Book club sets
A number of book club sets are available for loan to established book club groups through Queensland public libraries. This service is currently available to Queensland public libraries. Book club coordinators should contact their local library and register their groups to access these sets, and for further information regarding services to book clubs.
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- Alias Grace / Margaret Atwood
- Almost French / Sarah Turnbull
- Girl with a pearl earring / Tracy Chevalier
- A fortunate life / A.B. Facey
- The pact / Jodi Picoult
- The God of small things / Arundhati Roy
- Ice station / Matthew Riley
- On the road / Jack Kerouac
- Schindler's ark / Thomas Keneally
- The secret history / Donna Tart
- Remembering Babylon / David Malouf
- The kite runner / Khaled Hosseini
- Notes from a small island / Bill Bryson
- The lovely bones / Alice Sebold
- Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee
- The shipping news / E. Annie Proulx
- The Sunday philosophy club / Alexander McCall Smith
- A long, long way / Sebastian Barry
- Thompson gunner / Nick Earls
- Mao's last dancer / Li Cunxin
- A short history of tractors in Ukrainian / Marina Lewycka
- Eucalyptus / Murray Bail
- The salt of broken tears / Michael Meehan
- The hospital by the river / Catherine Hamlin
- An equal music / Vikram Seth
- March / Geraldine Brooks
- The other Boleyn girl / Philippa Gregory
- The English patient / Michael Ondaatje
- Journey to the stone country / Alex Miller
- The time traveler's wife / Audrey Niffenegger
- Dirt music / Tim Winton
- Daughter of fortune / Isabel Allende
- The alchemist / Paulo Coelho
- Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden
- Desert flower / Waris Dirie
- Cold mountain / Charles Frazier
- True history of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
- The Harmony Silk Factory / Tash Aw
- Purple hibiscus / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon
- Nice try / Shane Moloney
- Five quarters of the orange / Joanne Harris
- Life of Pi / Yann Martel
- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee
- Perfume : the story of a murder / Patrick Suskind
- Idoru / William Gibson
- The house of the spirits / Isabel Allende
- In cold blood / Truman Capote
- Affection / Ian Townsend
- The kingdom where nobody dies / Kimberley Starr
- The unknown terrorist / Richard Flanagan
- The rouseabout / Rachael Treasure
- Time we have taken / Steven Carroll
- The floating island / Anna Ralph
- Digging to America / Anne Tyler
- Corner of your eye / Kate Lyons
- Rachel's holiday / Marian Keyes
- The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai
- The book thief / Markus Zusak
- The great fire / Shirley Hazzard
- Water for elephants / Sara Gruen
- Salmon fishing in the Yemen / Paul Torday
- Mister Pip / Lloyd Jones
- The namesake / Jhumpa Lahiri
- The tenderness of wolves / Stef Penney
- The night ferry / Michael Robotham
- Hit / Tara Moss
- A long way down / Nick Hornby
- Oracle night / Paul Auster
- The other side of you / Sally Vickers
- The upside of down / Thomas Homer-Dixon
- The bridge of San Luis Rey / Thornton Wilder
- East of Eden / John Steinbeck
- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Howards End / E.M. Forster
- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte
- Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey
- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde
- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen
- The shiralee / D'Arcy Niland
- A spy in the house of love / Anais Nin
- Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe
- To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
- Women in love / D.H. Lawrence
- Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte
- Sunset in St Tropez / Danielle Steel
- Double homicide / Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
- Jack Higgins snapshot / Jack Higgins
- Robin Cook snapshot / Robin Cook
- Bleachers / John Grisham
- Ransom / Danielle Steel
- Kitchen privileges : a memoir / Mary Higgins Clark
- Terry Pratchett snapshot / Terry Pratchett
- The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown
- Elliot Roosevelt snapshot / Elliot Roosevelt
- Twisted / Jonathan Kellerman
- The beach / Alex Garland
- Breakfast at Tiffany's / Truman Capote
- The chimney sweeper's boy / Barbara Vine
- Kingdom of fear / Hunter S. Thompson
- The language instinct / Steven Pinker
- Of mice and men / John Steinbeck
- Rabbit, run / John Updike
- South : the Endurance expodition / Ernest Shackleton
- A year in Provence / Peter Mayle
- The consolations of philosophy / Alain De Botton
- The well / Elizabeth Jolley
- Unpolished gem / Alice Pung
- Boycott / Lisa Forrest
- If this is a man : and, The truce / Primo Levy
- Child 44 / Tom Rob Smith
- American journeys / Don Watson
- The brutal art / Jesse Kellerman
- Monkey grip / Helen Garner
- Just me / Sheila Hancock
- The reader / Bernhard Schlink
- The winter vault / Anne Michaels
- Sea of poppies / Amitave Ghosh
- The white tiger / Aravind Adiga
- The zookeeper's war / Steven Conte
- Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
- Norwegian wood / Haruki Murakami
- The highest tide / Jim Lynch
- Old filth / Jane Gardam
- Skin and bone / Kathryn Fox
- Trip of a lifetime / Liz Byrski
- Addition / Toni Jordon
- The household guide to dying / Debra Adelaide
Reading guides and reviews for individual titles can be located by searching the web using a search tool and using the keywords review or guide along with the books title and the author's name.
Tips
- Suggested rules for running a group can be found at Book Clubs and interactive groups
- Reading guides and reviews for individual titles can be located by searching the Internet and subscription databases such as the Literature Resource Center and Good Reading.
More information
For general enquiries:
- Ask at your local Queensland public library
- Other libraries [new window]
Last updated: 3rd September 2009
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