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, with each set containing 10 copies of the title.

What is Included

Each set comes with:

• 10 copies of the book
• Discussion guides that include synopsis, author biography and 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

• A Month of Sundays by Liz Byrski(PDF, 224KB)
• Act of Grace by Anna Krien(PDF, 190KB)
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield(PDF, 319KB)
• Any Ordinary Day by Leigh Sales(PDF, 174KB)

B

• Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua(PDF, 537KB)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama(PDF, 213KB)
• 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)
• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin(PDF, 166KB)
• 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)
• The Choke by Sofie Laguna(PDF, 181KB)
• Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris(PDF, 198KB)
• Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon(PDF, 177KB)
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra(PDF, 191KB)
• Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan(PDF, 173KB)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon(PDF, 163KB)

D

• Dark Places by Kate Grenville(PDF, 280KB)
• The Dinner by Herman Koch
• The Dry by Jane Harper(PDF, 178KB)

E

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman(PDF, 176KB)
• 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)
• Foal's bread by Gillian Mears(PDF, 409KB)  
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton(PDF, 286KB)
• The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry(PDF, 277KB)

G

• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
• The Girl in the Photograph(PDF, 344KB)
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins(PDF, 186KB)
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn(PDF, 543KB)
• Go set a watchman by Harper Lee(PDF, 157KB)
• Grown ups by Marian Keyes(PDF, 151KB)
• 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)
• Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf(PDF, 401KB)
• Hidden Figures: the untold story of the African American women who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly(PDF, 166KB)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford(PDF, 513KB)
• 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)

• Infinite splendours by Sofie Laguna(PDF, 155KB)

• The Institute by Stephen King(PDF, 260KB)

J

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

K

•  The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang(PDF, 219KB)

L

• Ladies in Black by Madeleine St. John(PDF, 223KB)
• 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)
• Little Bee (The Other Hand) by Chris Cleave(PDF, 531KB)
• Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriguez(PDF, 302KB)
• 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 Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood(PDF, 223KB)
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan(PDF, 362KB)
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro(PDF, 292KB)
• Nine Perfects Strangers by Liane Moriarty(PDF, 177KB)
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern(PDF, 495KB)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell(PDF, 454KB)
• The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff(PDF, 374KB)
• The nowhere child by Christian White(PDF, 177KB)

O

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck(PDF, 279KB)
• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan(PDF, 163KB)
• The One Hundred Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson(PDF, 392KB)
• The Opal Dragonfly: A Tale of Sydney by Julian Leatherdale(PDF, 177KB)

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 Letter(PDF, 285KB)

R

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier(PDF, 511KB)
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid(PDF, 505KB)
• 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)
• State of Wonder by Ann Patchett(PDF, 126KB)
• Storied life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin(PDF, 181KB)
• The Swan Thieves - Elizabeth Kostova(PDF, 504KB)
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan(PDF, 283KB)

T

• Talking to my Country by Stan Grant(PDF, 220KB)
• Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris(PDF, 162KB)
• The Tailor's Girl by Fiona McIntosh(PDF, 437KB)
• Tea Gardens by Fiona McIntosh(PDF, 176KB)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield(PDF, 499KB)
• This House of grief by Helen Garner(PDF, 531KB)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka(PDF, 482KB)
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee(PDF, 116KB)

• Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty(PDF, 113KB)

W

• Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook(PDF, 280KB)
• The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower(PDF, 282KB)
• Warlight by Michael Ondaatje(PDF, 163KB)
• 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).