The following fiction and non-fiction books are available for book discussion groups in sets of multiple copies. The book sets are available for pick up by local librarians, reading groups, individual patrons and their families.
If you are a librarian or an individual borrower picking up a book set in person on behalf of a reading group, there is no fee, and you may reserve one or two titles in advance. Please specify the number of copies needed and the discussion date, so that we can determine the appropriate pick up and due dates. Please be aware that if a book set is reserved for use by the South Burlington Community Library, or on loan to another user, the books may not be available at a particular time for use by your group.
All requests for book sets to be delivered from the South Burlington Community Library to another library through the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) process must be submitted by a librarian on behalf of their patron. Individual borrowers should inquire at their home library about obtaining this service. If you are requesting a book through ILL, please reserve it 2 months or more in advance of when you need to distribute it. Also, specify your discussion date so that we can send the book two weeks or more in advance, and give you a due date which is 2 weeks after your meeting. When you request a book set, we will inform you if another group has already reserved it for that time period. Reserves are limited to two sets at a time.
Whether borrowing in person or through ILL, you will be charged a replacement fee for any lost or damaged copies, and this must be paid before your Library or reading group can borrow another set of books.
Book Groups, Take Note …When you select a title from the Library’s list of book sets available on loan to your reading club, you can directly link to an online study guide or background information about the book. Just click on any of the titles below. |
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Book Title & Author | Number of Copies |
84, Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff | 16 |
All That I Have, Castle Freeman | 13 |
All That's Solid Melts into Air, Darragh McKeon | 12 |
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr | 11 |
All the Names, Jose Saramago | 12 |
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy | 15 |
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | 12 |
The Awakening, Kate Chopin | 13 |
The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny | 16 |
A Beautiful Place to Die, Malla Nunn | 15 |
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett | 19 |
Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia |
11 |
The Boston Girl, Anita Diamant | 13 |
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin |
14 |
The Call, Yannick Murphy | 17 |
The Circle, Dave Eggers | 13 |
The City of Your Final Destination, Peter Cameron | 12 |
The Curiosity, Stephen Kiernan | 13 |
The Devotion of Suspect X, Keigo Higashino | 15 |
The Dinner, Herman Koch | 12 |
The Dirty Life, Kristin Kimball | 15 |
Displacement: A Travelogue, Lucy Knisley |
10 |
Drama High, Michael Sokolove | 12 |
The Eight, Katherine Neville | 15 |
The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery | 16 |
Emily, Alone, Stewart O'Nan | 16 |
Emma, Jane Austen | 10 |
The English Girl, Daniel Silva | 14 |
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy | 12 |
First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung | 32 |
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver | 15 |
Girl at War, Sara Novic |
10 |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows |
15 |
Half Broke Horses, Jeannette Walls | 15 |
Hand to Mouth : living in bootstrap America, Linda Tirado | 10 |
The High Divide, Lin Enger |
12 |
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez | 17 |
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid | 10 |
The Lost Painting, Jonathan Harr | 16 |
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert | 5 |
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen | 12 |
The Martian, Andy Weir |
13 |
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante |
14 |
Neverhome, Laird Hunt | 13 |
Night Film, Marisha Pessl | 10 |
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell | 12 |
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman | 12 |
Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman | 10 |
Our Town, Thornton Wilder | 12 |
The Painted Veil, W.S. Maugham | 15 |
Persuasion, Jane Austen | 12 |
The Poacher's Son, Paul Doiron | 12 |
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen | 7 |
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline | 10 |
Room, Emma Donoghue | 11 |
A Room with a View, E.M. Forster | 18 |
The Samurai's Garden, Gail Tsukiyama | 14 |
Sandrine's Case, Thomas Cook | 12 |
Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman | 99 |
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey | 16 |
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson | 18 |
Still Life with Breadcrumbs, Anna Quindlen | 15 |
The Submission, Amy Waldman | 13 |
Summer, Edith Wharton | 15 |
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare | 5 |
Tell the Wolves I’m Home, Carol Rifka Brunt | 10 |
Tinkers, Paul Harding | 13 |
The Unquiet Dead, Ausma Zehanat Khan |
12 |
The View from Penthouse B, Elinor Lipman | 12 |
Waiting, Ha Jin | 12 |
We Were Liars, E. Lockhart | 8 |
Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple | 18 |
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed |
13 |
The Wives of Los Alamos, TaraShea Nesbit | 12 |
The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers | 12 |