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

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Book Club in a Bag Titles

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• The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker
• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats - Jan-Philipp Sendker
• Atonement - Ian McEwan
• Away - Amy Bloom
• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Amy Chua
• Beekeeper's Apprentice - Laurie King
• The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
• The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
• The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka 2013 One Book, One Philadelphia selection
• The Cookbook Collector - Allegra Goodman
• Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work - Edwidge Danticat   2012 One Book, One Philadelphia selection
• Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
• The Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey
• Defending Jacob - William Landay
• The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
• The Double Bind – Chris Bohjalian
• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Faith - Jennifer Haigh
• Fifty Shades of Grey - E L James 
• First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents - Bonnie Angelo
• Freedom - Jonathan Franzen  
• The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
• Good Morning, Beautiful Business - Judy Wicks (owner of the White Dog Cafe)  Coming soon!
• 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
• The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai
• Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes  
• The Irresistible Henry House - Lisa Grunwald
• Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez
• The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood
• The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
• Lark and Termite  - Jayne Anne Phillips
• Little Children - Tom Perrotta
• Little Heathens - Mildred Armstrong Kalish
• Look Me in the Eye - John Elder Robison
• The Lost Painting - Jonathan 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 
• Midnight Rising - Tony Horwitz 
• Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan 
• The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
• Neverland: J.M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan - Piers Dudgeon
• The Newlyweds - Nell Freudenberger  
• No Ordinary Time - Doris Kearns Goodwin 
• Outliers: the Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• Peace Like a River - Leif Enger
• Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
• Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain 
• The Reading Promise - Alice Ozma
• Room - Emma Donoghue
• The Rent Collector - Camron Wright  
• The Round House - Louise Erdrich
• Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay  
• 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
• Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
• Summerland - Elin Hilderbrand 
• 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
• Unbroken : A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - Laura Hillenbrand  
• Waiting for Snow in Havana - Carlos Eire
• The Wandering Falcon - Jamil Ahmad 
• The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson 
• Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver 
• What is the What - Dave Eggers
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette? - Maria Semple 
• While My Sister Sleeps - Barbara Delinsky
• Wicked - Gregory Maguire
• The Widow of the South - Robert Hicks
• The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
• Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
• The Zookeeper's Wife – Diane Ackerman

List as of 5/8/2013

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