Community Book Club

The Community Book Club collection is a resource for Book Clubs meeting in the community.

The collection consists of almost 80 sets of popular and classic book titles; each set contains 10 copies of the title. Some sets also contain an audio book and large print version.

What is Included

Each set comes with:

• 10 copies of the book
• Discussion Guide; synopsis, author biography, questions.

Some Book Club sets may also contain an Audio Book or Large Print version of the title.

Getting Started

To borrow from the Community Book Club collection, you need to: 

• nominate a coordinator for your group.
• Your coordinator can visit one of our libraries and sign up for a Book Club membership
• An annual fee per Book Club group applies (see ‘Library fees & charges’ for more information) giving you access to the entire collection.

Loans

• You can borrow a title for a maximum of six weeks.
• Reserve your titles by calling any of the City of Ryde libraries or emailing rydelibrary@ryde.nsw.gov.au.
• Collect your reservation from library staff at your nominated library.

Titles in the Collection

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z

A

• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield(PDF, 319KB)
• Atonement by Ian McEwan(PDF, 305KB)

B

• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua(PDF, 537KB)
• Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson(PDF, 282KB)
• Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty(PDF, 342KB)
• The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt(PDF, 453KB)
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak(PDF, 279KB)
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne(PDF, 287KB)
• Breath by Tim Winton(PDF, 303KB)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh(PDF, 272KB)
• The Broken Shore by Peter Temple(PDF, 279KB)
• Burial Rites by Hannah Kent(PDF, 475KB)

C

• Caleb's Crossing: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks(PDF, 281KB)
• Cathedral by Raymond Carver(PDF, 276KB)
• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons(PDF, 303KB)
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(PDF, 191KB)

D

• Dark Places by Kate Grenville(PDF, 280KB)
• The Dig Tree by Sarah Murgatroyd(PDF, 286KB)
• The Dinner by Herman Koch(PDF, 292KB)

E

• Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery(PDF, 292KB)
• The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe(PDF, 567KB)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer(PDF, 288KB)
• The Eye of the Storm by Patrick White(PDF, 352KB)

F

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury(PDF, 377KB)
• Fields of Gold by Fiona McIntosh(PDF, 411KB)
• Five Bells by Gail Jones(PDF, 424KB)
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton(PDF, 286KB)
• The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry(PDF, 277KB)

G

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson(PDF, 278KB)
• The Girl in the Photograph(PDF, 344KB)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn(PDF, 543KB)
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald(PDF, 270KB)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows(PDF, 530KB)

H

• The Handmaid's Hale by Margaret Atwood(PDF, 284KB)
• The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do(PDF, 277KB)
• Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf(PDF, 401KB)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett(PDF, 285KB)

I

• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot(PDF, 311KB)
• I am Malala : the Girl who Stood up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai(PDF, 441KB)
• In Cold blood : a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote(PDF, 290KB)

J 

• J by Howard Jacobson(PDF, 451KB)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan(PDF, 569KB)

L

• The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry(PDF, 206KB)
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh(PDF, 281KB)
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult(PDF, 534KB)
• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson(PDF, 333KB)
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman(PDF, 293KB)
• Little Bee (The Other Hand) by Chris Cleave(PDF, 531KB)
• Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez(PDF, 302KB)
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding(PDF, 549KB)
• Lost & Found by Brooke Davis(PDF, 194KB)
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton(PDF, 399KB)

M

• Middlemarch by George Eliot(PDF, 274KB)
• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie(PDF, 287KB)
• The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska(PDF, 282KB)
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini(PDF, 528KB)

N

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan(PDF, 362KB)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro(PDF, 292KB)
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern(PDF, 495KB)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell(PDF, 454KB)
• The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff(PDF, 374KB)

O

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck(PDF, 279KB)
• The One Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson(PDF, 392KB)

P

• Persuasion by Jane Austen(PDF, 275KB)
• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay(PDF, 273KB)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde(PDF, 291KB)
• Puberty Blues by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette(PDF, 285KB)

Q

• Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser(PDF, 386KB)

R

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier(PDF, 511KB)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid(PDF, 505KB)
• A Room With a View by E.M. Forster(PDF, 435KB)
• Rosewater and Soda Bread by Marsha Mehran(PDF, 209KB)
• The Rosie project by Graeme Simsion(PDF, 277KB)

S

• Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay(PDF, 284KB)
• The Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie Joel(PDF, 409KB)
• The Secret History by Donna Tart(PDF, 478KB)
• The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton(PDF, 282KB)
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes(PDF, 277KB)
• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert(PDF, 573KB)
• Stasiland by Anna Funder(PDF, 293KB)
• Still Alice: A Novel by Lisa Genova(PDF, 277KB)
• The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova(PDF, 504KB)
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan(PDF, 283KB)

T

• The Tailor's Girl by Fiona McIntosh(PDF, 437KB)
• Tea with Arwa by Arwa El Masri(PDF, 287KB)
• That Woman : the life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba(PDF, 283KB)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield(PDF, 499KB)
• This House of grief by Helen Garner(PDF, 531KB)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka(PDF, 482KB)

W

• Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook(PDF, 280KB)
• The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower(PDF, 282KB)
• Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen(PDF, 277KB)
• We are all Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler(PDF, 522KB)

Y

• The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers(PDF, 536KB)

Z

• The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman(PDF, 243KB)

Find out more 

For more information, download the Frequently Asked Questions Community Book Club collection(PDF, 687KB) .