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Book Club in a Bag

Do you have a book club that is looking for their next read? Or would you like to start a book club but don't know where to start? Then check out our Book Club in a Bag kits!

Each kit comes in a sturdy bag that includes 6 copies of the same book (or 8 different books of the same subject for the theme kits), a tip sheet on how to start a book club, discussion questions, and a sheet to help keep track of each book.

Check the availability of a kit and/or place a hold today.

We also have kits for teens!

Current Book Club in a Bag Kits:

Tell me everything, by Elizabeth Strout
First lie wins, by Ashley Elston
Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
Our Missing Hearts, by Celeste Ng
The Women, by Kristin Hannah
The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown
Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver
Lessons in chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
Someone else
Dreamland, by Nicholas Sparks
The cat who saved books, by Sōsuke Natsukawa
Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult
The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley
The one hundred years of Lenni and Margot, by Marianne Cronin
The Last thing he told me, by Laura Dave
The Mayfair bookshop, by Eliza Knight
The Lincoln highway, by Amor Towles
The rose code, by Kate Quinn
That summer, by Jennifer Weiner
Fuzz: when nature breaks the law, by Mary Roach
Such a fun age, by Kiley	Reid
Anxious people, by Fredrik Backman
The Diamond Eye, by Kate Quinn
Before we were yours, by Lisa Wingate
The reckoning, by John Grisham
Reckless Girls, by Rachel Hawkins
The four winds, by Kristin Hannah
The giver of stars, by Jojo Moyes
The body keeps the score, by Bessel A. Van der Kolk
The lost girls of Paris, by Pam Jenoff
Mrs. Everything, by Jennifer Weiner
The Dutch house, by Ann Patchett
The story of more, by Hope Jahren
All the light we cannot see, by Anthony Doerr
The witch elm, by Tana French
Go set a watchman, by Harper Lee
We are the weather, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Exploration Book Club bag
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Braiding sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The chef, by James Patterson
Clock dance, by Anne Tyler
Drawdown, by Paul Hawken, editor
Every breath, by Nicholas Sparks
A gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Kiss the ground, by Joshua Tickell
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
Nine perfect strangers, by Liane Moriarty
Where the crawdads sing, by Delia Owens
The girls of Atomic City, by Denise Kiernan
Firekeeper
The book thief, by Markus Zusak
The hate u give, by Angie Thomas
Shadow and bone, by Leigh Bardugo
We were liars, by E. Lockhart

FAQs

Each bag contains 6 copies of the same book (or 8 different books of the same subject for the theme kits), a tip sheet on how to start a book club, discussion questions, a list of FAQ's and a tracking sheet so your book club can keep track of who has each numbered book.

Book Club in a Bag kits have an extended check out period of six weeks, and they can be renewed.

Yes, all El Dorado County kits can be requested using the library catalog or you can call your local library for assistance.

Please return the entire Book Club in a Bag kit to the library service desk. Do not put them into the library's drop boxes.

Yes, overdue fines are $0.25 per day per item/kit up to a maximum of $5 per item/kit.

Use the library catalog or Link+ to request more copies of a title as needed.