Book and Reading Discussion Collection
The Book and Reading Discussion Collection (formerly known as the Brown Dot collection) contains copies of books designed for use by book groups. (Check our catalog for a complete list of library holdings.) If you would like a set of books set aside for your group, please contact the Information Desk. Also, Resource guides, such as book discussion questions, author information and articles relating to the book are available for photocopying for many of these titles. Please inquire at the Information Desk as well. (Last updated: November 15, 2006)Book and Reading Discussion Collection list (PDF) 
| Author | Title | # of copies |
| Albee, Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf: a play | 19 |
| Albom, Mitch | Las cinco personas que encontrar s en el cielo | 5 |
| Alexander, Robert | The kitchen boy | 18 |
| Alexie, Sherman | Reservation Blues | 19 |
| Allende, Isabel | Daughter of fortune: a novel | 16 |
| Allende, Isabel | My invented country | 20 |
| Allende, Isabel | Paula | 15 |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia girls lost their accents | 17 |
| Alvarez, Julia | In the time of the butterflies: a novel | 9 |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless me, Ultima | 10 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace | 14 |
| Atwood, Margaret | The blind assassin | 11 |
| Bahr, Howard | The year of jubilo: a novel of the Civil War | 20 |
| Bayley, John | Elegy for Iris | 20 |
| Berendt, John | Midnight in the garden of the good and evil | 12 |
| Bernardo, Jos, RaY1 | Las sabias mujeres de La Habana | 8 |
| Bloom, Amy | Love invents us | 15 |
| Beowulf: a new verse translation | 20 | |
| Boylan, James | Getting in: a novel | 14 |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | 20 |
| Bragg, Rick | All over but the shoutin' | 13 |
| Brave Bird, Mary | Lakota woman | 14 |
| Brookner, Anita | Dolly | 13 |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March | 20 |
| Bryson, Bill | In a sunburned country | 20 |
| Byatt, A.S. | The Matisse stories | 18 |
| Campbell, Helen | Turnip blues | 17 |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | 19 |
| Chavez, Denise | Face of an angel | 17 |
| Chessman, Harriett Scott | Lydia Cassatt reading the morning paper | 20 |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a pearl earring | 8 |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The lady and the unicorn | 20 |
| Childress, Mark | Crazy in Alabama | 11 |
| Cohan, Tony | On Mexican time | 20 |
| Collins, Billy | Sailing alone around the room: new and selected poems | 20 |
| Conway, Jill K. | The road from Coorain | 16 |
| Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the little Chineses seamstress | 18 |
| Dallas, Sandra | The Chili Queen | 18 |
| Dallas, Sandra | The diary of Mattie Spenser | 18 |
| De BerniSres, Louis | Corelli's mandolin | 13 |
| De Rosa, Tina | Paper fish | 18 |
| Deane, Seamus | Reading in the dark | 17 |
| Delany, Sarah Louise | Having our say: the Delany sisters' first 100 years | 11 |
| Denevi, Marco | Rosaura a las diez | 9 |
| Diamant, Anita | The red tent | 9 |
| Dickens, Charles | A tale of two cities | 20 |
| Divakaruni, Chitra | The mistress of spices | 16 |
| Doerr, Harriet | Consider this, senora | 10 |
| Dorris, Michael | A yellow raft in blue water | 7 |
| Dorris, Michael | The broken cord | 9 |
| Doyle, Roddy | Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha | 15 |
| Dubus, Andre | House of sand and fog | 9 |
| Dunant, Sarah | Birth of Venus | 20 |
| Edgerton, Clyde | Killer diller: a novel | 14 |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and dimed | 20 |
| Eighner, Lars | Travels with Lizbeth | 12 |
| Eliot, Eve | Insatiable: the compelling story of four teens, food, and its power | 16 |
| Eliot, Eve | Ravenous: the stirring tale of teen love, loss, and courage | 14 |
| Enger, Leif | Peace like a river | 17 |
| Ephron, Amy | A cup of tea: a novel of 1917 | 19 |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love medicine: new and expanded version | 20 |
| Erdrich, Louise | Master butchers singing club | 20 |
| Ernaux, Annie | A man's place | 11 |
| Evans, Richard Paul | A Perfect Day | 20 |
| Faulks, Sebastian | Birdsong | 11 |
| Feiler, Bruce S. | Learning to bow: inside the heart of Japan | 16 |
| Feiler, Bruce S. | Walking the bible | 20 |
| Fergus, Jim | One thousand white women: the journals of May Dodd | 18 |
| Fesperman, Dan | Lie in the dark | 17 |
| Fisher, M. F. K. | Two towns in Provence | 18 |
| Fitzgerald, F. Scott | The great Gatsby | 19 |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Everything is illuminated: a novel | 20 |
| Ford, Richard | Women with men: three stories | 19 |
| Forster, E.M. | A passage to India | 9 |
| Forster, Margaret | Lady's maid | 10 |
| Frazier, Charles | Cold mountain | 9 |
| Friedan, Betty | The fountain of age | 8 |
| Fuller, Alexandra | Don't let's go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood | 20 |
| Gallagher, Dorothy | How I came into my inheritance: and other true stories | 17 |
| Garcia Marquez, Gabriel | Love in the time of cholera | 9 |
| Garcza, Cristina | Dreaming in Cuban | 19 |
| Gibbons, Kaye | Ellen Foster: a novel | 14 |
| Gibbons, Kaye | On the occasion of my last afternoon | 19 |
| Glass, Julia | Three Junes | 19 |
| Gloss, Molly | The jump-off creek | 20 |
| Godwin, Gail | Evensong | 15 |
| Goldberg, Myla | Bee season: a novel | 12 |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Wait till next year: a memoir | 15 |
| Gordimer, Nadine | My son's story | 12 |
| Gordimer, Nadine | The Pickup | 20 |
| Guterson, David | Snow falling on cedars | 5 |
| Haddon, Mark | The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | 14 |
| Hamilton, Jane | A map of the world | 8 |
| Hamilton, Jane | The book of Ruth | 13 |
| Hamilton, Laurell | The Lunatic cafe | 15 |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese falcon | 19 |
| Harris, Joanne | Five quarters of the orange | 17 |
| Haruf, Kent | Eventide | 20 |
| Haruf, Kent | Plainsong | 17 |
| Hawks, Tony | Round Ireland with a fridge | 20 |
| Hegi, Ursula | Stones from the river | 8 |
| Hellenga, Robert | The sixteen pleasures | 10 |
| Hersey, John | Antonietta: a novel | 12 |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: an american legend | 16 |
| Hoffman, Alice | Fortune's daughter | 10 |
| Hornby, Nick | About a boy | 20 |
| Horwitz, Tony | Blue latitudes : boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before | 20 |
| Horwitz, Tony | Civil War | 14 |
| The Kite Runner | Hosseini, Khaled | 20 |
| House, Silas | Clay's Quilt | 20 |
| Humphreys, Josephine | The fireman's fair | 13 |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their eyes were watching God: a novel | 12 |
| Huxley, Elizabeth J. | The flame trees of Thika: memories of an African childhood | 20 |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The remains of the day | 13 |
| James, Henry | Washington Square | 20 |
| Jenkins, Peter | Looking for Alaska | 19 |
| Kaplan, Alice Yeager | French lessons: a memoir | 15 |
| Kay, Terry | To dance with the white dog: a novel | 20 |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The secret life of bees | 12 |
| Kidder, Tracy | Among schoolchildren | 9 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Pigs in heaven: a novel | 9 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Prodigal summer: a novel | 19 |
| Kinsella, W.P. | Box socials | 13 |
| Kokoris, Jim | The rich part of life | 20 |
| Kotlowitz, Alex | Never a city so real | 150 |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake | 20 |
| Landvik, Lorna | Your oasis on Flame Lake | 18 |
| Larson, Erik | The devil in the white city | 20 |
| Lawson, Mary | Crow Lake | 19 |
| Lee, Harper | To kill a mockingbird | 19 |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | The summer of the great-grandmother | 10 |
| Letts, Billie | The Honk and Holler opening soon | 20 |
| Lewis, Meriwether | The journals of Lewis and Clark | 18 |
| Lewis, Sara | The answer is yes | 20 |
| Liftin, Hilary | Dear exile: the true story of two friends separated (for a year) by an ocean | 19 |
| Lipman, Elinor | The Inn at Lake Devine: a novel | 16 |
| Lord, Bette | The middle heart | 14 |
| Maohfauoz, Najaib | Wedding song | 19 |
| Markham, Beryl | West with the night | 20 |
| Martel, Yann | Life of Pi: a novel | 20 |
| Matson, Suzanne | The hunger moon | 17 |
| Mattison, Alice | The book borrower: the novel | 19 |
| Maupin, Armistead | Tales of the city | 11 |
| Mayle, Peter | A year in Provence | 9 |
| McCall Smith, R.A. | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | 15 |
| McLarey, Myra | Water from the well | 22 |
| Medina, Pablo | The cigar roller | 20 |
| Michaels, Anne | Fugitive pieces | 20 |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a salesman; certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem | 20 |
| Min, Anchee | Becoming Madame Mao | 17 |
| Moaveni, Azadeh | Lipstick Jihad: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iraq | 20 |
| Monette, Paul | Halfway home | 18 |
| Murdoch, Iris | Under the net | 18 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Bad boy: a memoir | 18 |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran | 18 |
| Newby, Eric | Slowly down the Ganges | 20 |
| Norris, Kathleen | Dakota: a spiritual geography | 11 |
| O'Brien, Tim | The things they carried: a work of fiction | 19 |
| O'Faolain, Naula | Are you somebody: the accidental memoir of a Dublin woman | 18 |
| Ondaatje, Michael | In the skin of a lion: a novel | 19 |
| Ondaatje, Michael | The English patient: a novel | 9 |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the emperor was divine | 20 |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel canto: a novel | 19 |
| Picoult, Jodi | My sister's keeper | 18 |
| Pietrzyk, Leslie | Pears on a willow tree | 13 |
| Pogrebin, Letty Cottin | Deborah, Golda, and me: being female and Jewish in America | 13 |
| Price, Reynolds | Blue Calhoun | 17 |
| Proulx, Annie | Close range: Wyoming stories | 19 |
| Proulx, Annie | The shipping news | 11 |
| Puig, Manuel | Kiss of the spider woman | 11 |
| Quindlen, Anna | Black and blue: a novel | 14 |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Housekeeping | 20 |
| Ross, Ann B. | Miss Julia speaks her mind: a novel | 14 |
| Roth, Philip | American pastoral | 11 |
| Roth, Philip | The plot against America | 20 |
| Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone | 15 |
| Russo, Richard | Straight man | 13 |
| Salzman, Mark | Iron & silk | 20 |
| Salzman, Mark | The soloist | 18 |
| Santiago, Esmeralda | When I was Puerto Rican | 18 |
| Schlink, Bernhard | The reader | 18 |
| Sebold, Alice | The lovely bones: a novel | 18 |
| Settle, Mary Lee | Turkish reflections: a biography of a place | 18 |
| Shaara, Michael | The killer angels: a novel | 6 |
| Shields, Carol | Larry's party | 18 |
| Shields, Carol | The stone diaries | 9 |
| Shreve, Anita | The pilot's wife: a novel | 19 |
| Shreve, Anita | Sea Glass | 20 |
| Shreve, Anita | The weight of water | 19 |
| Simpson, Mona | The lost father | 11 |
| Smiley, Jane | A thousand acres | 10 |
| Smiley, Jane | Moo: a novel | 15 |
| Smith, Diane | Letters from Yellowstone | 19 |
| Sontag, Susan | Conversations with Susan Sontag | 20 |
| Springer, Nancy | I am Morgan le Fay: a tale from Camelot | 15 |
| Stegner, Wallace Earle | Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the west | 20 |
| Suberman, Stella | The Jew store | 18 |
| Sucher, Cheryl Pearl | The rescue of memory: a novel | 20 |
| Swift, Graham | Last orders | 19 |
| Tan, Amy | The bonesetter's daughter | 18 |
| Tan, Amy | The hundred secret senses | 10 |
| Theroux, Paul | The great railway bazaar | 20 |
| Thesiger, Wilfred | Arabian sands | 19 |
| Trembath, Don | Lefty Carmichael has a fit | 20 |
| Trigiani, Adriana | Lucia, lucia: a novel | 20 |
| Truman, Margaret | First ladies | 11 |
| Tsukiyama, Gail | The Samurai's garden | 18 |
| Tyler, Anne | Back when we were grownups: a novel | 18 |
| Tyler, Anne | The amateur marriage | 19 |
| Udall, Brady | The miracle life of Edgar Mint: a novel | 20 |
| Updike, John | Gertrude and Claudius | 20 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Mother night | 19 |
| Walker, Alice | By the light of my father's smile: a novel | 19 |
| Watson, Lawrence | Montana 1948: a novel | 4 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy | 19 |
| Wells, Rebecca | Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel | 7 |
| Welty, Eudora | Delta Wedding | 19 |
| West, Dorothy | The wedding | 19 |
| Wharton, Edith | The house of mirth | 8 |
| Wharton, William | Birdy | 16 |
| White, Bailey | Quite a year for plums: a novel | 20 |
| Wolfe, Swain | The lake dreams the sky: a love story | 20 |
| Wolff, Tobias | The night in question: a stories | 17 |
| Yglesias, Helen | The girls | 20 |
| Yoshikawa, Mako | One hundred and one ways | 15 |
| Yoshimoto, Banana | Kitchen | 14 |
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