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

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

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

Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.

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Discussion Guides
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