Regular Book Discussion Kits Available

Genres: Biography/Autobiography, Christian Fiction, Classics, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Kentucky Authors, Love Stories , Mystery/Suspense, Non-Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror, Softer Selections, Westerns

The State Library owns these Regular Book Discussion Kits:

Biography/Autobiography

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl translated from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday
Bone Black by bell hooks
Boone, a biography by Robert Morgan
Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall
Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe
Seabiscuit, an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Christian Fiction:

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright

Classics

Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl translated from the Dutch by B.M. Mooyaart-Doubleday
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

General Fiction

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani
Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright
The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Come Walk With Me by Joan Medlicott
The Conjurer's Bird, a novel by Martin Davies
Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles
Exodus by Leon Uris
Four Spirits, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
March by Geraldine Brooks
Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Pope Joan, a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
River of Earth by James Still
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
To Dance With the White Dog, a Novel of Life, Loss, Mystery, and Hope by Terry Kay
Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Wish You Well by David Baldacci

Historical Fiction

Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie ; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
The Conjurer's Bird, a novel by Martin Davies
Exodus by Leon Uris
Four Spirits, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
March by Geraldine Brooks
Pope Joan, a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

History

House of Abraham, Lincoln and the Todds, a family divided by war by Stephen Berry
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott
Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong
Seabiscuit, an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kentucky Authors or about Kentucky

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton
Bone Black by bell hooks
Boone, a biography by Robert Morgan
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles
House of Abraham, Lincoln and the Todds, a family divided by war by Stephen Berry
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott
Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
A Jesse Stuart Reader, selected and introduced by Jesse Stuart
Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
No Man Is An Island by Thomas Merton
Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
River of Earth by James Still
Sue Mundy, a novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor

Love Stories

Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani
Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman

Mystery/Suspense

A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
Step On A Crack by James Patterson

Non-Fiction

The Botany of Desire: a Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Dead Man Walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean

Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror

I am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Softer Selections

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright
The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank
Come Walk With Me by Joan Medlicott
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Westerns

The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss