Book Club Kits

In a book club or thinking about starting your own book club? Then try a Book Club Kit from the Royal Oak Public Library! 

These ready-to-go kits contain anywhere from 6-12 copies of a popular book in a convenient blue bag complete with a synopsis of the book.  

A plethora of titles and genres are available to choose from including Sci-Fi, Thrillers, Biographies, Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, and more!  

Checkout period is 9 weeks.

Kits are located behind the Adult Non-Fiction shelves near the Adult Study Rooms. 

See the full list of available titles below:

Biographies

The Glass Castle- by: Jeanette Walls (9 books)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- by: Maya Angelou (10 books)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Locks – by: Rebecca Skloot (12 books)

A Man's Place- by: Annie Ernaux (8 books)

Mornings on Horseback – by: David McCullough (10 books)

The Professor and the Madman- by: Simon Winchester (10 books)

Raising Hare- by: Chloe Dalton (9 books)

Reading Lolita in Tehran – by: Azar Nafisi (9 books)

The Tender Bar – by: J.R. Moehringer (8 books)

We Will Be Jaguars- by: Nemonte Nenquimo (8 books)

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Non-Fiction

Braiding Sweetgrass – by: Robin Kimmerer (9 books)

The Boys in the Boat – by: Daniel Brown (10 books)

The Destiny of The Republic by: Candice Millard (8 books)

The Devil in the White City – by: Erik Larson (11 books)

Everything is Tuberculosis- by: John Green (8 books)

From Here to Eternity – by: Caitlin Doughty (10 books)

Killers of the Flower Moon – by: David Grann (12 books)

The Lady and the Panda – by: Vicki Croke (6 books)

Medicine River- by: Mary Annette Pember (9 books)

MODOC - by: Ralph Helfer (8 books)

Radium Girls- by: Kate Moore (10 books)

The Sea Captain's Wife- by: Tilar J. Mazzeo (8 books)

Seabiscuit: An American Legend – by: Laura Hillenbrand (8 books)

White Fragility – by: Robin DiAngelo (10 books)

We Should All be Feminists – by: Chamamanda Adichie (10 books)

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Fiction

Alchemist – by: Paulo Coelho (11 books)

The Bluest Eye – by: Toni Morrison (10 books)

Balzac and the Little Chinese – by: Ina Sijjie (7 books)

Chain Gang All-Stars- by: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (8 books)

Chemistry – by: Weike Wang (9 books)

Circe – by: Madeline Miller (10 books)

Culpability- by: Bruce Holsinger (8 books)

Cursed Daughters- by: Oyinkan Braithwaite (8 books)

Daisy Jones & the Six – by: Taylor Jenkins Reid (11 books)

The Dream Hotel – by: Laila Lalami (8 books)

The Emperor of Gladness -by: Ocean Vuong (8 books)

Firekeepers Daughter – by: Angeline Boulley (7 books)

First Lie Wins – by: Ashley Elston (10 books)

Giovanni's Room- by: James Baldwin (10 books)

The Great Big Beautiful Life-by: Emily Henry (8 books)

The Great Gatsby – by: F. Scott Fitzgerald (10 books)

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – by: Mary Ann Shaffer (8 books)

The Guest List – by: Lucy Foley (11 books)

The Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy – by: Douglas Adams (10 books)

The House on Mango Street – by: Sandra Cisneros (11 books)

In the Woods by: Tana French (8 books)

The Island of Missing Trees by: Elif Shafak (8 books)

Isola – by: Allegra Goodman (8 books)

It Ends with Us – by: Colleen Hoover (11 books)

I Will Die in a Foreign Land – by: Kalani Pickhart (9 books)

Intuition – by: Allegra Goodman (6 books)

In the Lake of the Woods – by: Tim O’ Brien (7 books)

James – by: Percival Everett (8 books)

Klara and the Sun  by: Kazuo Ishiguro (8 books)

Love in the Time of Cholera – by: Gabriel Marquez (7 books)

Less – by: Andrew Sean Greer (10 books)

Mexican Gothic – by: Silvia Moreno Garcia (10 books)

My Sister, the Serial Killer – by: Oyinkan Braithwaite (10 books)

The Nickel Boys – by: Colson Whitehead (8 books)

The Night Watchman – by: Louise Erdrich (11 books)

The Nightingale – by: Kristin Hannah (6 books)

Orphan Train – by: Christina Kline (5 books)

The Personal Librarian – by: Marie Benedict (11 books)

The Phoenix Pencil Company - by: Allison King (8 books)

Project Hail Mary- by: Andy Weir (8 books)

The Rental House – by: Weike Wang (8 books)

The River is Waiting- by: Wally Lamb (8 books)

The Song of Achilles – by: Madeline Miller (10 books)

Small Island – by: Andrea Levy (8 books)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – by: Taylor Jenkins Reid (10 books)

The Tiger’s Wife – by: Tea Obreht (8 books)

There There – by: Tommy Orange (7 books)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz – by: Heather Morris (8 books)

To Kill a Mockingbird – by: Harper Lee (8 books)

The Vegetarian – by: Han Kang (10 books)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle – by: Shirley Jackson (10 books)

The Women of the Copper Country – by: Mary Russell (6 books)

Wicked – by: Gregory Maguire (8 books)

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