What is a Book Club Kit?
We want to make life a little easier for your book club. We have prepared Book Club Kits: bags that contain 10 copies of the same book (some including Large Print), possibly enough for all the members of your book club. Each kit also contains a laminated card of discussion questions to get you started.
How can I get one?
Book Club Kits are available on the bottom shelf of the New Fiction section. One person checks out the kit and distributes the books to other members of the book club. Kits can be checked out for 8 weeks at a time. Book Club Kits can be reserved online. To request a kit, please call the Reference Desk at (508)261-7380 x3. Book Club Kits may not be returned in the book drop.
What titles do you have?
Search the catalog by searching for “Book Club Kit” and limit your search to the Mansfield Public Library; you will see which kits are currently available. Lists of Book Club Kit titles also are included in each kit. We hope to add more kits if you like this program.
What happens if you lose a book? Or return it late?
The overdue fines for a book club kit are $.50 per day, with a maximum of $5. If your group happens to lose a book you will be charged for the price of the book.
Current List of Book Club Kit Titles:
American Duchess by Karen Harper
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Gown by Jennifer Robson
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan
My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
The Song of the Jade Lily by Kirsty Manning
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
The Stranger In the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
The Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
List updated July 29, 2022
