Do you or the members of your reading group have trouble getting hold of the chosen book at the right time?   Then come to the Bernards Township Library and grab a “Book Group To-Go” bag with everything your book group needs.   Totes are filled with multiple copies of a book that has been used by one of the Library’s book discussion groups.   Also included is a Reading Discussion Guide, reviews of the book, and biographical information about the author.   A member of your group can check out the tote for a month and all can enjoy a memorable and hassle-free book discussion.

Book Group To-Go Kits @ the Bernards Township Library

Grab a Book Group To-Go Kit with everything your book group needs to enjoy a memorable and hassle-free book discussion.

• One person can check out the kit for the entire group.
• Anybody with a library card valid at Bernards Township Library can check out the kit.
• Checkout period will be 28 days.
• Two renewals will be allowed.

Book Group To-Go Kits are available for the following titles

TITLE/AUTHOR/COPIES IN KIT

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/ Mark Twain/6
• After Rain/William Trevor/6
• Alias Grace/Margaret Atwood/5
• An American Childhood/Annie Dillard/5
• Atonement/Ian McEwan/5
• Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress/Sijie Dai/7
• Corelli’s Mandolin/Louis De Bernières/5
• Dubliners/James Joyce/7
• East of Eden/John Steinbeck/6
• Eat, Pray, love/ Elizabeth Gilbert/5
• The Girl with a Pearl Earring/Tracy Chevalier/5
• The Grapes of Wrath/John Steinbeck/5
• Inheritance of Loss/ Kiran Desai/8
• Life of Pi/Yann Martel/6
• Light in August/William Faulkner/6
• Love in the Time of Cholera/Gabriel Garcia Marquez/6
• Madame Bovary/Gustave Flaubert/5
• Memoirs of a Geisha/Arthur Golden/7
• Middlemarch/George Eliot/9
• The Name of the Rose/ Umberto Eco/5
• O Pioneers!/Willa Cather/6
• Reading Lolita in Tehran/Azar Nafisi/5
• The Shipping News/Annie Proulx/6
• The Sound and the Fury/William Faulkner/7
• Their Eyes were Watching God/Zora Neale Hurston/6
• The Time Traveler’s Wife/Audrey Niffenegger /9
• To Kill a Mockingbird/Harper Lee/7
• Unless/Carol Shields/7
• Waiting/Ha Jin/6

Check out these Websites for book group pointers, discussion guides and book suggestions.

• Bookspot:   Share the experience of other book clubs, read reviews & lists of suggested titles.
• Novelist Plus:   Find titles similar to ones you’ve read, read Book Discussion Guides & more.
• Reading Group Choices:   Get great advice, ideas, discussion guides, & a monthly newsletter.
• Washington Center for the Book:   Enjoy a huge annotated list of books recommended for discussion.