Books to Go for Book Groups

Funded by Annual Fund and the Kettering Foundation
Be the star at your next book group meeting! Pick up a "Books to Go" bag. Inside you'll find 10 copies of a book, biographical information about the author, questions to get your group started and lots of other fascinating stuff. Keep it for two months, then return it and take another one. You can place a hold on a bag that is checked out.
If only the rest of your life were this organized!

Books Available in the
"Books to Go" Bags

Listed by Title and by Bag Number

By Title:

All Over But the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg: BAG 16

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon: BAG 11

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik: BAG 49

Arranged Marriage
by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni: BAG 27

Atonement
by Ian McEwan: BAG 8

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai: BAG 1

Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett: BAG 19

Big Stone Gap
by Adriana Trigiani: BAG 48

The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan: BAG 5

Burning Marguerite
by Elizabeth Innes-Brown: BAG 63

Caramelo
by Sandra Cisnero: BAG 30

Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier: BAG 6

By Bag Number:

BAG 1: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Sijie Dai

BAG 2: Desirable Daughters
by Bharati Mukherjee

BAG 3: My Antonia
by Willa Cather

BAG 4: True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey

BAG 5: The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan

BAG 6: Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier

BAG 7: Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

BAG 8: Atonement
by Ian McEwan

BAG 9: Empire Falls
by Richard Russo

BAG 10: Waiting
by Ha Jin

BAG 11: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon

BAG 12: Fences
by August Wilson

BAG13: Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn

BAG 14: Crow Lake
by Mary Lawson

BAG 15: Three Junes
by Julia Glass

BAG 16: All Over But the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg

BAG17: Life of Pi
by Yann Martel

BAG 18: Unless
by Carol Shields

BAG 19: Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett

BAG 20: The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd

BAG 21: A Year by the Sea
by Joan Anderson

BAG 22: A Girl Named Zippy
by Haven Kimmel

BAG 23: The Spirit Catches You and
You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

BAG 24: Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger

BAG 25: The Floating Brothel
by Sian Rees

BAG 26: House of Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus

Bag 27: Arranged Marriage
by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni

BAG 28: Nine Parts of Desire
by Geraldine Brooks

BAG 29: The Little Friend
by Donna Tartt

BAG 30: Caramelo
by Sandra Cisnero

BAG 31: The Samurai's Garden
by Gail Tsukiyama

BAG 32: A Moon for the Misbegotten.
by Eugene O'Neill

BAG 33: Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder

BAG 34: Proof
by David Auburn

BAG 35: The Map of Love
by Ahdaf Soueif

BAG 36: Don't Let's Go the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller

BAG 37: Reading Lolita in Tehran
by Azar Nafisi

BAG 38: Second Glance
by Jodi Picoult

BAG 39: Ladder of Years
by Anne Tyler

BAG 40: Getting Mother's Body Back
by Suzan-Lori Parks

BAG 41: Crescent
by Diana Abu-Jaberr

BAG 42: Persuasion
by Jane Austen

BAG 43: Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

BAG 44: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
by Mark Haddon

BAG 45: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
by Karen Armstrong

BAG 46: Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri

BAG 47: Small Island
by Andrea Levy

BAG 48: Big Stone Gap
by Adriana Trigiani

BAG 49: Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons
by Lorna Landvik

BAG 50: Little Children
by Tom Perrotta

BAG 51: Prep
by Curtis Sittenfeld

BAG 52: This Day in the Life: Diaries
from Women Across America
by J. B. Cole, R. Joffrey and B.K. Rakhra

BAG 53: Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

BAG 54: A Walk in the Woods
by Bill Bryson

BAG 55: Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls

BAG 56: Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris

BAG 57: The Road
by Cormac McCarthy

BAG 58: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See

BAG 59: The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett

BAG 60: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time.
by Greg Mortenson

BAG 61: Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

BAG 62: Harmony Silk Factory
by Tash Aw

BAG 63: Burning Marguerite
by Elizabeth Innes-Brown

BAG 64: THIS I BELIEVE: THE PERSONAL PHILOSOPHIES OF REMARKABLE MEN AND WOMEN.
Edited by Jay Allison.

updated 4/08

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