How Book Club Kits Work

Kits contain 10 copies of one title and a discussion guide, unless otherwise noted. Kits can be found in the library catalog. When you request to place a hold, you will be prompted to contact the New Bern Library Reference Desk  at (252) 638-7807. Kits are signed out from the Reference Desk by a single person with an active Craven-Pamlico library card. Kits are returned by a single person and may not be returned without all 10 books. Checkout period is 6 weeks. A late fee of $1.00 is charged per day for overdue books. The replacement fine for each lost or damaged book is $15.00; and replacement of an entire kit is $150. Many of the titles may be available in large print, audio format, or as a movie. Search our library catalog to request a title in a different format.

Air You Breathe - Frances de Pontes Peebles
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo
All That She Carried - Tiya Miles
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
The Almost Sisters - Joshilyn Jackson
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
At Home In Mitford - Jan Karon
Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
The Barbizon: the Hotel That Set Women Free - Paulina Bren
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
A Bend in the Road - Nicholas Sparks
Best Friends Forever - Jennifer Weiner
The Bishops Wife - Mette Ivie Harrison
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bridges at Union Point by Les Pendleton
Carolina Built by Kianna Alexander
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
Cornerstones of the Carolina - Marilyn Stern
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Deacon King Kong - James McBride
Defending Jacob - William Landay
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
The Dragon Lady - Louisa Treger
Dry - Neal Shusterman
Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
Evening by Les Pendleton
Extra Virgin - Annie Hawes
Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Florence Adler Swims Forever - Rachel Beanland
Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
GaGa - Leslie Tall Manning
Game Changers by Art Chansky
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer
Heartland - Sarah Smarsch
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Hideaway - Lauren Denton
History of Love - Nicole Krauss
Home Front - Kristin Hannah
Hotel on Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus
How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
Invisible Imprints - Mary D’Agostino
Jade Dragon Mountain - Elsa Hart
Kabul Beauty School - Deborah Rodriguez
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Klara & the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren
Last Bus to Wisdom - Ivan Doig
The Last Thing He Ever Told Me - Laura Dave
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
The Library Book - Susan Orlean
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake - Anna Quindlen
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Maid - Nita Prose
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
March - Geraldine Brooks
Memorial Drive - Natasha Trethewey
Memory - Keeper’s Daughter - Kim Edwards
Miss Dreamsville & Collier Co. Women’s Lit. Society - Amy Hill Hearth
Money Rock by Pam Kelley
Monogamy - Sue Miller
My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry - Fredrik Backman
My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Nefertiti - Michelle Moran
Night Road - Kristin Hannah
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
October Sky - Homer Hickman, Jr.
Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout
Old In Art School - Nell Irvin Painter
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
On Writing - Stephen King
Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Paragon Hotel - Lyndsay Faye
The Paris Apartment - Lucy Foley
The Paris Orphan - Natasha Lester
The Passenger - Lisa Lutz
The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve
Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
Razorblade Tears - S.A. Crosby
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Adar Nafisi
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Remember: The Science of Memory by Lisa Genova
Riverman by Ben McGrath
The Rose Code - Kate Quinn
Same Beach, Next Year - Dorothea Benton Frank
Sarah’s Key - Tatianna de Rosnay
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Secret of Jenny’s Portrait - Kim Teague
The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott
Seven Days In June - Tia Williams
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
Silver Bay - Jo Jo Moyes
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The Speckled Beauty - Rick Bragg
The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali
Step It Up & Go! by David Menconi
Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
The Storied Life of AJ Fikry - Gabrielle Zevin
The Story of More - Hope Jahren
Stranger in the House - Shari Lapena
Sunday’s Child - Tom Lewis
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
The Survivors - Jane Harper
The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Velvet Was the Night - Silvia Moreno - Garcia
The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb
Walking Across Egypt - Clyde Edgerton
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi
The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
White Teeth - Zadie Smith
Widow Walk by Les Pendleto
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
The Woman They Could Not Silence - Kate Moore
Wonder of All Things - Jason Mott
The World That We Knew - Alice Hoffman
World’s Strongest Librarian - Josh Hanagarne
Zookeeper’s Wife - Diane Ackerman