ACD, ND)
 The master and Margarita –
M. Bulgakov (ND)
 The places in between – Rory Stewart (NYCL)
Sisters From Hard Scrabble Katherine King(ACD)
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 Skinner’s Drift – Lisa Fugard (BF)
 The very thought of you – Rosie Alison (SWS)
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The virgin cure – Ami McKay (BF)
 Wall of light – Edeet Ravel (BF)
Plain Truth – Jodi Picoult (RI)
 Small island – Andrea Levy (NYCL)
 Pope Joan: A novel –
Donna Woolfolk Cross (NYCL)
 Someone – Alice McDermott (SWS)
 Midnight at the Dragon Café –
Judy Fong Bates (ACD, BF, NYCL, RI, SWS)
 The postmistress – Sarah Blake (BF)
 Something fierce: memoirs of a revolutionary
daughter – Carmen Aguirre (SWS)
 We need to talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver (BF)
 Midwife of Venice – Roberta Rich (BF)
 The Pull of the Moon – Elizabeth Berg (ACD)
 Soucouyant – David John Chariandy (SWS)
 Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones (BF)
 Purple hibiscus – Chimamanda N. Adichie (BF)
 The white tiger – Aravind Adiga (NYCL, BF)
 Mistress of nothing – Kate Pullinger (ND)
 Quiet – Susan Cain (RI)
 More – Austin Clarke (SWS)
 The reader – Bernhard Schlink (NYCL)
 Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour bookshop –
 Robin Sloan (NYCL)
 Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi (BF)
 The memory keeper’s daughter –
Kim Edwards (ACD)
 The wasted vigil – Nadeem Aslam (ACD)
 Water for elephants – Sarah Gruen (ACD, NYCL)
 Wench – Dolen Perkins-Valez (NYCL)
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The sound of language – Amulya Malladi
(BF)(ACD)
 Why be happy when you could be normal –
Jeanette Winterson (ACD)
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The sparrow – Mary Doria Russell (NYCL)
The Space Between – Diana Gabaldonl (ACD)
 State of wonder – Ann Patchett (SWS)
 Wild – Cheryl Strayed (RI)
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 Wildflower Hill– Kimberley Freeman (ACD)
 The reluctant fundamentalist –
Mohsin Hamid (NYCL, BF)
 Still Alice – Lisa Genova (SWS)(ACD)
 The winter palace – Eva Stachniak (RI)
 The submission – Amy Waldman (SWS)
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 Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky (BF)
 Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel (BF)
 My sister’s keeper – Jodi Picoult (RI)
 Remarkable creatures –
Tracy Chevalier (NYCL)
 Nanjing requiem – Ha Jin (NYCL)
 The road home – Rose Tremain (SWS)
 The No. 1 Ladies Detective
Agency –
Alexander McCall Smith (NYCL)
 Room – Emma Donoghue (ND)
 The Museum of Extraordinary Things –
Alice Hoffman (ND)
 The ocean at the end of the lane –
Neil Gaiman (ND)
 Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout (ND)
 The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
(BF)
 Ru – Kim Thúy (NYCL)
 Rush Home Road – Lori Lansens (BF)
 The Omnivore’s dilemma : a natural history of
four meals (SWS)
 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed – Jonas
Jonasson (ACD)
 Sweetness at the bottom of the pie –
Alan Bradley (ACD)
 Sweetness in the belly – Camilla Gibb ( BF)
 Swimming home – Deborah Levy (NYCL)
 Tell the Wolves I’m Home – Carol Rivka Brunt
(BF)
 Sarah’s key – Tatiana De Rosnoy (BF)
 The ten-year nap – Meg Wolitzer (ACD)
 The secret daughter –
Shilipa Somaya Gowda (RI) (ACD)
 Tinkers – Paul Harding (RI)
 Open city – Teju Cole (NYCL)
 The secret life of bees – Sue Monk Kidd (BF)
 The Orenda – Joseph Boyden (RI)
 The secret mitzvah of Lucio Burke –
Steven Hayward (ND)
 Three cups of tea – Greg Mortenson (ND)
 The time in between – David Bergen (NYCL)
 The time traveler’s wife – A. Niffenegger (ACD)
 The woman upstairs – Claire Messud (NYCL)
ABOUT THE
BOOK CLUB SETS:
A set consists of multiple copies of a
book for use by book clubs and book
discussion groups. The books can be
borrowed by any book club, and signed
out by individual members, or by one
designated person.
They may be booked in advance by
phone or in person (not online). The loan
period is 6 weeks. The books cannot be
renewed because others may be waiting.
Each set may be booked, picked up and
returned to the branch borrowed and
picked up at.
October 2014
Book Club Sets are available at:
Albert Campbell (ACD)
416-396-8890
Barbara Frum (BF)
416-395-5440
North York Central (NYCL)
416-395-5535
Northern District (ND)
416-393-7610
Richview Branch (RI)
416-394-5120
S. Walter Stewart (SWS)
416-396-3975
Contact the above branches to make a
booking and arrange for pick up.
NEW for 2014
Available in eBook