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: August 29, 2008)Book and Reading Discussion Collection list (PDF) 
| Author | Title | # of copies |
| Albom, Mitch | Las cinco personas que encontrar s en el cielo | 5 |
| Alexander, Robert | The kitchen boy | 15 |
| Allende, Isabel | Daughter of fortune: a novel | 13 |
| Allende, Isabel | My invented country | 19 |
| Allende, Isabel | Paula | 14 |
| Alvarez, Julia | How the Garcia girls lost their accents | 14 |
| Anaya, Rudolfo | Bless me, Ultima | 10 |
| Ansay, A. Manette | Blue Water | 20 |
| Atwood, Margaret | Alias Grace | 11 |
| Atwood, Margaret | The blind assassin | 9 |
| Austen, Jane | Persuasion | 20 |
| Bahr, Howard | The year of jubilo: a novel of the Civil War | 18 |
| Bayley, John | Elegy for Iris | 16 |
| Bayly, Jaime | Y de Repente, un angel | 8 |
| Berendt, John | City of Falling Angels | 20 |
| Berendt, John | Midnight in the garden of the good and evil | 8 |
| Bernardo, Jos, RaY1 | Las sabias mujeres de La Habana | 7 |
| Bloom, Amy | Love invents us | 12 |
| Boylan, James | Getting in: a novel | 12 |
| Bradbury, Ray | Fahrenheit 451 | 16 |
| Bragg, Rick | All over but the shoutin' | 10 |
| Brooks, Geraldine | March | 18 |
| Bryson, Bill | In a sunburned country | 19 |
| Bryson, Bill | Notes from a Small Island | 20 |
| Byatt, A.S. | The Matisse stories | 12 |
| Campbell, Helen | Turnip blues | 13 |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia | 19 |
| Chatwin, Bruce | In Patagonia | 20 |
| Chavez, Denise | Face of an angel | 17 |
| Chevalier, Tracy | The lady and the unicorn | 17 |
| Cohan, Tony | On Mexican time | 16 |
| Cohn, Rachel | Gingerbread | 8 |
| Dai, Sijie | Balzac and the little Chineses seamstress | 16 |
| Dallas, Sandra | The Chili Queen | 14 |
| Dallas, Sandra | The diary of Mattie Spenser | 15 |
| De Rosa, Tina | Paper fish | 18 |
| Dean, Debra | Madonnas of Leningrad | 20 |
| Deane, Seamus | Reading in the dark | 15 |
| Denevi, Marco | Rosaura a las diez | 9 |
| Dickens, Charles | A tale of two cities | 20 |
| Divakaruni, Chitra | The mistress of spices | 14 |
| Doctorow, E.L. | The March | 20 |
| Dubus, Andre | House of sand and fog | 8 |
| Dunant, Sarah | Birth of Venus | 20 |
| Edwards, Kim | The Memory Keeper's Daughter | 28 |
| Ehrenreich, Barbara | Nickel and dimed | 20 |
| 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 | 16 |
| Ephron, Amy | A cup of tea: a novel of 1917 | 19 |
| Erdrich, Louise | Master butchers singing club | 20 |
| Evans, Richard Paul | A Perfect Day | 20 |
| Faulks, Sebastian | Birdsong | 11 |
| Feiler, Bruce S. | Learning to bow: inside the heart of Japan | 17 |
| 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 | 17 |
| Foer, Jonathan Safran | Everything is illuminated: a novel | 20 |
| Friedan, Betty | The fountain of age | 8 |
| Friedman, Thomas | The World is Flat | 24 |
| 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 | 17 |
| Geoffrian, Alan | Broken Trail | 25 |
| Gibbons, Kaye | Ellen Foster: a novel | 13 |
| Gibbons, Kaye | On the occasion of my last afternoon | 19 |
| Gilbert, Elizabeth | Eat, Pray, Love | 25 |
| Glass, Julia | Three Junes | 18 |
| Godwin, Gail | Evensong | 15 |
| Goldberg, Myla | Bee season: a novel | 11 |
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Wait till next year: a memoir | 15 |
| Gordimer, Nadine | The Pickup | 20 |
| Gruen, Sara | Water for Elephants | 25 |
| Guerra, Wendy | Todos se Van | 11 |
| Haddon, Mark | The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | 7 |
| Haddon, Mark | A Spot of Bother | 20 |
| Haigh, Jennifer | Baker Towers | 20 |
| Hamilton, Jane | A map of the world | 8 |
| Hammett, Dashiell | The Maltese falcon | 19 |
| Hansen, Eric | Bird man and the Lap Dancer | 20 |
| Harris, Joanne | Five quarters of the orange | 15 |
| Haruf, Kent | Eventide | 19 |
| Haruf, Kent | Plainsong | 17 |
| Hawks, Tony | Round Ireland with a fridge | 20 |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: an american legend | 16 |
| Horn, Dara | The World to Come | 18 |
| Hosseini, Khaled | The Kite Runner | 10 |
| Hornby, Nick | About a boy | 20 |
| Horwitz, Tony | Blue latitudes : boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before | 20 |
| Horwitz, Tony | Confederates in the attic | 13 |
| House, Silas | Clay's Quilt | 20 |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their eyes were watching God: a novel | 11 |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | Never let me Go | 20 |
| Ishiguro, Kazuo | The remains of the day | 12 |
| James, Henry | Washington Square | 19 |
| Kaplan, Alice Yeager | French lessons: a memoir | 14 |
| Kay, Terry | To dance with the white dog: a novel | 20 |
| Kidd, Sue Monk | The secret life of bees | 11 |
| Kidder, Tracy | Mountains beyond Mountains | 25 |
| King, Laurie | The Beekeeper's Apprentice | 25 |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Prodigal summer: a novel | 15 |
| Kohn, Rebecca | The Gilded Chamber | 25 |
| Kokoris, Jim | The rich part of life | 17 |
| Kokoris, Jim | Field Notes on a Catastrophe | 10 |
| Kotlowitz, Alex | Never a city so real | 20 |
| Krass, Nicole | The History of Love | 20 |
| Lahiri, Jhumpa | The Namesake | 19 |
| Larson, Erik | The devil in the white city | 12 |
| Lawson, Mary | Crow Lake | 19 |
| Lee, Harper | To kill a mockingbird | 18 |
| Letts, Billie | The Honk and Holler opening soon | 19 |
| Letts, Elizabeth | Family Planning | 20 |
| 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 | 14 |
| 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 |
| Mattison, Alice | The book borrower: the novel | 15 |
| McCall Smith, R.A. | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | 14 |
| McEwan, Ian | Saturday | 20 |
| McLarey, Myra | Water from the well | 21 |
| Medina, Pablo | The cigar roller | 20 |
| Mehran, Marsha | Pomegranate Soup | 18 |
| Miller, Arthur | Death of a salesman; certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem | 11 |
| Miller, Sue | For Love | 25 |
| Min, Anchee | Becoming Madame Mao | 16 |
| Moaveni, Azadeh | Lipstick Jihad: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iraq | 19 |
| Mortenson, Greg | Three cups of Tea | 19 |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Bad boy: a memoir | 15 |
| Nafisi, Azar | Reading Lolita in Tehran | 14 |
| Obama, Barack | Dreams from my Father | 24 |
| 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 | 14 |
| O'Nan, Stuart | The Good Wife | 19 |
| Otsuka, Julie | When the emperor was divine | 5 |
| Patchett, Ann | Bel canto: a novel | 18 |
| Payne, Holly | The Sound of Blue | 20 |
| Picoult, Jodi | My sister's keeper | 12 |
| Proulx, Annie | Close range: Wyoming stories | 18 |
| Proulx, Annie | The shipping news | 10 |
| Robinson, Marilynne | Housekeeping | 17 |
| Roiphe, Anne | An Imperfect Lens | 25 |
| Ross, Ann B. | Miss Julia speaks her mind: a novel | 10 |
| Roth, Philip | American pastoral | 10 |
| Roth, Philip | The plot against America | 20 |
| Ruiz Zafon, Carlos | Shadow of the Wind | 19 |
| Russo, Richard | Straight man | 10 |
| Santiago, Esmeralda | When I was Puerto Rican | 18 |
| Schlink, Bernhard | The reader | 14 |
| Sebold, Alice | The lovely bones: a novel | 15 |
| Seierstad, Asne | The Bookseller of Kabul | 19 |
| See, Lisa | Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | 14 |
| Shields, Carol | Larry's party | 18 |
| Shreve, Anita | The pilot's wife: a novel | 17 |
| Shreve, Anita | Sea Glass | 20 |
| Shreve, Anita | The weight of water | 18 |
| Smiley, Jane | A thousand acres | 8 |
| Smith, Diane | Letters from Yellowstone | 20 |
| Stegner, Wallace Earle | Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the west | 20 |
| Steinbach, Alice | Without Reservations | 20 |
| Suberman, Stella | The Jew store | 17 |
| Swift, Graham | Last orders | 18 |
| Tan, Amy | The bonesetter's daughter | 18 |
| Theroux, Paul | Dark Star Safari | 25 |
| Theroux, Paul | The great railway bazaar | 18 |
| Thesiger, Wilfred | Arabian sands | 17 |
| Trigiani, Adriana | Lucia, lucia: a novel | 17 |
| Truman, Margaret | First ladies | 8 |
| Truong, Monique | The Book of Salt | 25 |
| Tsukiyama, Gail | The Samurai's garden | 16 |
| Tucker, Lisa | The Song Reader | 20 |
| Turner, Nancy | These is my Words | 20 |
| Tyler, Anne | Back when we were grownups: a novel | 19 |
| Tyler, Anne | The amateur marriage | 19 |
| Tyler, Anne | Digging to America | 24 |
| Udall, Brady | The miracle life of Edgar Mint: a novel | 20 |
| Updike, John | Gertrude and Claudius | 20 |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Mother night | 12 |
| Walls, Jeannette | The Glass Castle | 19 |
| Waugh, Evelyn | The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy | 19 |
| West, Dorothy | The wedding | 18 |
| White, Bailey | Quite a year for plums: a novel | 20 |
| Wolfe, Swain | The lake dreams the sky: a love story | 19 |
| 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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