Book Club Kits
If you belong to a book discussion group or would like to start one, you’re invited to check out our selection of book club kit titles. Each kit contains multiple copies of a title and a master book discussion guide. Funding for this collection was provided by the Friends of the Manitowoc Public Library.
For additional info, please contact the Service Desk at 920-686-3000 or email mplservice@manitowoc.org.
100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared, The by Jonas Jonasson
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Art of Fielding, The by Chad Harbach
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bone House, The by Brian Freeman
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass On A Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Link
Boys in the Boat, The by Daniel Brown
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Christmas Town, The by Donna VanLiere
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Devil in the White City, The: Murder, Magic, and Madness At the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Ditch Flowers by Amanda Linsmeier
Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
Eighty-Dollar Champion, The by Elizabeth Letts
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Falls, The by Joyce Carol Oates
Fantastic Mr. Fox, The by Roald Dahl
Fever 1793

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life Of A Critic In Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Girl Named Zippy, A by Haven Kimmel
Subjects: Biography City and town life, Girls
Girl on the Train, The by Paula Hawkins
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Greatest Generation, The by Tom Brokaw
Hating Game, The by Sally Thorne
Haunted Wisconsin by Michael Norman
Help, The by Kathryn Stockett
Hidden Legacy, The by Carrie Sue Barnes
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Hindi-Bindi Club, The by Monica Pradhan
Hobbit, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
Home for Christmas by Holly Chamberlin
House Broken by Sonja Yoerg
Hundred-Foot Journey, The by Richard Morais
Hunger Games, The by Suzanne Collins
Husband’s Secret, The by Liane Moriarty
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Inn At Lake Devine, The by Elinor Lipman
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Jingle All the Way by Debbie Macomber
Kind Worth Killing, The by Peter Swanson
Kitchen Boy, The by Robert Alexander
Kitchen House, The

In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house-slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds and when loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare and lives are at risk.
Kite Runner, The by Khaled Hosseini
Law Of Similars, The by Chris Bohjalian
Lies by T.M. Logan
Light Between Oceans, The by M. L. Stedman
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Long Way From Chicago, A by Richard Peck
Looking For Me by Beth Hoffman
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Memoir Of The Sunday Brunch by Julia Pandl
Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
Mourning Hours by Paula Treick DeBoard
Mutual Admiration Society, The by Lesley Kagen
My Antonia by Willa Cather
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
Nanette’s Baguette by Mo Willems
Nanny Diaries, The by Emma McLaughlin
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education Of Two Society Girls In The West by Dorothy Wickenden
Nutshell by Ian McEwan
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
One and Only Ivan, The by Katherine Applegate
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Other People’s Houses by Abbi Waxman
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Patron Saint Of Liars, The by Ann Patchett
Patty Jane’s House Of Curl by Lorna Landvik
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Poison Squad, The by Deborah Blum
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Princess Bride, The by William Goldman
Promise, The: How One Woman Made Good On Her Extraordinary Pact To Send A Classroom Of 1st Graders To College by Oral Lee Brown
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Road From Coorain, The by Jill Ker Conway
Room by Emma Donoghue
Rosie Project, The by Graeme C. Simsion
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Savage Garden, The by Mark Mills
Saving CeeCee HoneyCutt by Beth Hoffman
Second Sister, The by Marie Bostwick
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan by Lisa See
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Stress Fracture by Tara Meissner
Tale for the Time Being, A by Ruth Ozeki
There There by Tommy Orange
Things They Carried, The by Tim O'Brien
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Thousand Splendid Suns, A by Khaled Hosseini
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tortilla Curtain, The by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A by Betty Smith
Two Rivers by T. Greenwood
Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Untamed: The Wildest Woman In America And The Fight For Cumberland Island by Will Harlan
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Are Unprepared by Meg Little Reilly
Wedding Dress, The by Rachel Hauck
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
Whistling In The Dark by Lesley Kagen
Whistling Season, The by Ivan Doig
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Wingshooters by Nina Revoyr
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
Wonder by R. J. Palacio
World’s Largest Man, The by Harrison Scott Key
Wrinkle in Time, A by Madeleine L'Engle
100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared, The by Jonas Jonasson
84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
About A Boy by Nick Hornby
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Art of Fielding, The by Chad Harbach
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Bone House, The by Brian Freeman
Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass On A Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Link
Boys in the Boat, The by Daniel Brown
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Christmas Town, The by Donna VanLiere
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Devil in the White City, The: Murder, Magic, and Madness At the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Ditch Flowers by Amanda Linsmeier
Educated: a Memoir by Tara Westover
Eighty-Dollar Champion, The by Elizabeth Letts
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
Falls, The by Joyce Carol Oates
Fantastic Mr. Fox, The by Roald Dahl
Fever 1793

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life Of A Critic In Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Girl Named Zippy, A by Haven Kimmel
Subjects: Biography City and town life, Girls
Girl on the Train, The by Paula Hawkins
Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Greatest Generation, The by Tom Brokaw
Hating Game, The by Sally Thorne
Haunted Wisconsin by Michael Norman
Help, The by Kathryn Stockett
Hidden Legacy, The by Carrie Sue Barnes
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Hindi-Bindi Club, The by Monica Pradhan
Hobbit, The by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Louis Sachar
Home for Christmas by Holly Chamberlin
House Broken by Sonja Yoerg
Hundred-Foot Journey, The by Richard Morais
Hunger Games, The by Suzanne Collins
Husband’s Secret, The by Liane Moriarty
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Inn At Lake Devine, The by Elinor Lipman
Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
Jingle All the Way by Debbie Macomber
Kind Worth Killing, The by Peter Swanson
Kitchen Boy, The by Robert Alexander
Kitchen House, The

In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house-slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. As time passes she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds and when loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare and lives are at risk.