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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
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
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.

Everyone is welcome at monthly meetings of Thursday Evening Book Club. Copies of book discussion titles are available on the 2nd floor near the study rooms.

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