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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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