Everything you need for your own book club is provided in our popular Book Club in a Bag. Each packaged set has eight books, including large print and audio books when available. Book reviews, information about the author, related websites, and discussion questions are also provided.

To reserve your Book Club in a Bag, please contact the Reference Department in person, by phone at 610-446-3082, extension 201, or by email at

Book Club in a Bag Titles:

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• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• Away - Amy Bloom
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua  NEW!
• Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie King
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• The Cookbook Collector - Allegra Goodman
• Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese  NEW!
• The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
• The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
• The Double Bind – Chris Bohjalian
• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Faith - Jennifer Haigh  NEW!
• First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents - Bonnie Angelo
• The Flower Master - Sujata Massey
• Freedom - Jonathon Franzen  NEW!
• The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
• Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
• The Help - Kathryn Stockett
• Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage - Diane Middlebrook
• The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
• The Hundred Secret Senses - Amy Tan
• The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
• I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
• In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
• The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Dessai
• The Irresistible Henry House - Lisa Grunwald
• Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez
• The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood
• The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh  NEW!
• Lark and Termite  - Jayne Ann Phillips
• Little Heathens - Mildred Armstrong Kalish
• Look Me in the Eye - John Elder Robinson
• The Lost Painting - Jonathon Harr
• Loving Frank - Nancy Horan
• March - Geraldine Brooks
• Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War- Nathaniel Philbrick
• The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
• Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen
• Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides 
• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan - Piers Dudgeon
• No Ordinary Time - Doris Kearns Goodwin  NEW!
• Outliers: the Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
• Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
• Plain Truth - Jodi Piccoult
• The Reading Promise - Alice Ozma
• Room - Emma Donoghue  NEW!
• Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay  NEW!
• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt - Beth Hoffman
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
• The Soloist - Steve Lopez
• The Space Between Us - Thrity Umrigar
• Tender at the Bone - Ruth Reichl
• Testimony - Anita Shreve
• Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
• Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
• The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
• Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages - Katie Roiphe
• Waiting for Snow in Havana - Carlos Eire
• The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson  NEW!
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• What is the What - Dave Eggers
• While My Sister Sleeps - Barbara Delinsky
• Wicked - Gregory Maguire
• The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
• Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
• Zookeeper's Wife – Diane Ackerman

List as of 11/30/2011

For more Book Club in a Bag titles, view the list on the county's webpage. 

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