To help you make book groups easy peasy, the Hoover Public Library provides fiction book kits!
Each kit contains: 10 or more copies of the title, author biography, reviews of the book, discussion questions and other pertinent information.
Each kit checks out to one patron for six weeks.
Kits may be reserved up to one year in advance; please call 444-7820 to place a reservation.
Ask at the Fiction Desk for an annotated list of book kits for your selection, or visit
www.hooverlibrary.org/services/book-club-kits
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (classic)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (classic)
The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Atonement by Ian McEwan (movie included)
The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie Benjamin
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Beginner’s Goodbye by Anne Tyler
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks (movie included)
Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James
The Elephant Keeper by Christopher Nicholson
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
The Help by Kathryn Stockett (movie included)
Help for the Haunted by John Searles
The History of Love by Nicola Krauss
Home to Harmony by Philip Gulley
The Hours by Michael Cunningham (movie included)
The House Girl by Tara Conklin
Book Titles Included in Fiction Book Kits:
Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (movie included)
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
Life of Pi by Yan Martel
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris
March by Geraldine Brooks (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (African-American)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (classic)
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English by Natasha Solomans
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (movie included)
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Rosie Project Graeme Simsion
A Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Shack by William P. Young (Inspirational)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Shoemaker’s Wife by Adriana Trigiani
Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilber
Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (African-American)
Someone Else’s Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
Stella Bain by Anita Shreve
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Life with Bread Crumbs by Anna Quindlen
The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by C. Alan Bradley
Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Time Traveler’ Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (movie included)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (classic)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
The Widower’s Tale by Julia Glass
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (classic)
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
