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Explore Our Book Club Selections!

dlr Libraries has a variety of book clubs in our branches branches, each with its own style and focus. Whether you're into fiction, history, mysteries, or current events, there’s a club for you. Each one offers a selection of books chosen to spark great conversations, share new ideas, and connect our community.

So if you’re ready to enjoy a gripping novel, explore a memoir, or discuss eye-opening nonfiction, we have a club – and a book – for you. Join in, meet other readers, and find your next favourite book!

Top 15 Book Club Choices for 2023

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue by V.E. Schwab

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller

This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay

Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

Top 10 Book Club Choices for 2022

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 

Nora by Nuala O' Connor 

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

The Magician by Colm Toibin 

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Actress by Anne Enright

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne

The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri 

Top 10 Book Club Choices for 2019

Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier

The Shoemaker and his Daughter by Conor O'Clery

Educated by Tara Westover

Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter

Middle England by Jonathan Coe

Dear Mrs.Bird by A.J Pearce

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

 

Top 10 Book Club Choices for 2018

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E.Frankl

Naming the Stars by Jennifer Johnston

The Long Gaze Back by Sinead Gleeson

In Patagoniaby Bruce Chatwin

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Red Noticeby Bill Bowder

Top 10 Book Club Choices for 2017

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street by Hilary Mantel

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee

Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

The Tie that Binds by Kent Haruf

Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel

Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell

Top 15 Book Club Choices for 2016

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

The Narrow Road to the North by  Richard Flanagan

Fallen by Lia Mills

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

My name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

The Thing about December by Donal Ryan

Garden of Evening Mists byTan Twan Eng

A Spool of Blue Thread by Ann Tyler

I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

The invention of wings by Sue Monk Kidd

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

The goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Girl on the train by Paula Hawkins

Top 10 Book Club Choices for 2015

The Undertaking by Audrey Magee

Academy Street by Mary Costello

The Unlikely Polgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

Stone by John Williams

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

The Cold Eye of Heaven by Christine Dwyer Hickey

The Miniaturist by Jessie Bruton

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