Book Group Sets for hire 2013
Book Group Titles available for Loan by Community Book Groups
These items are available for a five week borrowing period.
- Each set (or part thereof) costs $34.00 to hire.
- Community book groups must register with Hobsons Bay Libraries for book group membership card before hiring sets.
- Each set contains 10 items only.
- Please direct enquiries to Bernadette Thomson (9932 2051).
To assist you in selecting titles or identifying discussion questions for a book group please visit one of these online resources, or speak to Library Staff.
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| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Alchemist | Coehlo, Paul |
| Alchemists daughter | McMahon, Katharine |
| Almost French | Turnbull, Sara |
| Atonement | McEwan, Ian |
| Blood Brothers: justice at last | Bowles, Robin |
| Boat, The | Le, Nam |
| Bone by bone | Johnston, Tony |
| Book thief | Zusak, Markus |
| Borrower, The | Makkai, Rebecca |
| Boy in the striped pyjamas, The | Boyne, John |
| Breath | Winton, Tim |
| Bride Stripped Bare | Gemmell, Nikki |
| Broken shore, The | Temple, Peter |
| Caleb's crossing | Brooks, Geraldine |
| Carpentaria | Wright, Alexis |
| Cartographer, The | Twohig, Peter |
| Cold Mountain | Frazier, Charles |
| Confederacy of dunces, A | Toole, John Kennedy |
| Contract, The | Hoffman, Brett |
| Cooee | Kelly, Vivienne |
| Curious incident of the dog in the night-time, The | Haddon, Mark |
| Digger's Rest Hotel, The | McGeachin, Geoffrey |
| Dressmaker, The | Ham, Rosalie |
| Drown them in the sea | Angel, Nicholas |
| Earthly delights | Greenwood, Kerry |
| Eat, pray,love | Gilbert, Elizabeth |
| Elegance of the hedgehog | Barbery, Muriel |
| Exposure: a journey | Magarey, Joel |
| Eye Contact | McGovern, Cammie |
| Far from the Madding crowd | Hardy, Thomas |
| Foal's bread | Mears, Gillian |
| Franklin and Eleanor | Rowley, Hazel |
| Garden of evening mists, The | Tan, Twan Eng |
| Garlic and Sapphires | Reichl, Ruth |
| Gathering, The | Enright, Anne |
| Getting of wisdom, The | Richardson, Henry Handel |
| Ghost train to the Eastern star | Theroux, Paul |
| Girl with a pearl earring | Chevalier, Tracy |
| Good murder | Gott, Robert |
| Great Gatsby, The | Fitzgerald, F. Scott |
| Guernsey literary and potato peel pie Society, The | Schaffer, Mary Ann |
| Guide to the birds of East Africa, A | Drayson, Nicholas |
| Help, The | Stockett, Kathryn |
| Hotel on the corner of Bitter and Sweet, The | Ford, Jamie |
| Hundred year old man who climbed out of the window | Jonasson, Jonas |
| Hunger games, The | Collins, Suzanne |
| Indelible ink | McGregor, Fiona |
| In my skin | Holden, Kate |
| Infiltration | McLaren, Colin |
| Jane Austen Book Club | Fowler, Karen Joy |
| Joe Cinques Consolation | Garner, Helen |
| Kitchen confidential | Bourdain, Anthony |
| Kite runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| Landscape of farewell | Miller, Alex |
| Last Picture Show man | Larry McMurty |
| Life of Pi, The | Martel, Yann |
| Little stranger, A | Waters, Sarah |
| Look Who’s Morphing | Cho, Tom |
| Lost Mother, The | Summers, Anne |
| Love in the time of cholera | Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
| Lovely bones, The | Sebold, Alice |
| Lovesong | Miller, Alex |
| March | Brooks, Geraldine |
| Measure of a Man, The | Poitier, Sidney |
| Memory Keeper’s Daughter, The | Edwards, Kim |
| Midwives | Bohjalian, Chris |
| Mister Pip | Jones, Lloyd |
| More twisted | Deaver, Jeffrey |
| Museum of innocence | Pamuk, Orham |
| My brother Jack | Johnston, George |
| My Sisters Keeper | Picoult, Jodi |
| Night circus | Morgenstern, Erin |
| No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, The | McCall-Smith, Alexander |
| Not in the flesh | Rendell, Ruth |
| Not meeting Mr Right | Heiss, Anita |
| On Beauty | Smith, Zadie |
| On, Off | McCullough, Colleen |
| One good turn | Atkinson, Kate |
| Out of the silence | James, Wendy |
| Over the other side: from Williamstown to the world | Warner, Peggy |
| People of the Book | Brooks, Geraldine |
| Persuasion - | Austen, Jane |
| Piano lessons | Goldsworthy, Anna |
| Piano Tuner, The | Mason, Daniel |
| Pickwick papers | Dickens, Charles |
| Playing for pizza | Grisham, John |
| Poisonwood bible | Kingsolver, Barbara |
| Ransom | Malouf, David |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Nafisi, Azar |
| Red Tent ,The | Diament, Anita |
| Redback | Cameron, Lindy |
| Road, The | McCarthy, Cormac |
| Romulus my father | Gaita, Raimond |
| Running with scissors | Burroughs, Augusten |
| Salvation Creek | Duncan, Susan |
| Sea , The | Banville, John |
| shadow of the wind,The | Zafon Carlos, Ruiz |
| Shantaram | Roberts, Gregory |
| Shearwater | Mayes, Andrea |
| Sideways: travels with Kafka, Hunter S and Kerouac | O’Neil, Patrick |
| Sizzling sixteen | Evanovich, Janet |
| Slap, The | Tsiolkas, Christos |
| Solar | Mcewan, Ian |
| Sold | Gullifer, Brendan |
| Space Between Us, The | Umrigar, Trinity |
| Speech of angels | Maas, Sharon |
| Strangers | Yamada, Taichi |
| T is for Trespass | Grafton, Sue |
| Tatiana’s table | Simons, Paullina |
| Tea house on Mulberry Street , The | Owens, Sharon |
| Things We Didn’t See Coming | Amsterdam, Steven |
| This is How | Hyland, MJ |
| Those Faraday girls | McInerney, Monica |
| Thousand splendid suns, A | Hosseini, Khaled |
| Three cups of tea | Mortenson, Greg |
| Time Traveler's wife, The | Niffenegger, Audrey |
| Time we have taken, The | Carroll, Steven |
| To kill a mocking bird | Lee, Harper |
| Traveling with pomegranates | Kidd, Susan Monk |
| Trout opera | Condon, Matthew |
| Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson | Albom, Mitch |
| Turning, The | Winton, Tim |
| Unparalleled Sorrow | Dickins, Barry |
| Unpolished gem | Pung, Alice |
| Visit from the goon squad | Egan, Jennifer |
| We bought a zoo | Mee, Benjamin |
| When in Rome | Green, Penelope |
| White Teeth | Smith, Zadie |