Book Club Sets
How we choose the titles for the Book Club Sets:
1. The collection was created to support local book clubs. The University Women’s Book Club was the first to request multiple copies. In its hey day there were 3 groups of 25 people all reading the same books at different times during the year.
2. Supporting the Elder College course featuring the Festival of the Written Arts authors, we purchase book club sets for the authors studied in the program, usually 5 book club sets each year, celebrating Canadian authors
3. Our staff puts forward suggestions for titles thought to be of interest to our patrons.
4. Books that have a very high number of holds are also added to our Book Club sets.
When we purchase a book club set, we also purchase an audiobook, a large print edition, an ebook and an eaudiobook.
See the Events Calendar for Book Club meetings
Complete list of Book Club Titles
Book Club titles are available to everybody, but are especially handy for book clubs as we own multiple copies.
BIOGRAPHY
Author – Title
Coyote, Ivan – Rebent sinner
Eisen, Max – By chance alone
George, Sam / The fire still burns : life in and after residential school (SC FoWA 2024)
Hay, Elizabeth – All things consoled
Maclear, Kyo / Unearthing : a story of tangled love and family secrets (SC FoWA 2024)
Mcleod, Darrel J – Mamaskatch: a Cree coming of age
Obama, Michelle – Becoming
Pottle, Adam – Voice
Sakamoto, Mark – Forgiveness
Wilson, Tom – Beautiful scars
Wong, Lindsay – The woo woo : how I survived ice hockey, drug raids…
NON-FICTION
Author – Title
Barton, Adriana – Wired for music
Beaton, Kate – Ducks : two years in the oil sands (Canada Reads 2023 winner)
Browder, Bill – Freezing order : A true story of money laundering, murder…
Campbell, Deborah – A disappearance in Damascus
Chamberlin, J. Edward – Story lines : how words shape our world
Clark, Krystin – Grateful jar project (Local author)
Craigie, Gregor – Our crumbling foundation : how we solve Canada’s housing crisis (SC FoWA 2024)
Dyson, Phyllis – Among silent echoes : a memoir of trauma and resilience (Local author)
Frankl, Viktor E. – Man’s search for meaning
Giese, Rachel – Boys : what it means to become a man
Grann, David – The wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Johnson, Harold – Peace and good order
Klein, Naomi – Doppelganger
Klein, Seth – A good war
King, Thomas – The inconvenient Indian : a curious account…
Kishkan, Theresa – Euclid’s orchard & other essays
Lee, Jen Sookfong – The shadow list
Maté, Gabor – The myth of normal : trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture
McDonald, Bob – The future is now: solving the climate crisis…
Nelsen, Jane – Positive discipline
Peterson, Lester – The story of the Sechelt Nation
SCFWA – Monday was a simpler time : reflections on a pandemic
Simard, Suzanne – Finding the Mother Tree
Stanley, Kara / The pain project : a couple’s story of confronting chronic pain (SC FoWA 2024)
Vaillant, John – Fire weather
Warland, Betsy – Bloodroot
Wilson-Raybould, Jody – True reconciliation : how to be a force for change
FICTION
Author – Title
Azar, Shokoofeh – The enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
Banner, Catherine – The house at the edge of night
Benjamin, Chloe – The immortalists
Bennett, Brit – The vanishing half
Bowers, Cedar – Astra
Boyagoda, Randy – Original Prin
Brooks, Geraldine – Horse
Cameron, Claire – The last neanderthal
Chang, Janie The – Porcelain moon
Charles, Janet Skeslien – The Paris library
Christie, Michael – Greenwood
Clegg, Bill – Did you ever have a family
Clinton, Hilary R / Penny, Louise – State of terror
DeWitt, Patrick – The Librarianist
Dimaline, Cherie – Empire of Wild
Dunmore, Helen – Birdcage Walk
Dunning, Norma – Annie Muktuk and other stories
Edugyan, Esi – Washington Black
Egan, Jennifer – Manhattan Beach : a novel
El Akkad, Omar – What strange paradise
Fuller, Alexandra – Quiet until the thaw
Galgut, Damon – The promise : a novel
Garmus, Bonnie – Lessons in chemistry
Good, Michelle – Five little Indians
Gowda, Shilpi Somaya – The golden son
Greer, Andrew Sean – Less
Hamilton, Ian – The couturier of Milan
Hannah, Kristin – The four winds
Hannah, Kristin – The women
Hawtrey, Evie – And by fire
Henstra, Sarah – The red word
Heti, Sheila – Pure colour
Humphreys, Helen – Machine without horses
Jackson, Joshilyn – The opposite of everyone
Juby, Susan – A meditation on murder (SC FoWA 2024)
Karunatilaka, Shehan – The seven moons of Maali Almeida
Khan, Ausuma Zehanat – A dangerous crossing
Lambert, Shaena – Petra
Lynch, Paul – Prophet Song (Booker Prize 2023 Winner)
Macintyre, Linden – The only café
Mandel, Emily St. John – Sea of tranquility
Mayr, Suzette – The sleeping car porter
Moore, Graham – The last days of night
Moyes, Jojo – The giver of stars
Murray, Sheila – Finding Edward
Orwell, George – 1984
Osman, Richard – The Thursday Murder Club
Owens, Delia – Where the crawdads sing
Penny, Louise – A world of curiosities
Perrin, Valerie – Fresh water for flowers
Ramadan, Danny – The foghorn echoes
Redhill, Michael – Bellevue Square
Rijneveld, Marieke Lucan – The discomfort of evening
Robinson, Eden – Trickster drift
Robson, Jennifer – Goodnight from London
Saunders, George – Lincoln in the Bardo
Skenandore, Amanda – The second life of Mirielle West
Stuart, Douglas – Shuggie Bain
Thammavongsa, Souvankham – How to pronounce knife
Thapa, Manjushree – All of us in our own lives
Toews, Miriam – Fight night
Toews, Miriam – Women talking
Tokarczuk, Olga – Flights
Towles, Amor – A gentleman in Moscow
Towles, Amor – The Lincoln Highway
Van Pelt, Shelby – Remarkably bright creatures
Veletzos, Roxanne – The girl they left behind
Verghese, Abraham – Covenant of water
Vermette, Katherena – The break
Wagamese, Richard – Starlight
Whitehead, Joshua – Jonny Appleseed
Williams, Ian – Reproduction
Wingate, Lisa – Before we were yours
Winman, Sarah – Still life
Starting Your Own Book Club?
Visit the links below for information on how to get your own book club going:
- NoveList
Includes book reviews, read-alikes, author biographies and discussion questions. - GoodReads
Includes reader reviews, trivia, reading lists, etc. You can choose to sign up and share book lists. - BookClubs.ca
Focuses on Canadian titles and includes reading guides, information about author events, and books in the news. - BookTalk.org
An online book club that anyone can join. - Oprah’s Book Club
Includes recommended book lists, author interviews and more. - BookBrowse.com
Includes reviews, previews, stories behind the books, author interviews, reading guides, and more. - Mostly, we eat!
A long-running book club that includes recommended reads and advice on starting a book club.