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Book Club Kits
Expand the options your book club has through CALS Book Club Kits, made possible by Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries. Request a kit to be sent to your branch for pickup. Kits contain copies of a title and a discussion guide, and can be checked out for six weeks. Click on the tabs below for available book titles.
What is a CALS Book Club Kit?
A book club kit is a handy canvas tote that holds:
- 10 paperback copies of one title and;
- 1 discussion guide to assist book club leaders.
How do I reserve a CALS Book Club kit?
Download and complete the Book Club Registration Form, then deliver or mail it to any branch of the Central Arkansas Library System.
What rules apply to a CALS Book Club Kit?
- Kits may be reserved up to a year in advance
- Kits are checked out to one person (must be 18 years or older) who will be responsible for returning it.
- Each book club kit will be checked out for 6 weeks. (Sorry, no renewals are allowed.)
- The complete kit must be returned to the Circulation Desk of any branch library during regular library hours. Do not use a book drop to return your kit.
- The fine for overdue book club kits is 10¢ per day per kit.
- If a kit is not returned, the replacement cost is $100. Replacement costs will be prorated for missing or damaged items.
Are there special requirements for the Juvenile/YA book kits?
We only require that an adult (18+) check out each book kit. Adult book clubs as well as book clubs for children and teens are encouraged to consider the award-winning literature offered through our Juvenile/YA book kit program.
As with all books your club selects, we recommend that a member of your group reads the book to see if it is a good fit for your club. To find out more about any selection, click “Check Library Catalog” below to view each CALS online catalog record.
For more information
To print a complete list of available book club kits, please choose from the lists below. For more information, contact CALS at bookkitsinfo@cals.org.
Available Titles
22 Britannia Road
by Amanda Hodgkinson
100-Year-Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
All Boys Aren’t Blue
by George M. Johnson
All Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion
by Fannie Flagg
All Over But The Shoutin’
by Rick Bragg
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
All the Missing Girls
by Megan Miranda
The Amateur Marriage
by Anne Tyler
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
by Barbara Kingsolver
The Arabian Nights
Wafa’ Tarnowska
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
The Aviator’s Wife
by Melanie Benjamin
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
Bastard Out Of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
by Amy Chua
Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Belgravia
by Julian Fellowes
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Book of Bright Ideas
by Sandra Kring
The Book of Lost Things
by John Connolly
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
The Bookmaker’s Daughter
by Shirley Abbott
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Bossypants
by Tina Fey
The Boston Girl
by Anita Diamant
The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel J. Brown
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brain on Fire
by Susannah Cahalan
Breakfast with Buddha
by Roland Merullo
Breathing Lessons
by Anne Tyler
Bringing Maggie Home
by Kim Vogel Sawyer
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
Caleb’s Crossing
by Geraldine Brooks
Call the Midwife
by Jennifer Worth
Camp Nine
by Vivienne Schiffer
Cantoras
by Carolina de Robertis
Carry On, Warrior
by Glennon Doyle Melton
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway
Central In Our Lives: Voices From Little Rock Central High School, 1957-1959
by Ralph G. Brodie
Cinderella Ate my Daughter
by Peggy Orenstein
Circe
by Madeline Miller
The Circle
by Dave Eggers
Circling the Sun
by Paula McLain
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
by Lynne Olson
The City of Ember
by Jeanne Duprau
Climbing the Mango Trees: a Memoir of a Childhood in India
by Madhur Jaffrey
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Color of Water
by James McBride
The Complete Stories
by Flannery O’Connor
The Condition
by Jennifer Haigh
Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
Confederates in the Attic
by Tony Horwitz
The Coral Thief
by Rebecca Stott
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
by Joy Harjo
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
Crossing The Line
by Bibi Belford
The Crying Tree
by Naseem Rakha
Cuckoo’s Calling
by Robert Galbraith (pen name of J.K. Rowling)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
Dad is Fat
by Jim Gaffigan
Daring Greatly
by Brené Brown
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Music, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
by Mara Leveritt
The Die is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861
edited by Mark Christ
The Dinner
by Herman Koch
The Dirty Life
by Kristin Kimball
Dispatches from Pluto
by Richard Grant
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
by Lucy Adlington
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Educated
by Tara Westover
Eighty-Dollar Champion
by Elizabeth Letts
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Muriel Barbery
Emma
by Jane Austen
Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C. Gywnne
Enemies: A Love Story
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
by Chris Cleave
Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
Exit West
by Moshin Hamid
Firefly Lane
by Kristin Hannah
Five Days at Memorial
by Sheri Fink
Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia
by Jennifer McGaha
Flight of Dreams
by Ariel Lawhon
Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
Fun Home
by Alison Bechdel
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
Garden Spells
by Sarah Addison Allen
Gender Queer
by Maria Kobabe
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
The Ginger Tree
by Oswald Wynd
The Glass Universe
by Dava Sobel
Going Away Shoes
by Jill McCorkle
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
by Mira Jacob
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
H is for Hawk
by Helen MacDonald
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Attwood
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
by David Treuer
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
by Paula Huntley
Her Daughter’s Dream
by Francine Rivers
Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
Her Mother’s Hope
by Francine Rivers
Here on Earth
by Alice Hoffman
The Heretic’s Daughter: A Novel
by Kathleen Kent
Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Valley Road
by Robert Kolker
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis
by J.D. Vance
History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
The Hours Count
by Jillian Cantor
The House in the Cerulean Sea
by TJ Klune
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
I am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai
Ida B. the Queen
by Michelle Duster
I Feel Bad About My Neck
by Nora Ephron
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
I Was Told There’d be Cake
by Sloane Crosley
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
In The Dream House
by Carmen Maria Machado
In the Garden of Beasts
by Erik Larson
In the Woods
by Tana French
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Into The Beautiful North
by Luis Alberto Urrea
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
by Wendy Mass
A Jewish Refugee in New York
by Kadya Molodovsky
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
The King’s Speech
by Mark Logue
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
Kitchens of the Great Midwest
by J. Ryan Stradal
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver
Land More Kind than Home
by Wiley Cash
Language of Flowers
by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Girls
by Lee Smith
Lawless
by Matt Bondurant
Lawn Boy
by Jonathan Evison
The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
Lessons In Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
Liberating Paris
by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson
The Life We Bury
by Allen Eskens
Light in the Ruins
by Chris Bohjalian
Lilac Girls
by Martha Hall Kelly
Little Bee
by Chris Cleave
Little Black Lies
by Sharon Bolton
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
Lone Wolf
by Jodi Picoult
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by David Grann
Lost in Shangri La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
Lucky Boy
by Shanthi Sekaran
The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
The Magician’s Elephant
by Kate DiCamillo
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
by Allison Pataki
Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will
by Stephanie Land
Maine
by J. Courtney Sullivan
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
by Helen Simonson
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
Manhunt: The 12-Day Hunt for Lincoln’s Killers
by James L. Swanson
March
by Geraldine Brooks
March, Book One
by John Lewis and Nate Powell
March, Book Two
by John Lewis and Nate Powell
March, Book Three
by John Lewis and Nate Powell
Maus
by Art Spiegelman
Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
The Middle Place
by Kelly Corrigan
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
by Ann B. Ross
The Mistress of Spices
by Chitra Divakaruni
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee
by Charles J. Shields
The Moonflower Vine: A Novel
by Jetta Carlton
Mostly Dead Things
by Kristen Arnett
Mrs. Everything
by Jennifer Weiner
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan
Murder in Matera
by Helene Stapinski
The Music Shop
by Rachel Joyce
My Dog Skip
by Willie Morris
My Life As An Experiment
by A. J. Jacobs
My Life in France
by Julia Child
The Namesake
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
by Elna Baker
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
The Night Circus
by Erin Morgenstern
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
Nine Parts of Desire
by Geraldine Brooks
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-first Century
by Jessica Bruder
North Toward Home
by Willie Morris
A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
Nothing to See Here
by Kevin Wilson
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
Olympus,Texas
by Stacey Swann
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
The Once and Future Witches
by Alix E. Harrow
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M. Marquez
Ordinary Grace
by William K. Krueger
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
The Other Typist
by Suzanne Rindell
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by Wes Moore
Outer Banks
by Anne Rivers Siddons
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
The Paying Guests
by Sarah Waters
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks
Perfect Peace
by Daniel Black
Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict
The Piano Tuner
by Daniel Mason
The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels
by Ree Drummond
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
by Terry Ryan
Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that can’t Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
Remarkable Creatures
by Tracy Chevalier
Rise: How A House Built A Family
by Cara Brookins
Room
by Emma Donoghue
The Rosie Project
by Graeme C. Simsion
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
Same Kind of Different as Me
by Ron Hall and Denver Moore, with Lynn Vincent
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Sarah’s Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
by Beth Hoffman
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Shack
by William P. Young
The Shadow Catcher
by Marianne Wiggins
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
by Kawai Strong Washburn
Short History of Women
by Kate Walbert
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
by Lindy West
Silver Linings Playbook
by Matthew Quick
Silver Sparrow
by Tayari Jones
Slaughterhouse Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Great Things
by Jodi Picoult
The Snow Child
by Eowyn Ivey
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Spool of Blue Thread
by Anne Tyler
A Star for Mrs. Blake
by April Smith
The Stars are Fire
by Anita Shreve
Still Life
by Louise Penny
Still Missing
by Chevy Stevens
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
by Gabrielle Zevin
Strength in What Remains
by Tracy Kidder
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Sugar
by Bernice McFadden
Sully : My Search for What Really Matters
by Chesley Sullenberger
Swamplandia!
by Karen Russell
Tender at the Bone
by Ruth Reichl
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor’s Son
by Sholem Aleichem
There, There
by Tommy Orange
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien
This is Where I Leave You
by Jonathan Tropper
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
The Tiger’s Wife
by Téa Obreht
The Time Traveler’s Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar
by Cheryl Strayed
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Wolfe
Too Much Happiness
by Alice Munro
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
Trials of the Earth: the True Story of a Pioneer Woman
by Mary M. Hamilton
True Grit
by Charles Portis
The Truth According to Us
by Annie Barrows
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
by Ayana Mathis
Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
by Martha S. Jones
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High
by Melba Beals
The Watchmen
by Alan Moore
Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
We Need to Talk about Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
The Wednesday Sisters
by Meg Waite Clayton
The Weird Sisters
by Eleanor Brown
What Alice Forgot
by Liane Moriarty
When All Is Said
by Anne Griffith
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
The Whistling Season
by Ivan Doig
Wicked
by Gregory Maguire
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
by Cheryl Strayed
The Windfall
by Diksha Basu
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
by Gary Paulsen
Wish you Well
by David Baldacci
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
by Elaine Weiss
Wonder
by R.J. Palacio
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Z: a Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Ann Fowler
The Zookeeper’s Wife
by Diane Ackerman