The Southington Library has a wide selection of in-house book group titles available to borrow. If your book group is interested in reserving titles not included on our in-house list, please read and follow our book group guidelines below. Scroll down to see our extensive list of books.
Book Group Guidelines
In order to serve book groups to the best of our ability, we require all book groups to follow the guidelines below:
If requests are submitted less than 3 weeks prior to the requested pick-up date, the title must be available from our in-house book group collection. Due to unpredictable shipping and processing times, requests made less than 3 weeks in advance cannot be guaranteed to arrive in time.
Book picks with a publication date of less than 1 year prior cannot be guaranteed to arrive. Many libraries in our consortium will not loan new books to other libraries. Popular books with long waitlists will be denied. When submitting a request, please have an alternate pick ready.
Book groups are always welcome to submit a list in advance. Doing so allows the book group librarian to make sure all picks will be available well in advance or to make appropriate suggestions to help your book group get the books you want. When submitting a list in advance, once it is okayed, we will keep a copy and make sure the books arrive when your group is ready to pick them up.
In order to serve book groups to the best of our ability, we require all book groups to follow the guidelines below:
- Requests must be made to the librarian in charge of book groups at least 3 weeks prior to the requested pick up date.
- Books must have been published at least 1 year prior to the requested date.
- Books are picked up at the Reference Desk and checked out at the Circulation Desk. Please let the Circulation Desk know when your book group is meeting so they can extend your due date.
If requests are submitted less than 3 weeks prior to the requested pick-up date, the title must be available from our in-house book group collection. Due to unpredictable shipping and processing times, requests made less than 3 weeks in advance cannot be guaranteed to arrive in time.
Book picks with a publication date of less than 1 year prior cannot be guaranteed to arrive. Many libraries in our consortium will not loan new books to other libraries. Popular books with long waitlists will be denied. When submitting a request, please have an alternate pick ready.
Book groups are always welcome to submit a list in advance. Doing so allows the book group librarian to make sure all picks will be available well in advance or to make appropriate suggestions to help your book group get the books you want. When submitting a list in advance, once it is okayed, we will keep a copy and make sure the books arrive when your group is ready to pick them up.
Book Group Titles
Last Updated August 2023
#means non-fiction
Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything / Kristin Bair
All Adults Here / Emma Straub
Almost Sisters / Joshilyn Jackson
American Dirt / Jeanine Cummins
And the Mountains Echoed / Khaled Hosseini
Angels of the Pacific / Elise Hooper
Anxious People / Fredrik Backman
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats / Jan-Philipp Sendker / Kevin Wiliarty
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein
Await Your Reply / Dan Chaon
Big Little Lies / Liane Moriarty
Boop and Eve’s Road Trip / Mary Helen Sheriff
Boston Girl / Anita Diamant
Boy, Snow, Bird / Helen Oyeyemi
The Boys in the Boat / Daniel James Brown#
The Burgess Boys / Elizabeth Strout
Burial Rites / Hannah Kent
Butterfly’s Child / Angela Davis-Gardner
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper / Phaedra Patrick
Dear Mr. Knightley / Katherine Reay
East of Eden /John Steinbeck
East of the Sun /Julia Gregson
Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert
Educated : A Novel / Tara Westover#
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman
Every Now and Then / Lesley Kagen
Fencing with the King / Diana Abu Jaber
Four Winds / Kristin Hannah
Fragile / Lisa Unger
The Glass Hotel / Emily St. John Mandel
The Girls in the Stilt House / Kelly Mustian
Hamnet / Maggie O’ Farrell
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee / Agnes Martin-Lugand
Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly#
How to Make a Life / Florence Reiss Kraut
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot#
The Invention of Wings / Sue Monk Kidd
Joy for Beginners / Erica Bauermeister
The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom
The Language of Flowers / Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Time I Saw You / Elizabeth Berg
The Light Between Oceans / M.I. Stedman
The Light in the Ruins / Chris Bohjalian
Lilac Girls / Martha Kelly
Little Bee / Chris Cleave
Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Maid / Nita Prose
Maine / J. Courtney Sullivan
A Man Called Ove: A Novel / Fredrik Backman
The Martian / Andy Weir
Me Before You / Jojo Moyes
The Mermaid Chair / Sue Monk Kidd
The Mermaid from Jeju / Sumi Hahn
My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante
My Name is Mary Sutter / Robin Oliveira
My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult
The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead
The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman
The Only Woman in the Room/ Marie Benedict
Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline
The Paris Wife / Paula McLain
The Pilot’s Wife / Anita Shreve
Purple Lotus / Veena Rao
The Red Garden / Alice Hoffman
The Red Tent / Anita Diamant
Room / Emma Donoghue
The Sandalwood Tree / Elle Newmark
Sarah’s Key / Tatiana De Rosnay
Sea Change / Karen White
Secret Daughter / Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid
Shanghai Girls / Lisa See
The Silent Patient / Alex Michaelides
Silver Sparrow / Tayari Jones
A Small Death in the Great Glen / A.D. Scott
So Happy Together / Deborah Shepherd
South of Broad / Pat Conroy
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett
Still Alice / Lisa Genova
Still Life with Bread Crumbs / Anna Quindlen
These Ghosts are Family / Maisy Card
That Old Cape Magic / Richard Russo
Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
Toward That Which is Beautiful / Marian O’Shea Wernicke
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival… / Laura Hillenbrand#
Under the Wide and Starry Sky / Nancy Horan
The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett
Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen
West with the Giraffes / Lynda Rutledge
When Stars Rain Down / Angela Jackson-Brown
Where the Crawdads Sing / Delia Owens
Where’d You Go, Bernadette / Maria Semple
Wild: From Lost to Found / Cheryl Strayed#
The Wind Is Not a River / Brian Payton
The Zookeeper's Wife / Diane Ackerman
Last Updated August 2023
#means non-fiction
Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything / Kristin Bair
All Adults Here / Emma Straub
Almost Sisters / Joshilyn Jackson
American Dirt / Jeanine Cummins
And the Mountains Echoed / Khaled Hosseini
Angels of the Pacific / Elise Hooper
Anxious People / Fredrik Backman
The Art of Hearing Heartbeats / Jan-Philipp Sendker / Kevin Wiliarty
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein
Await Your Reply / Dan Chaon
Big Little Lies / Liane Moriarty
Boop and Eve’s Road Trip / Mary Helen Sheriff
Boston Girl / Anita Diamant
Boy, Snow, Bird / Helen Oyeyemi
The Boys in the Boat / Daniel James Brown#
The Burgess Boys / Elizabeth Strout
Burial Rites / Hannah Kent
Butterfly’s Child / Angela Davis-Gardner
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper / Phaedra Patrick
Dear Mr. Knightley / Katherine Reay
East of Eden /John Steinbeck
East of the Sun /Julia Gregson
Eat, Pray, Love / Elizabeth Gilbert
Educated : A Novel / Tara Westover#
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman
Every Now and Then / Lesley Kagen
Fencing with the King / Diana Abu Jaber
Four Winds / Kristin Hannah
Fragile / Lisa Unger
The Glass Hotel / Emily St. John Mandel
The Girls in the Stilt House / Kelly Mustian
Hamnet / Maggie O’ Farrell
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee / Agnes Martin-Lugand
Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly#
How to Make a Life / Florence Reiss Kraut
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot#
The Invention of Wings / Sue Monk Kidd
Joy for Beginners / Erica Bauermeister
The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom
The Language of Flowers / Vanessa Diffenbaugh
The Last Time I Saw You / Elizabeth Berg
The Light Between Oceans / M.I. Stedman
The Light in the Ruins / Chris Bohjalian
Lilac Girls / Martha Kelly
Little Bee / Chris Cleave
Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Maid / Nita Prose
Maine / J. Courtney Sullivan
A Man Called Ove: A Novel / Fredrik Backman
The Martian / Andy Weir
Me Before You / Jojo Moyes
The Mermaid Chair / Sue Monk Kidd
The Mermaid from Jeju / Sumi Hahn
My Brilliant Friend / Elena Ferrante
My Name is Mary Sutter / Robin Oliveira
My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult
The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead
The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah
The Ocean at the End of the Lane / Neil Gaiman
The Only Woman in the Room/ Marie Benedict
Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline
The Paris Wife / Paula McLain
The Pilot’s Wife / Anita Shreve
Purple Lotus / Veena Rao
The Red Garden / Alice Hoffman
The Red Tent / Anita Diamant
Room / Emma Donoghue
The Sandalwood Tree / Elle Newmark
Sarah’s Key / Tatiana De Rosnay
Sea Change / Karen White
Secret Daughter / Shilpi Somaya Gowda
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid
Shanghai Girls / Lisa See
The Silent Patient / Alex Michaelides
Silver Sparrow / Tayari Jones
A Small Death in the Great Glen / A.D. Scott
So Happy Together / Deborah Shepherd
South of Broad / Pat Conroy
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett
Still Alice / Lisa Genova
Still Life with Bread Crumbs / Anna Quindlen
These Ghosts are Family / Maisy Card
That Old Cape Magic / Richard Russo
Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini
Toward That Which is Beautiful / Marian O’Shea Wernicke
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival… / Laura Hillenbrand#
Under the Wide and Starry Sky / Nancy Horan
The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett
Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen
West with the Giraffes / Lynda Rutledge
When Stars Rain Down / Angela Jackson-Brown
Where the Crawdads Sing / Delia Owens
Where’d You Go, Bernadette / Maria Semple
Wild: From Lost to Found / Cheryl Strayed#
The Wind Is Not a River / Brian Payton
The Zookeeper's Wife / Diane Ackerman