Book club sets
A number of book club sets are available for loan to established book club
groups. This service is currently available to all Queensland public libraries and
IKCs. Book club coordinators should contact their local library and register
their groups to access these sets. Each set has 10 copies of the same title.
Book club titles range from traditional to modern,
fiction and non-fiction and include many award
nominees and winners. Select from Australian and
international titles. Libraries with their own book
club sets are still welcome to borrow. If you have
library members interested in starting a book club
visit our website or contact [email protected]
Access
1. Go to the RLQ catalogue http://www.auroracloud.com.au/OPAC/QPIL/
2. Make the following selections:
a. Format: Bookclub Set
b. Location at: Public Library Services (PLS)
c. Tick Available in library
d. Click GO
3. Browse the list of available titles in the catalogue. Reserve a title and it
will be sent to your library.
View
 Use the catalogue as above, OR visit the website to browse a list of titles
http://www.plconnect.slq.qld.gov.au/services/reader-advisory/bookclub-sets
 Non-fiction titles are marked *; books with Indigenous content are
marked # for easier selection
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Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
Almost French / Sarah Turnbull *
Girl with a pearl earring / Tracy Chevalier
A fortunate life / A.B. Facey *
The pact / Jodi Picoult
The God of small things / Arundhati Roy
Ice station / Matthew Reilly
On the road / Jack Kerouac
Schindler's ark / Thomas Keneally
The secret history / Donna Tartt
Remembering Babylon / David Malouf
The kite runner / Khaled Hossein
Notes from a small island / Bill Bryson *
The lovely bones / Alice Sebold
Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee
The shipping news / E. Annie Proulx
The Sunday philosophy club /Alexander McCall Smith
A long, long way / Sebastian Barry
Thompson gunner / Nick Earls
Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin *
Murder in the palace / Iain Campbell
Eucalyptus / Murray Bail
The salt of broken tears / Michael Meehan
The hospital by the river / Catherine Hamlin *
Burial rites/Hannah Kent
March / Geraldine Brooks
The other Boleyn girl / Philippa Gregory
The English patient / Michael Ondaatje
Journey to the stone country / Alex Miller
The time traveller's wife / Audrey Niffenegger
Dirt music / Tim Winton
Daughter of fortune / Isabel Allende
The alchemist / Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden
Desert flower / Waris Dirie *
Cold mountain / Charles Frazier
True history of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
The Harmony Silk Factory / Tash Aw
Purple hibiscus / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon
The unbelievable lightness of scones / Alexander McCall Smith
Five quarters of the orange / Joanne Harris
Life of Pi / Yann Martel
To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee
Perfume : the story of a murderer / Patrick Suskind
The battlers / Kylie Tennant
The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende
In cold blood / Truman Capote *
Affection / Ian Townsend
Three brilliant careers / Ross Davies *
The unknown terrorist / Richard Flanagan
Owls do cry / Janet Frame
Time we have taken / Steven Carroll
The floating island / Anna Ralph
Digging to America / Anne Tyler
Corner of your eye / Kate Lyons
Rachel's holiday / Marian Keyes
The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai
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59. The book thief / Markus Zusak
60. The great fire / Shirley Hazzard
61. Water for elephants / Sara Gruen
62. Salmon fishing in the Yemen / Paul Torday
63. Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones
64. Birdsong / Sebastian Faulks
65. The tenderness of wolves / Stef Penney
66. The night ferry / Michael Robotham
67. Hit / Tara Moss
68. A long way down / Nick Hornby
69. The heaven I swallowed / Rachel Hennessy
70. Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel
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72. The watch tower / Elizabeth Harrower
73. East of Eden / John Steinbeck
74. The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
75. Howards End / E.M. Forster
76. Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
77. Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
78. One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey
79. The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
80. Pride and prejudice /Jane Austen
81. The shiralee / D'Arcy Niland
82. The bone clocks / David Mitchell
83. Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe
84. To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
85. Women in love / D.H. Lawrence
86. Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
87. Good morning, Mr Sarra / Chris Sarra * #
88. Double homicide / Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
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92. Blood & beauty / Sarah Dunant
93. Kitchen privileges : a memoir / Mary Higgins Clark *
94. Prodigal summer / Barbara Kingsolver
95. My island homicide / Catherine Titasey #
96. The lives of others / Neel Mukherjee
97. All the light we cannot see / Anthony Doerr
98. The long green shore / John Hepworth
99. Breakfast at Tiffany's / Truman Capote
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The chimney sweeper's boy / Barbara Vine
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Kingdom of fear / Hunter S. Thompson*
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Tree palace / Craig Sherborne
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Of mice and men / John Steinbeck
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Rabbit, run / John Updike
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South : the endurance expedition/ Ernest Shackleton *
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A year in Provence / Peter Mayle *
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The consolations of philosophy /Alain De Botton *
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The well / Elizabeth Jolley
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Unpolished gem / Alice Pung *
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Boycott / Lisa Forrest
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If this is a man : and, The truce / Primo Levy *
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Child 44 / Tom Rob Smith
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The golden age / Joan London
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The brutal art / Jesse Kellerman
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Monkey grip / Helen Garner
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Just me / Sheila Hancock *
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The reader / Bernhard Schlink
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The winter vault / Anne Michaels
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Sea of poppies / Amitav Ghosh
The white tiger / Aravind Adiga
The zookeeper's war / Steven Conte
Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
Norwegian wood / Haruki Murakami
The highest tide / Jim Lynch
Old filth / Jane Gardam
Skin and Bone / Kathryn Fox
Trip of a lifetime / Liz Byrski
The household guide to dying / Debra Adelaide
Addition / Toni Jordan
Those Faraday girls / Monica McInerney
The Murray Whelan trilogy / Shane Maloney
The forgotten garden / Kate Morton
The reinvention of Ivy Brown / Roberta Taylor
Floodtide / Judy Nunn
The china garden / Kristina Olsson
Jasper Jones : a novel / Craig Silvey
One life, my mother's story / Kate Grenville *
Dog boy / Eva Hornung
When the night comes / Favel Parrett
Truestory of Butterfish / Nick Earls
Breath / Tim Winton
Frozen circle / Peter Watt
Family law / Benjamin Law *
Brisbane / Matthew Condon *
Carpentaria / Alexis Wright #
The casuals / Sally Breen
White earth / Andrew McGahan
When colts ran / Roger McDonald
Legacy / Kirsten Tranter
Legacy / Tamara McKinley
Cockatoo: my life in Cape York / stories and art by Roy McIvor * #
Who am I? The diary of Mary Talence, Sydney, 1937 / Anita Heiss * #
Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman / Ronnie Summers with Helen Gee * #
Closer to Stone / Simon Cleary #
The Ottoman Motel / Christopher Currie
One city / Alexander McCall-Smith, Ian Rankin, etc
Blood and bone / Daniel Davis Wood
The brightest star in the sky / Marian Keyes
Johnno / David Malouf
Absolution Creek / Nicole Alexander
The fine colour of rust / P.A. O'Reilly
Foal's bread / Gillian Mears
The happiest refugee / Anh Do *
The heather blazing / Colm Toibin
The idea of home / John Hughes *
The last thread / Michael Sala
Listening to country / Ros Moriarty *
Past the shallows / Favel Parrett #
The ruins of us / Keija Parssinen
The sense of an ending / Julian Barnes
Smoke and mirrors / Kel Robertson
Waiting for sunrise / Willian Boyd
Wanting / Richard Flanagan
Well done those men / Barry Heard * #
Time's long ruin / Stephen Orr
The cartographer / Peter Twohig
All that I am / Anna Funder
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Book club sets
Cloud atlas / David Mitchell
Every secret thing / Marie Munkara
Fiveways / Ian Commins #
Omega Park / Amy Barker
Wings of fear / Helene Young
The illuminations / Andrew O'Hagan
Maralinga / Judy Nunn
To ride the wind / Peter Watt
Nice work / Jana Wendt *
House on the hill / Estelle Pinney
Beneath the darkening sky / Majok Tulba
The blind man's garden / Nadeem Aslam
Chasing the light / Jesse Blackadder
The language of flowers / Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The light between oceans / M.L. Stedman
The oldest song in the world / Sue Woolfe #
The Rosie project / Graeme Simsion
A history of silence / Lloyd Jones *
Questions of travel / Michelle De Kretser
The beloved / Anna Faulkner
The sundowners / Jon Cleary
My brother Jack / George Johnston
Coonardoo / Katherine Susannah Prichard #
The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith / Thomas Keneally #
The cattle king / Ion L. Idriess
The mind of a thief / Patti Miller
The kitchen house / Kathleen Grissom
Girl of shadows / Deborah Challinor
The search for Anne Perry / Joanne Drayton *
The ballad of Les Darcy / Peter FitzSimons *
The dogs of Littlefield / Suzanne Berne
An accidental soldier / John Charalambous
Ugly : my memoir / Robert Hoge *
Ghost moth / Michele Forbes
Tiddas / Anita Heiss #
The invention of wings / Sue Monk Kidd
The lives of Stella Bain / Anita Shreve
The lost child / Suzanne McCourt
Night games / Anna Krien
The pure gold baby / Margaret Drabble
Me and Mr Booker / Cory Taylor
The night guest / Fiona McFarlane
The narrow road to the deep north / Richard Flanagan
Truth / Peter Temple
The visitors / Sally Beauman
The birdwatcher / William McInnes
The undertaking / Audrey Magee
All the birds, singing / Evie Wyld
The swan book / Alexis Wright #
Life after life / Kate Atkinson
The valley of amazement / Amy Tan
The lie / Helen Dunmore
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The lost child of Philomena Lee / Martin Sixsmith *
The secret keeper / Kate Morton
Twelve years a slave / Solomon Northup *
Boy, lost / Kristina Olsson *
Big brother / Lionel Shriver
Cicada / Moira McKinnon
In my father's shadow / Chris Welles Feder *
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* Non fiction
The counsellor / Cormac McCarthy *
In falling snow / Mary-Rose MacColl
The yellow birds / Kevin Powers
The burial / Courtney Collins
Coal Creek / Alex Miller
Home / Toni Morrison
The Yalda Crossing / Noel Beddoe
The bear / Claire Cameron
The railwayman's wife / Ashley Hay
In my mother's hands / Biff Ward #
The strays / Emily Bitto
After darkness / Christine Piper
Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke
Nest / Inga Simpson
The silver moon / Bryce Courtenay
In certain circles / Elizabeth Harrower
Ryders Ridge / Charlotte Nash
The eye of the sheep / Sofie Laguna
Big little lies / Liane Moriarty
Golden boys / Sonya Hartnett
South of darkness / John Marsden
Nora Webster / Colm Toibin
Heat and light / Ellen Van Neerven #
A God in ruins / Kate Atkinson
A world of other people / Steven Carroll
# Indigenous content
Tips
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How to run a group is covered in this blog by Random House Books
(http://www.randomhouse.com.au/blog/how-to-start-a-book-club-2045.aspx )
Suggested rules for running a group can be found at LitLovers along with some
useful generic questions (http://www.litlovers.com/run-a-book-club)
Reading guides and reviews for individual titles can be located by searching the
Internet. Use keywords review or guide along with the books title and the
author's name.
Subscription databases such as the Literature Resource Center and Good
Reading, available through the State Library One Search catalogue are also
good sources of information.
Last updated: July 2016
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