With our Book Club Sets, it's easy to check out copies for your whole club.
Brooklyn Public Library loves book clubs, and gathering people around the shared experience of a book is central to our mission. Reading as a social activity prompts a deeper relationship with the books we love. To help foster the social experience of reading, we've made having a book club easier with our collection of Book Club Sets.
Features
Our Book Club Sets feature a collection of titles curated by our expert staff. These books have an extended loan period so you have more time to read and discuss with your group. If you're not part of a book club or want another opportunity to chat, BPL regularly hosts book discussion meetings for these titles.
- Book Club Sets contain 10–15 copies, which you can reserve individually or for your entire club (note that Book Club Sets are print books, not eBooks or eAudio)
- Titles check out for 60 days, providing time not only to read your selection, but to coordinate your discussion
- Titles are curated by our experienced staff and are chosen to promote lively discussion
Get Started
Click on a book title from the Book Club Sets list to reserve a copy. If you'd like to reserve multiple copies of a single title, ask for assistance from library staff.
Current Book Club Sets
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Staff Picks
- 2021-22 Book Club Set Collection
The thirty names of night [BOOK DISCUSSION]Zeyn Joukhadar
The vanishing half [BOOK DISCUSSION]Brit Bennett
Station eleven [BOOK DISCUSSION]Emily St John Mandel
Sour heart : stories [BOOK DISCUSSION]Jenny Zhang
Rising : dispatches from the new American shore [BOOK DISCUSSION]Elizabeth A Rush
Pachinko [BOOK DISCUSSION]Min Jin Lee
Orlando : a biography [BOOK DISCUSSION]Virginia Woolf
The midnight library [BOOK DISCUSSION]Matt Haig
Detransition, baby [BOOK DISCUSSION]Torrey Peters
A little devil in America : notes in praise of Black performance [BOOK DISCUSSION]Hanif Abdurraqib
Mexican Gothic [BOOK DISCUSSION]Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Juneteenth [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ralph Ellison
Interior Chinatown [BOOK DISCUSSION]Charles Yu
I contain multitudes : the microbes within us and a grander view of life [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ed Yong
Libertie [BOOK DISCUSSION]Kaitlyn Greenidge
New Yorkers : a city and its people in our time [BOOK DISCUSSION]Craig Taylor
The house in the cerulean sea [BOOK DISCUSSION]TJ Klune
Good talk : a memoir in conversations [BOOK DISCUSSION]Mira Jacob
Hell of a book : or the altogether factual, Wholly Bona Fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-Made Mad Kid [BOOK DISCUSSION]Jason Mott
The four winds [BOOK DISCUSSION]Kristin Hannah
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America [BOOK DISCUSSION]Richard Rothstein
The disordered cosmos : a journey into dark matter, spacetime, and dreams deferred [BOOK DISCUSSION]Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
The wild fox of Yemen : poems [BOOK DISCUSSION]Threa Almontaser
Dune [BOOK DISCUSSION]Frank Herbert
How we show up : reclaiming family, friendship, and communityMia Birdsong
The body is not an apology : the power of radical self-love [BOOK DISCUSSION]Sonya Renee Taylor
Luster [BOOK DISCUSSION]Raven Leilani
Braiding sweetgrass [BOOK DISCUSSION]Robin Wall Kimmerer
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake [BOOK DISCUSSION]Tiya Miles
Beautiful world, where are you [BOOK DISCUSSION]Sally Rooney
Homegoing [BOOK DISCUSSION]Yaa Gyasi
We do this 'til we free us : abolitionist organizing and transforming justice : [BOOK DISCUSSION]Mariame Kaba
A place for us [BOOK DISCUSSION]Fatima Farheen Mirza
Another Brooklyn [BOOK DISCUSSION]Jacqueline Woodson
Bad feminist [BOOK DISCUSSION] : essaysRoxane Gay
Between the world and me [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ta-Nehisi Coates
Behold the dreamers [BOOK DISCUSSION]Imbolo Mbue
Breath, eyes, memory [BOOK DISCUSSION]Edwidge Danticat
Brown girl, brownstones [BOOK DISCUSSION]Paule Marshall
The warmth of other suns [BOOK DISCUSSION] : the epic story of America's great migrationIsabel Wilkerson
Caste : the origins of our discontents [BOOK DISCUSSION]Isabel Wilkerson
Citizen [BOOK DISCUSSION] : an American lyricClaudia Rankine
Circle mirror transformation [BOOK DISCUSSION]Annie Baker
Delicious foods [BOOK DISCUSSION]James Hannaham
Dept. of speculation [BOOK DISCUSSION]Jenny Offill
Dreamland [BOOK DISCUSSION] : the true tale of America's opiate epidemicSam Quinones
Electric arches [BOOK DISCUSSION]Eve L Ewing
Exit west [BOOK DISCUSSION]Mohsin Hamid
Evicted [BOOK DISCUSSION] : poverty and profit in the American cityMatthew Desmond
Free food for millionaires [BOOK DISCUSSION]Min Jin Lee
Ghachar ghochar [BOOK DISCUSSION]Vivēka Śānabhāga
Gilead [BOOK DISCUSSION]Marilynne Robinson
Gods of jade and shadow [BOOK DISCUSSION]Silvia Moreno-Garcia
H is for Hawk [BOOK DISCUSSION]Helen Macdonald
How we fight for our lives [BOOK DISCUSSION] : a memoirSaeed Jones
If Beale Street could talk [BOOK DISCUSSION]James Baldwin
Interpreter of maladies [BOOK DISCUSSION] : storiesJhumpa Lahiri
It can't happen here [BOOK DISCUSSION]Sinclair Lewis
Jazz [BOOK DISCUSSION]Toni Morrison
Janesville [BOOK DISCUSSION] : an American storyAmy Goldstein
Killers of the Flower Moon [BOOK DISCUSSION] : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBIDavid Grann
Manchild in the promised land [BOOK DISCUSSION]Claude Brown
Moshi Moshi [BOOK DISCUSSION]Banana Yoshimoto
Never let me go [BOOK DISCUSSION]Kazuo Ishiguro
Nilda [BOOK DISCUSSION]Nicholasa Mohr
No justice in the shadows : how America criminalizes immigrants [BOOK DISCUSSION]Alina Das
On Earth we're briefly gorgeous [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ocean Vuong
On tyranny [BOOK DISCUSSION] : twenty lessons from the twentieth centuryTimothy Snyder
Open city [BOOK DISCUSSION]Teju Cole
Parable of the sower [BOOK DISCUSSION]Octavia E Butler
Postcolonial love poem [BOOK DISCUSSION]Natalie Diaz
Please look after mom [BOOK DISCUSSION]Kyŏng-suk Sin
Race after technology [BOOK DISCUSSION] : abolitionist tools for the new Jim codeRuha Benjamin
Tabloid city [BOOK DISCUSSION]Pete Hamill
The Brooklyn follies[BOOK DISCUSSION]Paul Auster
The Odyssey [BOOK DISCUSSION]author Homer
The black book [BOOK DISCUSSION]Orhan Pamuk
The changeling [BOOK DISCUSSION]Victor LaValle
The corpse washer [BOOK DISCUSSION]Sinan Antoon
The deep [BOOK DISCUSSION]Rivers Solomon
The dispossessed [BOOK DISCUSSION] : an ambiguous UtopiaUrsula K Le Guin
The dream of Scipio [BOOK DISCUSSION]Iain Pears
The empathy exams [BOOK DISCUSSION] : essaysLeslie Jamison
The flamethrowers [BOOK DISCUSSION]Rachel Kushner
The god of small things [BOOK DISCUSSION]Arundhati Roy
The handmaid's tale [BOOK DISCUSSION] ; with a new introduction by the author.Margaret Atwood
The impossible fairy tale [BOOK DISCUSSION]Yu-ju Han
The left hand of darkness [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ursula K Le Guin
The little disturbances of man [BOOK DISCUSSION]Grace Paley
The outlaw ocean [BOOK DISCUSSION] : journeys across the last untamed frontierIan Urbina
The power [BOOK DISCUSSION]Naomi Alderman
The sixth extinction [BOOK DISCUSSION] : an unnatural historyElizabeth Kolbert
The space between us [BOOK DISCUSSION]Thrity N Umrigar
The underground railroad [BOOK DISCUSSION]Colson Whitehead
This is how you lose the time war [BOOK DISCUSSION]Amal El-Mohtar
Underground airlines [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ben H Winters
What it means when a man falls from the Sky [BOOK DISCUSSION]Lesley Nneka Arimah
When I was Puerto Rican [BOOK DISCUSSION] : [a memoir]Esmeralda Santiago
Pedro's theory : reimagining the promised land [BOOK DISCUSSION]Marcos Gonsalez
White tears [BOOK DISCUSSION]Hari Kunzru
So you want to talk about race [BOOK DISCUSSION]Ijeoma Oluo
The mothers [BOOK DISCUSSION]Brit Bennett
Anything is possible [BOOK DISCUSSION]Elizabeth Strout
A crack in creation [BOOK DISCUSSION] : gene editing and the unthinkable power to control evolutionJennifer A Doudna
A hope more powerful than the sea [BOOK DISCUSSION] : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survivalMelissa Fleming
As we are now [BOOK DISCUSSION]May Sarton
Sing, unburied, sing [BOOK DISCUSSION]Jesmyn Ward
Swing time [BOOK DISCUSSION]Zadie Smith
Conflict is not abuse : overstating harm, community responsibility, and the duty of repair [BOOK DISCUSSION]Sarah Schulman
Dying [BOOK DISCUSSION] : a memoirCory Taylor
Howards End [BOOK DISCUSSION]E M Forster
Lucy [BOOK DISCUSSION]Jamaica Kincaid
The unwinding [BOOK DISCUSSION] : an inner history of the new AmericaGeorge Packer
Notes from no man's land [BOOK DISCUSSION] : american essaysEula Biss
One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter [BOOK DISCUSSION]Scaachi Koul
The intuitionist [BOOK DISCUSSION]Colson Whitehead