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Book Club Picks
Currently in a book club and looking for titles to propose at your next meeting? Interested in finding multiple copies of a well-written, discussion worthy book but looking for a less formal option than our book club kits? We’ve got you covered with our Book Club Picks Collection!
We’re offering multiple copies of titles which have been previously read in our six library book clubs. Books check out for the regular 3-week period, and can be requested by calling the reference desk (415) 389-4292 x3. Or, you can simply stop by and check them out in person!
You can view our fiction and nonfiction book club picks in our catalog.
Our previous picks (alphabetical by title)
A Burning by Megha Majumdar - 9 copies
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn - 6 copies
All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski - 6 copies
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar - 9 copies
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel by Christy Lefteri - 13 copies
The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting - 10 copies
The Bluest Eye: A Novel by Toni Morrison - 8 copies
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson - 8 copies
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez - 8 copies
The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall - 6 copies
Burr: A Novel by Gore Vidal - 8 copies
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton - 8 copies
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson - 9 copies
The Centaur by John Updike - 8 copies
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine - 10 copies
Crooked House by Agatha Christie - 8 copies
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry - 8 copies
The Devil in The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson - 6 copies
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara - 10 copies
Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano - 8 copies
Eventide by Therese Bohman - 8 copies
Fight No More by Lydia Millet - 7 copies
The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal - 8 copies
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue - 10 copies
Howards End by E. M. Forster - 10 copies
Huck Out West by Robert Coover - 8 copies
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman - 9 copies
"I Heard You Paint Houses” : Frank ‘the Irishman’ Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt -10 copies
Inland: A Novel by Téa Obreht - 8 copies
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - 7 copies
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson - 5 copies
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson - 10 copies
Kindred by Octavia Butler - 6 copies
Lake Success: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart - 8 copies
The Leavers: A Novel by Lisa Ko - 8 copies
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA by Amaryllis Fox - 6 copies
Lives Other Than My Own by Emmanuel Carrere - 7 copies
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell - 8 copies
Man of My Time by Dalia Sofer - 13 copies
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb - 8 copies
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa - 9 copies
Mill Town: Reckoning With What Remains by Kerri Arsenault - 10 copies
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates - 9 copies
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander - 8 copies
The Night Watchman: A Novel by Louise Erdich - 8 copies
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick - 15 copies
OMG WTF Does the Constitution Actually Say? : A Non-boring Guide to How Our Democracy is Supposed to Work by Ben Sheehan - 12 copies
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder - 12 copies
Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows and Deborah Fallows - 10 copies
Palimpsest: A Memoir by Gore Vidal - 6 copies
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - 5 copies
The Round House by Louise Erdrich - 8 copies
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe - 8 copies
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar - 8 copies
Shuggie Bain: A Novel by Douglas Stuart - 7 copies
Simon the Fiddler: A Novel by Paulette Jiles - 8 copies
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby - 14 copies
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson - 2 copies
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner - 8 copies
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler - 7 copies
Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo - 7 copies
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule - 9 copies
Them: Why We Hate Each Other -- and How to Heal by Ben Sasse - 11 copies
There There by Tommy Orange - 8 copies
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone - 3 copies
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - 6 copies
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez - 5 copies
We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships by Kat Vellos - 9 copies
What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism by Dan Rather & Elliot Kirschner - 12 copies
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism by Robin DiAngelo - 8 copies
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch - 10 copies
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom - 10 copies
You’re Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why it Matters by Kate Murphy - 11 copies