The Friends of the Guilford Free Library proudly announce a new initiative, the Books for Book Clubs Collection. Books may be borrowed individually, or in multiples—for your book club or for reading on your own! We welcome suggestions to grow the collection. Books must be in-print and available in paperback.
Please inquire at the reference desk.
Book Club Books available: Click here to be redirected to the online catalog
Here is a list of just some of the titles available for your Book Club. Each title has 6-8 copies (not a complete list).
Fiction
Americanhah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Before the Fall by Hawley
Before We Were Yours by Wingate
Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Big Little Lies by Liane Morarity
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Bookseller by Swanson
Britt-Marie Was Here by Backman
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Did you ever have a family? by Bill Clegg
Euphoria by Lily King
Everything I Never Told You by Ng
Forgetting Time by Guskin
Gentleman in Moscow by Towles
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
God in Ruins by Atkinson
Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Homegoing by Gyasi
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
In other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
Light between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland
Little Fires Everywhere by Ng
Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Maiden Flight by Haskell
Martian by Andy Weir
Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
My Grandmother asked me to tell you She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain
News of the World by Jiles
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
Rules of Civility by Towles
Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell
Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
Sympathizer by Nguyen
Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Traitor’s Wife by Allison Pataki
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
We Never Asked For Wings by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Wonder by Donoghue
Graphic/Non-Fiction
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Non-Fiction
Against Empathy by Bloom
Boys in the Boat by Brown
Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon
Cleopatra by Schiff
Destiny Disrupted by Ansary
Evicted by Desmond
Girls of Atomic City by Kiernan
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Destiny Disrupted by Mir Tamim Ansary
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
Invention of Nature by Wulf
Invisible History of the Human Race by Christine Kenneally
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
Our Kids, the American Dream in Crisis by Putnam
Radium Girls by Moore
Seven brief lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Silk Roads by Frankopan
SPQR by Beard
This I believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women by Jay Allison
Undoing Project by Lewis
