Book Club Kits
Scenic Regional Library has more than 70 book club kits available to book discussion groups for checkout.
A group does not need to meet at the library to be able to checkout a book club kit.
Each kit contains:
- ten (10) copies of the title
- discussion questions for the book
- large print and audio books can be included in a book kit upon request, if available
Book club kits can be checked out for 8 weeks and cannot be renewed.
Click on the titles below for more information, such as book reviews and plot summaries.
Contact Paul Schroeder at 636-583-0652, ext. 1008 or pschroeder@scenicregional.org to request a title from the Book Club Collection.
Scenic Regional Library patrons may also check out book club kits from other Missouri Evergreen Consortium member libraries. To find kits available at these libraries, search the library catalog for the following:
- Carrollton Public Library Book Club Kits
- Jefferson County Book Club Kits
- Poplar Bluff Bookclub Kits
- SJPL Book Club
NON-FICTION TITLES
Abagnale, Frank W. Catch Me If You Can
Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeepers Wife: A War Story
Alexander, Eben. Proof of Heaven
Algeo, Matthew. Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure
Brunt, Douglas The Mysterious case of Rudolf Diesel
Cahalan, Susannah. Brain on Fire, My Month of Madness
Cain, Susan. Quiet
Christie, Judy and Wingate, Lisa. Before and After, The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society
DeFede, Jim. The Day the World Came to Town
Diamond, Jason. The Sprawl
Fainer, Ben. Silent for Sixty Years
Foer, Esther Safran. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here
Goldbach, Eliese Colette. Rust: a Memoir of Steel and Grit
Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon, the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Griesbach, Michael The innocent killer: a true story of a wrongful conviction and its astonishing aftermath
Gulley, Philip I Love You, Miss Huddleston, and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood
Hall, Ron. Same Kind of Different as Me
Higgs, Liz Curtis. The Women of Easter
Hillenbrand, Laura. Unbroken : a World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh
Hotchner, A.E. The Boyhood Memoir of A. E. Hotchner
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuk. Farewell to Manzanar
Howerton, Phillip. Gods of Four Mile Creek
Jaku, Eddie. The Happiest Man on Earth
Karr, Mary. The Liars’ Club : A Memoir
Kiernan, Denise. The Girls of Atomic City : The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Landdeck, Katherine Sharp. The Women with Silver Wings
Larson, Erik. Dead Wake : The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Lawson, Jenny. Furiously Happy
Marks, Ken. Molly Brown from Hannibal, Missouri : her life in the Gilded Age
McBride, James. The Color of Water, a Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
Moore, Kate. The Woman They Could Not Silence
Morris, Mary. All the Way to the Tigers
Murdoch, Sierra Crane. Yellow Bird
Murphy, Colleen. Murphys Don’t Quit
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis
Sixsmith, Martin. Philomena: a mother, her son, and a fifty-year search
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Toth, Jennifer. The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels beneath New York City
Vance, J.D. Hillbilly Elegy
Westover, Tara. Educated
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Worsley, Lucy. The Art of the English Murder
FICTION TITLES
Adams, Taylor. The Last Word
Albom, Mitch. For One More Day
Albom, Mitch. The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Alderson, Sarah. The Stalker
Allen, Sarah Addison. Garden Spells
Allen, Sarah Addison. Lost Lake
Anderson, Michelle Collins. The Flower Sisters
Arikawa, Hiro. The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale
Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting
Badani, Sejal. The Storyteller’s Secret
Binchy, Maeve. A Week in Winter
Blume, Judy. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Bohjalian, Chris. Before you know kindness : a novel
Boyne, John. All the Broken Places
Bracht, Mary Lynn. White Chrysanthemum
Bradley, Alan. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Brennert, Alan. Moloka’I
Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights
Burnet, Graeme Macrae. His Bloody Project
Cash, Wiley. The Last Ballad
Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Clarke, Susanna. Piranesi
Cleave, Chris. Little Bee
Cobbs, Elizabeth. The Hamilton Affair: A Novel
Conklin, Tara. The House Girl: A Novel
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Davis, Barbara. The Keeper of Happy Endings
Dempsey, Diana. The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
Diffenbaugh, Vanessa. The Language of Flowers
DuPrau, Jeanne. The City of Ember
Ellis, David. Look Closer
Feeney, Alice. Rock Paper Scissors
Flagg, Fannie. A Redbird Christmas
Flynn, Gillian. Dark Places
Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet : a novel
Garvin, Eileen. The Music of Bees
Genova, Lisa. Still Alice : a novel
Graham, Genevieve. The Forgotten Home Child
Green, John. Turtles All the Way Down
Grissom, Kathleen. The Kitchen House
Guzeman, Tracy. The Gravity of Birds
Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Hadlow, Janice. The Other Bennet Sister
Haig, Matt. The Midnight Library
Hannah, Kristin. The Four Winds
Hannah, Kristin. The Great Alone
Hannah, Kristin. Night Road
Hannah, Kristin. The Nightingale
Harrow, Alix E. The Once and Future Witches
Haruf, Kent. Benediction
Hawkins, Paula. The Girl on the Train
Hazelwood, Ann Watkins. For the Love of Quilts
Hegi, Ursula. Stones from the River
Henry, Patti Callahan. The Secret Book of Flora Lea
Hiasson, Carl. Tourist Season
Hoffman, Alice. The Rules of Magic
Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank : a novel
Hyde, Catherine Ryan. Don’t Let Me Go
Hyde, J. L. Delta County
Jacobs, Kate. The Friday Night Knitting Club
Jonasson, Jonas. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Joshi, Alki The Henna Artist
Karon, Jan. At Home in Mitford
Kelly, Martha Hall. Lilac Girls
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Invention of Wings
Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees
King, Stephen. Later
Kline, Christina Baker. Orphan Train
Klune, T. J. The House in the Cerulean Sea
Kokoris, Jim. The Rich Part of Life
Korman, Gordon. Restart
Krueger, William Kent. Ordinary Grace
Kwok, Jean. Girl in Translation
Labuskes, Brianna. The Librarian of Burned Books
Latham, Jennifer. Dreamland Burning
Lawler, Liz. Don’t Wake Up
Lee, Harper. Go Set a Watchman
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
Lehane, Dennis. Live by Night
Mandel, Emily St. John. The Glass Hotel
Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven
McLain, Paula. Circling the Sun
McLain, Paula. The Paris Wife : a novel
Miller, Madeline. The Song of Achilles
Modglin, Kiersten. A Quiet Retreat
Modglin, Kiersten. A Quiet Retreat
Molnar, Marta. The Secret Life of Sunflowers
Moore, Michele. The Cigar Factory: a Novel of Charleston
Morelli, Laura. The Night Portrait
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. Mexican Gothic
Moriarty, Laura. The Chaperone
Moriarty, Liane. What Alice Forgot
Morris, Heather. The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Moyes, Jojo. After You
Moyes, Jojo. Me Before You
O’Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried
O’Farrell, Maggie. Hamnet
Olsen, Gregg. Beneath Her Skin
Otsuka, Julie. When the Emperor Was Divine
Owens, Delia. Where the Crawdads Sing
Palmer, D. J. My Wife Is Missing
Paris, B.A. The Breakdown
Patchett, Ann. Tom Lake
Penner, Sarah. The Lost Apothecary
Pickhart, Kalani. I Will Die in a Foreign Land
Picoult, Jodi. Nineteen Minutes
Picoult, Jodi. Small Great Things
Pratchett, Terry. A Stroke of the Pen
Quinn, Kate. The Alice Network
Reay, Katherine. The Bronte Plot
Reay, Katherine. Lizzy & Jane
Richardson, Kim Michele. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Richardson, Kim Michele. The Book Woman’s Daughter
Rose, Jeneva. The Perfect Marriage
Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow
Rutledge, Lynda. West with Giraffes
Semple, Maria. Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray
Shafak, Elif. The Forty Rules of Love
Shapiro, Barbara. The Art Forger
Sheets, Vonda Wilson. Absolution : a Bald Knobber Saga
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein
Simsion, Graeme C. The Rosie Project
Solomon, Anna. The Book of V.
Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain
Stockett, Kathryn. The Help
Taylor, Dennis E. We Are Legion
Twain, Mark Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Vanderah, Glendy Where the Forest Meets the Stars
Walker, Boo. Red Mountain
Ware, Ruth. The Woman in Cabin 10
Williams, Pip. The Dictionary of Lost Words
Willingham, Stacy. All the Dangerous Things
Wiseman, Ellen Marie. The Plum Tree
Wood, Monica. The One-in-a-Million Boy
Woods, Evie. The Lost Bookshop
Wright, Camron. The Orphan Keeper
