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Library Sponsored Book Clubs

BTPL Book Groups

All library-sponsored book groups are open to new members who are residents of Bloomfield Township. One month before the first fall meeting of each group, registration is open to Township Residents.  Registration continues until one week before the first meeting, at which time, others may join until we have filled the group. 

 


BTPL Book Club Lists

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Bloomfield Township Public Library – Book Clubs -- 2010/2011
 
Random Readers - open to everyone - meets September 17 and November 19
 
Great Books reading lists - click here
 


Book Club Collection

Book Club Titles

* Available in September, 2011

Adiga - The White Tiger
Agee - A Death in the Family
Banks - The Darling
Barbery - Elegance of the Hedgehog
*Benioff - City of Thieves
Brooks - Year of Wonders
*Christensen - Great Man
Desai - Inheritance of Loss
Diamond - Guns, Germs & Steel 
Doig – The Whistling Season
Drabble - Peppered Moth 
Engler -Peace Like a River
Ford - Independence Day
Goodwin - Team of Rivals
Greene - The End of the Affair
Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Helprin - Winter's Tale
Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls
Hosseini - Kite Runner
Huxley - Brave New World
James - Wings of the Dove
*Jansson - True Deceivers
Kidd - Secret Life of Bees
Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible
Lahiri - Namesake
La Pierre - Artemisia
Lawson - Crow Lake
*Mawer - Glass Room
McCarthy - The Road
*Millard - River of Doubt
Mistry - A Fine Balance
*Munro - Too Much Happiness
Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nemirovsky - Suite Francaise
*O'Neill - Netherland
Pamuk - Snow
Petterson - Out Stealing Horses
Robinson - Gilead
Ruiz-Safon – Shadow of the Wind
Sebald – Austerlitz
See – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Standage – History of the World in Six Glasses
Steinbeck - East of Eden
*Steinhardt - Violin Dreams
Stewart - Places in Between
*Toibin - Brooklyn
*Verghese - Cutting for Stone
Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
*Wallace - Broom of the System
*Williams - Stoner
Waugh- Handful of Dust
Wolff - Old School
Zuzak - Book Thief
 

 

Community Book Club Resources

Online Resources

Some online resources you might find useful when researching a book for your group:

 

Amazon  Includes literary reviews and readers' comments.

 

FreeBookNotes  Variety of free book summaries, literature notes, and study guides for over 250 books.