Book Group

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.