Regular Book Discussion Kits Available

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

The State Library owns these Regular Book Discussion Kits:

Biography/Autobiography

• 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
• 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
• Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

• Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
• The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles
• 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
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
• 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

Historical Fiction

• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• March by Geraldine Brooks
• Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor

History

• I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
• 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
• Bone Black by bell hooks
• Boone, a biography by Robert Morgan
• Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
• The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
• The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles
• 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
• Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
• A Jesse Stuart Reader, selected and introduced by Jesse Stuart
• The 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
• Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor

Love Stories

• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mystery/Suspense

• A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
• Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

Sci Fi/Fantasy/Horror

• I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Softer Selections

• Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry

Westerns

• The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss