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Book Clubs

A group of reading enthusiasts meet monthly to choose, read, and discuss books. Please ask one of our staff and we will be happy to help you!

Book Club Set Instructions

Book Club Set reservation live document

FAQ

Book Club Kits at our Library

Sponsored by the following Federations:  Island Link Federation, Northwest Library Federation, North East Library Federation, Kootenay Library Federation,   North Central Federation.

Note: We only carry ten copies of each book, which are split into two sets of five.

  • Aftershocks – Nadia Owusu
  • American dirt – Jeanine Cummins
  • Ask again, yes – Mary Beth Keane
  • Atlas of the heart – Brene Brown
  • Bad Cree – Jessica Johns
  • Before we were yours – Lisa Wingate
  • Be kind, be calm, be safe – Bonnie Henry
  • Between two kingdoms – Suleika Jaquad
  • Between two moon – Aisha Abdel Gawad
  • Black water David A. Robertson
  • Brilliant life of Eudora Honey – Annie Lyons
  • Carnegie’s maid – Marie Benedict
  • Chiru Sakura = Falling – Grace Eiko Thomson
  • Circus Train – Amita Parikh
  • Cloud cuckoo land – Anthony Doerr
  • Cold – Mariko Tamai
  • Concrete rose – Angie Thomas
  • Consent – Annabel Lyon
  • Covenant of water – Abraham Verghese
  • Damages – Genenvieve Scott
  • Dark roads – Chevy Stevens
  • Daughters of the deer – Danielle Daniel
  • Delicious monsters – Liselle Sambury
  • Demon Coperhead – Barbara Kinsolver
  • Diamond eye –  Kate Quinn
  • Drowing woman – Robyn Harding
  • Eat a peach – David Chang
  • Fable – Adrienne Young
  • Finding Dorothy – Elizabeth Letts
  • Firekeeper’s daughter – Angeline Boulley
  • Fire weather – John Vailliant
  • Five little indians – Michelle Good
  • Four winds – Kristin Hannah
  • French braid – Anne Tyler
  • Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles
  • Gilded ones – Namina Forna
  • Good son – Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • The great Alone – Kristin Hannah
  • Guest – Emma Cline
  • Guest list – Lucy Foley
  • Happy place – Emily Henry
  • Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead
  • Hello beautiful – Ann Napolitano
  • Hour of the witch – Chris Bohjalian
  • How high we go in the dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
  • How to lose everything – Christa Couture
  • Indians on vacation – Thomas King
  • Invisible hour – Alice Hoffman
  • The island of sea Women – Lisa See
  • Klara and the sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The last beekeeper – Siya Turabi
  • Last thing he told me – Laura Dave
  • Lessons in chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
  • Lincoln highway – Amor Towles
  • Looking for Jane – Heather Marshall
  • The lost girls of Paris – Pam Jenoff
  • Lying life of adults – Elena Ferrante
  • Malibu rising – Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Me three – Susan Juby
  • Midnight library – Matt Haig
  • The Mountains sing – Nguyen Phan Que Mai
  • Nishga – Jordan Abel
  • None of this is true – Lisa Jewell
  • Oh, william!  – Elizabeth Strout
  • Once there were wolves – Charlotte Mcconaghy
  • Other people’s children – R. J. Hoffmann
  • Our missing hearts – Celeste Ng
  • Paris library – Janet Charles
  • Pull of the stars – Emma Donoghue
  • Push – Ashley Audrain
  • Razorblade tears – S. A. Cosby
  • Recipe for a perfect wife – Karma Brown
  • Red clocks – Leni Zumas
  • Remarkably bright creaturses – Shelby Van Pelt
  • Return of the trickster – Eden Robinson
  • Rose Code – Kate Quinn
  • Run towards the danger – Sarah Polley
  • Sea of tranquility – Emily St. Mandel
  • Shadow and bone – Leigh Bardugo
  • Slow fire burning – Paula Halkins
  • Snow road – Elizabeth Hay
  • Spare – Prince Harry
  • The strangers – Katherena Vermett
  • Survive the night – Riley Sager
  • Tea girl of Hummingbird Lane – Lisa See
  • These precious days – Ann Patchett
  • This close to okay – Leesa Cross-Smith
  • This one wild life – Angie Abdou
  • This time tomorrow – Emma Straub
  • Those we thought we knew – David Joy
  • Three Sisters – Heather Morris
  • Unlikely animals – Annie Hartnett
  • Vanishing half – Brit Bennett
  • The Vaster wilds – Lauren Groff
  • Violeta – Isabel Allende
  • Where the crawdads sing – Delia Owens
  • Whispers – Audrain Ashley
  • You have a match – Emma Lord
  • Yearbook – Seth Rogen

If you are interested in being a part of our book club, or starting your own, please call us at (250) 783-9414 or e-mail ill.hhpl@pris.ca

Starting Your Own Book Club?

Visit the links below for information on how to get your own book club going:

  • NoveList [library card needed]
    Includes book reviews, read-alikes, author biographies and discussion questions.
  • GoodReadsIncludes reader reviews, trivia, reading lists, etc.  You can choose to sign up and share book lists.
  • BookClubs.caFocuses on Canadian titles and includes reading guides, information about author events, and books in the news.
  • BookTalk.org
    An online book club that anyone can join.
  • Oprah’s Book Club
    Includes recommended book lists, author interviews and more.
  • BookBrowse.com
    Includes reviews, previews, stories behind the books, author interviews, reading guides, and more.
  • Mostly, we eat!
    A long-running book club that includes recommended reads and advice on starting a book club.