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

A Burning by Megha Majumdar

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

Becoming by Michelle Obama

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

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Guest List by Lucy Foley

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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

What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster

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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