Book Discussion Picks
Here's a selection of great titles from our many book discussion groups across CADL.
General Fiction:
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Push by Sapphire
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann
Shaffer
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Art of Racing In the Rain by Garth Stein
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
A Short History of
Women by Kate Walbert
Historical Picks:
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Run by Ann Patchett
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Mysteries:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
In the Woods by Tana French
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
Little Scarlet by Walter Mosley
Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
Speculative Fiction Picks:
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Horns by Joe Hill
Left Hand of
Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
The City and the City by China Miéville
The City of Pearl by
Karen R. Traviss
Younger Readers
The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian by Sherman
Alexie
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Hunger Games by
Suzanne Collins
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
A Wish After
Midnight by Zetta Elliott
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Non-Fiction Picks
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
Here If You Need Me by Kate Baestrup
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Born On A Blue Day:
Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant by Daniel
Tammet

