Book Groups have been formed in the community by people who enjoy reading and discussing the same book. Book Group members may work together, live in the same area or be a group of friends who have known each other for years. Each month the members of the Group read a different book, trying new authors and styles of writing. Rather than going to the added expense of buying a new book each month, Book Groups like to borrow from their local library.
Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation has recognised this need and has established a new Book Group Collection, exclusively for Book Groups in our library region.
Sixty sets of books have been purchased; each set consisting of 10 copies of the same title plus a comprehensive folder of discussion notes. The titles in this new Collection have been chosen carefully. Most of the titles are very recent and about a third have Australian authors or settings. The Collection will grow to meet demand.
To access this collection, Book Groups must first
register
with CCLC and pay an annual subscription of $100. A Registration form and Reading List
Application must be printed, filled out and handed in to any branch of CCLC.
Books which comprise the Book Group collection are
listed below or you can print the complete
list, which includes blurbs.
| Title |
Author |
Genre |
Pages |
| Aloft |
Chang-Rae Lee |
Fiction |
343 |
| Arthur and George |
Julian Barnes |
Fiction |
505 |
| Bad mother's handbook |
Kate Long |
Fiction |
365 |
| In the name of honour |
Mukhtar Mai |
Biography |
172 |
| Be near me |
Andrew O'Hagan |
Fiction |
320 |
| Before the frost |
Henning Mankell |
Fiction |
375 |
| Behind the moon |
Hsu-Ming Teo |
Fiction |
372 |
| Book thief |
Markus Zusak |
Fiction |
584 |
| Broken Shore |
Peter Temple |
Mystery |
345 |
| Carpentaria |
Alexis Wright |
Fiction |
519 |
| Carry me down |
M J Hyland |
Fiction |
313 |
| Case histories |
Kate Atkinson |
Fiction |
410 |
| Cocaine blues |
Kerry Greenwood |
Mystery |
195 |
| Coronation talkies |
Susan Kurosawa |
Fiction |
488 |
| Daniel isn't talking |
Marti Leimbach |
Fiction |
275 |
| Death in a truffle wood |
Pierre Magnan |
Fiction | 201 |
| Death of a red heroine |
Qiu Xiaolong |
Mystery | 464 |
| Don't kiss them goodbye |
Allison Dubois |
Biography | 193 |
| Drink me: a memoir of a
relationship |
Skye Rogers |
Biography | 336 |
| Everyman's rules for scientific
living |
Carrie Tiffany |
Fiction |
256 |
| Frangipani |
Celestine Hitiura Vaite |
Fiction | 295 |
| Glass castle |
Jeannette Walls |
Biography |
341 |
| Good life |
Jay McInerney |
Fiction | 353 |
| Hazel's journey |
Sue Pieters-Hawke and Hazel Flynn |
Biography | 306 |
| Imposture |
Benjamin Markovits |
Historical Fiction |
288 |
| Invisible girl |
Peter Barham |
Biography | 324 |
| Jigs & reels |
Joanne Harris |
Fiction | 273 |
| Last love story |
Rodney Hall |
Fiction | 256 |
| Long way down |
Nick Hornby |
Fiction | 256 |
| Maisie Dobbs |
Jacqueline Winspear |
Mystery |
294 |
| Man's got to have a hobby |
William McInnes |
Biography |
281 |
| March |
Geraldine Brooks |
Literary Fiction |
346 |
| Marley & me |
John Grogan |
Biography |
291 |
| Meaning of night |
Michael Cox |
Historical Fiction |
672 |
| Memory of running |
Ron McLarty |
Fiction | 406 |
| Mister Pip |
Lloyd Jones |
Fiction |
220 |
| Mother, missing |
Joyce Carol Oates |
Fiction | 434 |
| My nine lives |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Fiction | 277 |
| Natural flights of the human mind |
Clare Morrall |
Fiction | 390 |
| Night watch |
Sarah Waters |
Historical Fiction | 472 |
| Nineteen minutes |
Jodi Picoult |
Fiction |
455 |
| Old filfth |
Jane Gardam |
Fiction | 257 |
| Old school |
Tobias Wolff |
Fiction | 195 |
| Olive sisters |
Amanda Hampson |
Fiction | 271 |
| On Chesil Beach |
Ian McEwan |
Fiction |
166 |
| Other side of you |
Salley Vickers |
Fiction | 292 |
| Paint your wife |
Lloyd Jones |
Fiction | 298 |
| Players |
Tony Wilson |
Fiction | 375 |
| Red leaves |
Thomas H Cook |
Mystery | 289 |
| Road story |
Julienne Van Loon |
Fiction | 155 |
| Runaway |
Alice Munro |
Fiction | 335 |
| Salvation Creek |
Susan Duncan |
Biography | 400 |
| Saturday |
Ian McEwen |
Fiction | 304 |
| Scraps of heaven |
Arnold Zable |
Fiction | 246 |
| Secret of lost things |
Sheridan Hay |
Literary Fiction |
354 |
| Shadow boxing |
Tony Birch |
Short Stories |
178 |
| Shadow of the wind |
Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Thriller | 521 |
| Shalimar the clown |
Salman Rushdie |
Fiction | 398 |
| Shame |
Jasvindera Sanghera |
Fiction |
289 |
| Ship of brides |
Jojo Moyes |
Fiction | 482 |
| Short history of tractors |
Marina Lewycka |
Fiction | 324 |
| So many selves |
Gabrielle Carey |
Biography |
212 |
| So many ways to begin |
Jon McGregor |
Fiction |
352 |
| Spot of bother |
Mark Haddon |
Fiction |
503 |
| Stiff |
Shane Maloney |
Mystery | 227 |
| Sunnyside |
Joanna Murray-Smith |
Fiction | 396 |
| Taste of memory |
Marion Halligan |
Biography |
275 |
| Teacher man |
Frank McCourt |
Biography | 258 |
| These foolish things |
Deborah Moggach |
Fiction | 281 |
| Thirteen moons |
Charles Frazier |
Historical Fiction |
432 |
| Thirteenth tale |
Diane Setterfield |
Fiction |
432 |
| Thousand splendid suns |
Khaled Hosseini |
Historical Fiction |
372 |
| Tourmaline |
Joanna Scott |
Fiction | 279 |
| Unpolished gem |
Alice Pung |
Biography |
282 |
| Vanishing act of Esme Lennox |
Maggie O'Farrell |
Fiction | 245 |
| We need to talk about Kevin |
Lionel Shriver |
Fiction | 436 |
| Wild lavender |
Belinda Alexandra |
Fiction | 610 |
| Ya-Yas in bloom |
Rebecca Wells |
Fiction | 258 |
| Yesterday's houses |
Mavis Cheek |
Fiction | 263 |
| You gotta have balls |
Lily Bret |
Fiction | 298 |
If you have any queries or require further information, please contact Jenny Ferguson, Adult Collection Librarian on 03 5990 0100.