Book Club Services
Reading Suggestions
Having trouble determining what book to discuss next?
Book Discussion Guides
With a week’s notice the Adult Department can produce a guide that contains biographical materials, reviews, criticisms, and questions designed to spark a lively discussion. For more information, please contact the Readers’ Advisory Librarian.
Book Bundles
Bundles are sets of ten book-club friendly titles owned by the Glen Ellyn Public Library and made available exclusively to Glen Ellyn book clubs. Please contact the Readers’ Advisory Librarian for availability. Our current bundles include
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Costalegre by Courtney Maum
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Educated by Tara Westover
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Book Club Book Request
If we don’t already have a bundle for your title, we can gather books for your book club. Please fill out the form below and email our Reader’s Advisory Librarian with any questions.