Books Available for Book Discussions
The Library has ten to fifteen copies of each book on this list available for use by local book groups for loans of up to six weeks. In many cases, Skokie Public Library book discussion questions are also available for these books. Most books are trade paperbacks previously used for Library book discussions. If your book group is interested in borrowing multiple copies of any of the following titles for your discussion, please contact the Readers' Services Desk at 847.673.7774 by phone, or via email at askrs@skokielibrary.info.
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Ake: The Years of Childhood | Wole Soyinka |
| All the Names | Jose Saramago |
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| American Pastoral | Philip Roth |
| Angela's Ashes | Frank McCourt |
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| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner |
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| The Assistant | Bernard Malamud |
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| The Attack | Yasmina Khadra |
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| Atonement | Ian McEwan |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | Sijie Dai |
| Bastard out of Carolina | Dorothy Allison |
| Bee Season | Myla Goldberg |
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| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett |
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| Birds Without Wings | Louis de Bernieres |
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| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood |
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| The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| Bombay Time | Thrity Umrigar |
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| The Book of Ruth | Jane Hamilton |
| Bread and Wine | Ignazio Silone |
| Breath, Eyes, Memory | Edwidge Danticat |
| Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler |
| Brick Lane | Monica Ali |
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| The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
| Cat's Eye | Margaret Atwood |
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| The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertold Brecht |
| Charms for the Easy Life | Kaye Gibbons |
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| Cheri and The Last of Cheri | Collette |
| Cinnamon Gardens | Shyam Selvadurai |
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| City of Light | Lauren Belfer |
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| Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
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| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond |
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| The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty | Eudora Welty |
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| The Color of Water | James McBride |
| Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres |
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| The Country of the Pointed Firs | Sarah Orne Jewett |
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| Crossing California | Adam Langer |
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| Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
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| Dark Star Safari | Paul Theroux |
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| The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey |
| Death in Venice | Thomas Mann |
| The Death of Ivan Ilych | Leo Tolstoy |
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| The Devil in the White City | Eric Larson |
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| Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee |
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| Disobedience | Naomi Alderman |
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| Disobedience | Jane Hamilton |
| Don't Call It Night | Amos Oz |
| Dreamers of the Day | Mary Doria Russell |
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| East of Eden | John Steinbeck |
| Ellen Foster | Kaye Gibbons |
| Empire Falls | Richard Russo |
| Eva Luna | Isabel Allende |
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| Everything Bad is Good for You | Steven Johnson |
| The Facts of Life | Graham Joyce |
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| The Family Markowitz | Allegra Goodman |
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| The Feast of Love | Charles Baxter |
| The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy |
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| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| Fugitive Pieces | Anne Michaels |
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| Giants in the Earth | O.E. Rolvaag |
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| The Gilded Chamber | Rebecca Kohn |
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| The Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier |
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| A Good Man is Hard to Find | Flannery O'Connor |
| The Grass Dancer | Susan Power |
| The Great Escape | Kati Marton |
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| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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| Hanna's Daughters | Marianne Fredriksson |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | Carson McCullers |
| Heart of a Woman | Maya Angelou |
| The Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson |
| In the Heart of the Sea | Nathaniel Philbrick |
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| In the Lake of the Woods | Tim O'Brien |
| In the Time of the Butterflies | Julia Alvarez |
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| Independent People | Halldor Laxness |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Ironweed | William Kennedy |
| Journey from the Land of No | Roya Hakakian |
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| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
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| Ladies Coupé | Anita Nair |
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| Last Orders | Graham Swift |
| A Lesson before Dying | Ernest Gaines |
| The Lexus and the Olive Tree | Thomas L. Friedman |
| The Life Before Us | Romain Gary |
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| Life of Pi | Yann Martel |
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| Light in August | William Faulkner |
| The Little Disturbances of Man | Grace Paley |
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| The Little Friend | Donna Tartt |
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| Living Out Loud | Anna Quindlen |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Lost in Place | Mark Salzman |
| Love Medicine | Louise Erdrich |
| Madame Bovary | Gustav Flaubert |
| March | Geraldine Brooks |
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| Martin Dressler | Steven Millhauser |
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| The Matisse Stories | A.S. Byatt |
| Mazel | Rebecca Goldstein |
| Measure of a Man | Sidney Poitier |
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| The Memoirs of a Geisha | Arthur Golden |
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| The Metamorphosis & Other Stories | Franz Kafka |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | John Berendt |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
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| Montana 1948 | Larry Watkins |
| Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith | Gina B. Nahai |
| Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust | Fern Schumer Chapman |
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| My Antonia | Willa Cather |
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| The Namesake | Jhumpia Lahiri |
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| Never a City So Real | Alex Kotlowitz |
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| New York Burning | Jill Lepore |
| Nickel and Dimed | Barbara Ehrenreich |
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| No Telephone to Heaven | Michelle Cliff |
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| The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith |
| One Thousand White Women | Jim Fergus |
| Open Secrets | Alice Munroe |
| The Optimist's Daughter | Eudora Welty |
| Ordinary Heroes | Scott Turow |
| The Painted Drum | Louise Erdrich |
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| Palace Walk | Naguib Mahfouz |
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| The Palestine Affair | Jonathan Wilson |
| Patty Jane's House of Curl | Lorna Landvik |
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| Peace Like a River | Leif Enger |
| People of the Book | Geraldine Brooks |
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| Persuasion | Jane Austen |
| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce |
| The Power and the Glory | Graham Greene |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen |
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| The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | Muriel Spark |
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| The Puttermesser Papers | Cynthia Ozick |
| The Rapture Of Canaan | Sheri Reynolds |
| The Reader | Bernard Schlink |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
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| A Recipe for Bees | Gail Anderson-Dargatz |
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| Red Azalea | Anchee Min |
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| Remembering Babylon | David Malouf |
| The Romance Reader | Pearl Abraham |
| The Samurai’s Garden | Gail Tsukiyama |
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| Second-Class Citizen | Buchi Emecheta |
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| The Secret Life of Bees | Sue Monk Kidd |
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| The Silent Cry | Kenzaburo Oe |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Sleeping at the Starlight Motel | Bailey White |
| Small Wonder | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Lisa See |
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| Snow in August | Pete Hamill |
| Songs in Ordinary Time | Mary McGarry Morris |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner |
| Spring Snow | Yukio Mishima |
| The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields |
| Straight Man | Richard Russo |
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| Suite Francaise | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Sula | Toni Morrison |
| The Temple of the Golden Pavilion | Yukio Mishima |
| Three Junes | Julia Glass |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolfe |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
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| The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Milan Kundera |
| A Virtuous Woman | Kaye Gibbons |
| Wait Till Next Year | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Waiting | Ha Jin |
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| The Waiting Years | Fumiko Enchi |
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| Ward Number Six and Other Stories | Anton Chekhov |
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| Washington Square | Henry James |
| Water for Elephants | Sara Gruen |
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| Wide Sargasso Sea | Jean Rhys |
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| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| Year of Wonders | Geraldine Brooks |
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| A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | Michael Dorris |
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| The Zookeeper's Wife | Diane Ackerman |
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