Just to let you know that the Library has updated (2/3/2011) the Book Group in a Bag title Selection and have some wonderful books for book groups - the selection of titles by author is listed below. There are generally 10 books in a book bag (although more may be available if you have a larger book group). The Friends' sorting volunteers try to keep extra copies of these books as they are donated. This is a great way to read a classic and enjoy a discussion. Try non-fiction! Experience another culture or another time. Set a date to meet your friends and enjoy the reading experience!
Bryson's Shakespeare is excellent. I highly recommend ALL of Ariana Franklin! We can learn a great deal from Gawande (I never miss his articles in the New Yorker). Your next fast passed read should be Kathleen Kent's Heretic's Daughter (and then the sequel/prequel!). I am still talking about The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, that I read for the first time last year. Cannot believe I missed that, or it's sequel a decade ago. Great new author for me. Don't miss her other books. If you need a lovely gentle read, that is also thought provoking and well written, you will enjoy Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. It is charming. When baseball season rolls around, don't forget Shoeless Joe (Kinsella) it is a classic.
Book Group Bag Titles
Sherman Alexie – The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
Katherine Applegate – Home of the brave
Margaret Atwood – The handmaid’s tale
Muriel Barbery – The elegance of the hedgehog
Elizabeth Berg – We are all welcome here
Clara Bingham – Class action
R.D. Blackmore – Lorna Doone
Jenna Blum – Those who save us
Chris Bohjalian – Before you know kindness
T. Coraghessan Boyle – The tortilla curtain
Kevin Brockmeier – The brief history of the dead
Geraldine Brooks – Year of wonders
Bill Bryson – Shakespeare: the world as stage
Caleb Carr – The alienist
Willa Cather – O Pioneers!
Catherine Clinton – Mrs. Lincoln: a life
Bryce Courtenay – The power of one
Andre Dubus III – The house of sand and fog
Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca
Firoozeh Dumas – Funny in Farsi
Nancy Farmer – The house of the scorpion
Drew Gilpin Faust – This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
Ariana Franklin – City of Shadows
Jonathan Franzen – The corrections
Gregory A. Freeman – Lay this body down: the 1921 murders of eleven plantation slaves
Atul Gawande – Better: a surgeon’s notes
Stella Gibbons – Cold Comfort Farm
Lorraine Hansberry – A raisin in the sun
Nicole Helget – The summer of ordinary ways
Ernest Hemingway – For whom the bell tolls
Sheri Holman – The dress lodger
Tony Horwitz – Confederates in the attic
Victor Hugo – The hunchback of Notre Dame
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never let me go
Joseph Kanon – The good German
Kathleen Kent – The heretic’s daughter
Haven Kimmel – A girl named Zippy
Thomas King – Green grass, running water
W.P. Kinsella – Shoeless Joe
Jonathan Kozol – Letters to a young teacher
Jhumpa Lahiri – The namesake
John Le Carre – The constant gardener
James Levine – The blue notebook
Mary Logue – Blood country
Bette Lord – Spring moon
Gregory Maguire – Wicked
James McBride – The color of water
Ian McEwan – Saturday
Alison McGhee – Shadow baby
Wes Moore – The other Wes Moore
Walter Dean Myers – Riot
Kent Nerburn – Neither wolf nor dog
Barack Obama – Dreams from my father
Sara Paretsky – Bleeding Kansas
Gordon Parks – The learning tree
Chaim Potok – The chosen
Susan Power – The grass dancer
Peter Razor – While the locust slept
O.E. Rölvaag – Giants in the earth
Tatiana de Rosnay – Sarah’s Key
Edmund Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac
Mary Doria Russell – The sparrow
Lisa See – Shanghai girls
William Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet
Fan Shen – Gang of one: memoirs of a Red Guard
Jean Shepherd – In God we trust, all others pay cash
Helen Simonson – Major Pettigrew’s last stand
Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s cabin
Faith Sullivan – The Cape Ann
Kressmann Taylor – Address unknown
William Makepeace Thackeray – Vanity fair
P.J. Tracy – Monkeewrench
Sarah Vowell – Assassination vacation
Jeanette Walls – Half broke horses
Eric Weiner – The geography of bliss
Elie Wiesel – Night
Thornton Wilder – Our town: a play in three acts
Kao Kalia Yang – The latehomecomer: a Hmong family memoir
Jeffrey Zaslow – The girls from Ames: a story of women and a forty year friendship
Showing posts with label Book Group in a Bag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Group in a Bag. Show all posts
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Just Add Readers!
Book Group in-a-bag kits (BGBs)
You just finished reading the most amazing book and you’re just dying to talk to someone about it but none of your friends have read it yet. So you loan your book out to your friends, but it’s taking forever for them to read it. Being the good friend you are, you don’t want to spoil it for them by telling them the ending too soon, so you wait—and wait some more—until you finally have someone to discus the book with. By that time you may have forgotten all the details you wanted to talk about, leaving the much anticipated discussion unsatisfactory. What’s a person to do?
The library has a solution: Book Group in-a-bag kits—just add readers!
These book group in-a-bag kits contain ten books of the same title that someone can check out and share with their friends. We started with 22 book group bags (January 2005) and currently have over 100 titles to choose from: classics, mysteries, thrillers, etc. They can be reserved up to a year in advance for a specific six-week period. They are in high demand so plan accordingly. We are on track to have 400 circs for 2010. We recently added some titles for children to enjoy the experience of book groups. The kits for children have between six and eight books per bag and currently there are eleven titles available.
The kits were originally part of an initiative funded by the Minnesota Library Association Foundation in 2004. We had a grant of $2000 to start our collection of book club kits that people can check out for their own book groups. The majority of that money was used to purchase the book group bags, since we initially selected titles based on which books we were able to pull from donations. We still create some kits using donated books from our Library Friends. If there is enough local interest in titles that we don’t have, we will purchase books; 10-15% of new BGBs are patron suggestions. Every year we add 10-20 new titles and circulation for these kits have really increased through the years.
Interested patrons should contact library staff at the Fiction, Movies and Music desk to book BGBs (in person or over the phone).
BGBs must be picked up and returned to the Fiction, Movies & Music Desk, NOT the bookmobile or the drive up book return. Bags are not checked out until all the books are returned. The title list is available online. If you have any suggestions of titles you would like to see in our book group in-a-bag list, just let us know.
Each bag has:
10 copies of the book
A reading group guide and discussion questions
sign out sheet,
book group basics handout,
evaluation sheet
Read-alike bookmarks
Katherine Stecher
Readers Services Division
You just finished reading the most amazing book and you’re just dying to talk to someone about it but none of your friends have read it yet. So you loan your book out to your friends, but it’s taking forever for them to read it. Being the good friend you are, you don’t want to spoil it for them by telling them the ending too soon, so you wait—and wait some more—until you finally have someone to discus the book with. By that time you may have forgotten all the details you wanted to talk about, leaving the much anticipated discussion unsatisfactory. What’s a person to do?
The library has a solution: Book Group in-a-bag kits—just add readers!
These book group in-a-bag kits contain ten books of the same title that someone can check out and share with their friends. We started with 22 book group bags (January 2005) and currently have over 100 titles to choose from: classics, mysteries, thrillers, etc. They can be reserved up to a year in advance for a specific six-week period. They are in high demand so plan accordingly. We are on track to have 400 circs for 2010. We recently added some titles for children to enjoy the experience of book groups. The kits for children have between six and eight books per bag and currently there are eleven titles available.
The kits were originally part of an initiative funded by the Minnesota Library Association Foundation in 2004. We had a grant of $2000 to start our collection of book club kits that people can check out for their own book groups. The majority of that money was used to purchase the book group bags, since we initially selected titles based on which books we were able to pull from donations. We still create some kits using donated books from our Library Friends. If there is enough local interest in titles that we don’t have, we will purchase books; 10-15% of new BGBs are patron suggestions. Every year we add 10-20 new titles and circulation for these kits have really increased through the years.
Interested patrons should contact library staff at the Fiction, Movies and Music desk to book BGBs (in person or over the phone).
BGBs must be picked up and returned to the Fiction, Movies & Music Desk, NOT the bookmobile or the drive up book return. Bags are not checked out until all the books are returned. The title list is available online. If you have any suggestions of titles you would like to see in our book group in-a-bag list, just let us know.
Each bag has:
10 copies of the book
A reading group guide and discussion questions
sign out sheet,
book group basics handout,
evaluation sheet
Read-alike bookmarks
Katherine Stecher
Readers Services Division
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Book Group in A BAG
The Library has a great selection of BOOK GROUP in a BAG, with hundreds of titles in Fiction, Non Fiction, Children's and Young Adult. There are also wonderful Reading Group or Book Club Guides (with questions, or if you like this author, read these).
Don't forget that the Rochester Reads book The Worst Hard Time is also available as a BookGroup in a Bag.
So, what is your book group reading next??
We'd like to hear what you are reading throughout the coming year. We would be delighted to open discussion on authors or particular books too. There will be new titles added this year as well. Please let the Library know if you have any titles you can't wait to read.
Don't forget to meet the author too = the Library has a number of author visits scheduled for 2011. Watch this space! There are quite a few regional visits of authors as well. Share if you plan to attend.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Book Groups - Book Clubs
What is your book group reading next??
We'd like to hear what you are reading throughout the coming year. We would be delighted to open discussion on authors or particular books too. The Library has a great selection of BOOK GROUP in a BAG, with hundreds of titles. There are also wonderful Reading Group or Book Club Guides (with questions, or if you like this author, read these).
Don't forget to meet the author too = the Library has a number of author visits scheduled for 2011. Watch this space! There are quite a few regional visits of authors as well. Share if you plan to attend.
A favourite spot to locate new book titles, subject or ideas or award winning authors is htttp://www.vintagebooks.com/read
One of my book groups has a Poetry Pot Luck in December - an annual event now. In January we are reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Books discussed or suggested or on want to read lists: (Feel free to recommend or not any on this list!)
Diego and Frida by LeClezio
Half Baked Ponies by Jeanette Walls (memoir)
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Aulett (NF)
The Piano Teacher by Janice K. Lee (F)
The House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (F)
Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Schain, recently recommended
House Keeping by Marilyn Robinson ( a recent Writer's Almanac)
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
Making Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen Breyer (just out in Sept!)
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Man(NF) by Laney Salisbury, Ally Sujo,
When the Crocodile Ate the Sun ()NF) by Peter Godwin,
Five Quarters of the Orange (F) by Joanne Harris
Remembering Smell for Fun (NF) by Bonnie Blodgett
Sea of Poppies (F) by Amitov Ghosh
The Little Stranger (F) by Sarah Waters
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Outcasts United by Warren St. John (NF)
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (recently featured on MPR)
We'd like to hear what you are reading throughout the coming year. We would be delighted to open discussion on authors or particular books too. The Library has a great selection of BOOK GROUP in a BAG, with hundreds of titles. There are also wonderful Reading Group or Book Club Guides (with questions, or if you like this author, read these).
Don't forget to meet the author too = the Library has a number of author visits scheduled for 2011. Watch this space! There are quite a few regional visits of authors as well. Share if you plan to attend.
A favourite spot to locate new book titles, subject or ideas or award winning authors is htttp://www.vintagebooks.com/read
One of my book groups has a Poetry Pot Luck in December - an annual event now. In January we are reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Books discussed or suggested or on want to read lists: (Feel free to recommend or not any on this list!)
Diego and Frida by LeClezio
Half Baked Ponies by Jeanette Walls (memoir)
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Aulett (NF)
The Piano Teacher by Janice K. Lee (F)
The House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (F)
Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Schain, recently recommended
House Keeping by Marilyn Robinson ( a recent Writer's Almanac)
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
Making Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen Breyer (just out in Sept!)
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Man(NF) by Laney Salisbury, Ally Sujo,
When the Crocodile Ate the Sun ()NF) by Peter Godwin,
Five Quarters of the Orange (F) by Joanne Harris
Remembering Smell for Fun (NF) by Bonnie Blodgett
Sea of Poppies (F) by Amitov Ghosh
The Little Stranger (F) by Sarah Waters
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Outcasts United by Warren St. John (NF)
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (recently featured on MPR)
Monday, August 9, 2010
Book Group in a Bag
Just to let you know that the Library has some wonderful books for book groups - the selection of titles by author is listed below. There are generally 10 books in a book bag (although more may be available if you have a larger book group). The Friends' sorting volunteers try to keep extra copies of these books as they are donated. This is a great way to read a classic and enjoy a discussion. Try a new piece of non-fiction and be taken away! Experience another culture or another time. Set a date to meet your friends and enjoy the reading experience!
Alexie, Sherman. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian Flight
Almond, Steve. Candyfreak
Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings
Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice
Bancroft, Ann and Liv Arnesen. No horizon is so far
Barbery, Muriel. Elegance of the hedgehog
Barrows, Annie. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Berg, Elizabeth. We are all welcome here
Bingham, Clara. Class action
Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone
Blum, Jenna. Those who save us
Bohjalian, Chris. Before you know kindness
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. The tortilla curtain
Brockmeier, Kevin. The brief history of the dead
Brooks, Geraldine. Year of wonders
Brown, Dan. Angels and demons
The Da Vinci code
Buck, Pearl S. The good earth
Carr, Caleb. The alienist
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland; Through the looking-glass
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!
Chevalier, Tracy. Falling angels
Child, Julia. My life in France
Clark, Walter. The ox-bow incident
Clinton, Catherine. Mrs. Lincoln: a life
Courtenay, Bryce. The power of one
Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage
Cross, Donna W. Pope Joan
Diamant, Anita. The red tent
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas carol
Dubus, Andre III. The house of sand and fog
Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi
Edwards, Kim. The memory keeper’s daughter
Eliot, George. Silas Marner
Elliott, Elissa. Eve
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex
Farmer, Nancy. House of the scoprion
Franklin, Ariana. City of shadows
Franzen, Jonathan. The corrections
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain
Gladwell, Malcolm. The tipping point
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a geisha
Grisham, John. The innocent man
Grogan, John. Marley and me
Gruen, Sara. Water for elephants
Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the sun
Hemingway, Ernest. For whom the bell tolls
Holman, Sheri. The dress lodger
Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner and A thousand splendid suns
Hugo, Victor. The hunchback of Notre Dame
Kanon, Jospeh. The good German
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees
Kidder, Tracy. Mountains beyond mountains
King, Thomas. Green grass, running water
Kingsolver, Barbara. The bean trees
Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe
Kozol, Jonathan. Letters to a young teacher
Krakauer, Jon. Into the wild
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The namesake
Landvik, Lorna. Angry housewives eating bon-bons
Larson, Erik. The devil in the White City
Larsson, Stieg. The girl with the dragon tattoo
Le Carre, John. The constant gardener
Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird
Levin, Ira. Stepford wives
Levine, James. The blue notebook
Loewen, James. Lies my teacher told me
Logue, Mary. Blood country
Lord, Bette. Spring moon
Lowry, Lois. The giver
Martel, Yann. The life of Pi
Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan sun
McBride, James. The color of water
McCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes
McEwan, Ian. Atonement
McGhee, Alison. Shadow baby
McLaughlin, Emma. The nanny diaries
Moriarty, Laura. The center of everything
Morgan, Robert. Gap Creek
Mortensen, Greg. Three cups of tea
Myers, Walter Dean. Riot
Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father
Paretsky, Sara. Bleeding Kansas
Parks, Gordon. The learning tree
Petterson, Per. Out stealing horses
Picoult, Jodi. Plain truth
Power, Susan. The grass dancer
Quindlen, Anna. Blessings
Razor, Peter J. While the locust slept
Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead
Rölvaag, O.E. Giants in the earth
Rostand, Edmund. Cyrano de Bergerac
Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow
Sachar, Louis. Holes
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis
Schmidt, Monique Maria. Last moon dancing
Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones
See, Lisa. Shanghai girls
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet
Shen, Fan. Gang of one: memoirs of a Red Guard
Steinbeck, John. The grapes of wrath
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s cabin
Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge
Taylor, Kathrine Kressmann. Address unknown
Thackeray, William. Vanity fair
Tracy, P.J. Monkeewrench
Wilder, Thornton. Our town: a play in three acts
Wroblewski, David. The story of Edgar Sawtelle
Yang, Kao Kalia. The latehomecomer
Young, William P. The shack
Zaslow, Jeffrey. The girls from Ames
Zusak, Markus. The book thief
Alexie, Sherman. The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian Flight
Almond, Steve. Candyfreak
Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings
Austen, Jane. Pride and prejudice
Bancroft, Ann and Liv Arnesen. No horizon is so far
Barbery, Muriel. Elegance of the hedgehog
Barrows, Annie. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Berg, Elizabeth. We are all welcome here
Bingham, Clara. Class action
Blackmore, R.D. Lorna Doone
Blum, Jenna. Those who save us
Bohjalian, Chris. Before you know kindness
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. The tortilla curtain
Brockmeier, Kevin. The brief history of the dead
Brooks, Geraldine. Year of wonders
Brown, Dan. Angels and demons
The Da Vinci code
Buck, Pearl S. The good earth
Carr, Caleb. The alienist
Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s adventures in Wonderland; Through the looking-glass
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers!
Chevalier, Tracy. Falling angels
Child, Julia. My life in France
Clark, Walter. The ox-bow incident
Clinton, Catherine. Mrs. Lincoln: a life
Courtenay, Bryce. The power of one
Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage
Cross, Donna W. Pope Joan
Diamant, Anita. The red tent
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas carol
Dubus, Andre III. The house of sand and fog
Dumas, Firoozeh. Funny in Farsi
Edwards, Kim. The memory keeper’s daughter
Eliot, George. Silas Marner
Elliott, Elissa. Eve
Eugenides, Jeffrey. Middlesex
Farmer, Nancy. House of the scoprion
Franklin, Ariana. City of shadows
Franzen, Jonathan. The corrections
Frazier, Charles. Cold Mountain
Gladwell, Malcolm. The tipping point
Golden, Arthur. Memoirs of a geisha
Grisham, John. The innocent man
Grogan, John. Marley and me
Gruen, Sara. Water for elephants
Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Hansberry, Lorraine. A raisin in the sun
Hemingway, Ernest. For whom the bell tolls
Holman, Sheri. The dress lodger
Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner and A thousand splendid suns
Hugo, Victor. The hunchback of Notre Dame
Kanon, Jospeh. The good German
Kidd, Sue Monk. The secret life of bees
Kidder, Tracy. Mountains beyond mountains
King, Thomas. Green grass, running water
Kingsolver, Barbara. The bean trees
Kinsella, W.P. Shoeless Joe
Kozol, Jonathan. Letters to a young teacher
Krakauer, Jon. Into the wild
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The namesake
Landvik, Lorna. Angry housewives eating bon-bons
Larson, Erik. The devil in the White City
Larsson, Stieg. The girl with the dragon tattoo
Le Carre, John. The constant gardener
Lee, Harper. To kill a mockingbird
Levin, Ira. Stepford wives
Levine, James. The blue notebook
Loewen, James. Lies my teacher told me
Logue, Mary. Blood country
Lord, Bette. Spring moon
Lowry, Lois. The giver
Martel, Yann. The life of Pi
Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan sun
McBride, James. The color of water
McCourt, Frank. Angela's ashes
McEwan, Ian. Atonement
McGhee, Alison. Shadow baby
McLaughlin, Emma. The nanny diaries
Moriarty, Laura. The center of everything
Morgan, Robert. Gap Creek
Mortensen, Greg. Three cups of tea
Myers, Walter Dean. Riot
Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father
Paretsky, Sara. Bleeding Kansas
Parks, Gordon. The learning tree
Petterson, Per. Out stealing horses
Picoult, Jodi. Plain truth
Power, Susan. The grass dancer
Quindlen, Anna. Blessings
Razor, Peter J. While the locust slept
Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead
Rölvaag, O.E. Giants in the earth
Rostand, Edmund. Cyrano de Bergerac
Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow
Sachar, Louis. Holes
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis
Schmidt, Monique Maria. Last moon dancing
Sebold, Alice. The lovely bones
See, Lisa. Shanghai girls
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet
Shen, Fan. Gang of one: memoirs of a Red Guard
Steinbeck, John. The grapes of wrath
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s cabin
Strout, Elizabeth. Olive Kitteridge
Taylor, Kathrine Kressmann. Address unknown
Thackeray, William. Vanity fair
Tracy, P.J. Monkeewrench
Wilder, Thornton. Our town: a play in three acts
Wroblewski, David. The story of Edgar Sawtelle
Yang, Kao Kalia. The latehomecomer
Young, William P. The shack
Zaslow, Jeffrey. The girls from Ames
Zusak, Markus. The book thief
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