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.
- 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 2024
#means non-fiction
Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything / Kristin Bair (6 copies)
All Adults Here / Emma Straub (8 copies)
The Amish Wife : Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, … / Gregg Olsen # (8 copies)
Almost Sisters / Joshilyn Jackson (9 copies)
American Dirt / Jeanine Cummins (7 copies)
And the Mountains Echoed / Khaled Hosseini (8 copies)
Angels of the Pacific / Elise Hooper (7 copies)
Anxious People / Fredrik Backman(6 copies)
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein (7 copies)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi (9 copies)
Big Little Lies / Liane Moriarty (12 copies)
Boop and Eve’s Road Trip / Mary Helen Sheriff (6 copies)
Boston Girl / Anita Diamant (8 copies)
The Boys in the Boat / Daniel James Brown# (9 copies)
The Burgess Boys / Elizabeth Strout (8 copies)
Burial Rites / Hannah Kent (8 copies)
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper / Phaedra Patrick (8 copies)
Dear Mr. Knightley / Katherine Reay (8 copies)
East of Eden / John Steinbeck (5 copies)
Educated / Tara Westover # (8 copies)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman (14 copies)
Every Now and Then / Lesley Kagen (6 copies)
Fencing with the King / Diana Abu Jaber (8 copies)
Four Winds / Kristin Hannah (4 copies)
Fragile / Lisa Unger (8 copies)
Free Lunch / Rex Ogle (10 copies)
The Glass Hotel / Emily St. John Mandel (7 copies)
The Girls in the Stilt House / Kelly Mustian (8 copies)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer (8 copies)
Hamnet / Maggie O’ Farrell (16 copies)
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee / Agnes Martin-Lugand (8 copies)
Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly# (8 copies)
How to Make a Life / Florence Reiss Kraut (5 copies)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot# (5 copies)
The Invention of Wings / Sue Monk Kidd (8 copies)
Joy for Beginners / Erica Bauermeister (8 copies)
Killers of the Flower Moon / David Gran # (8 copies)
The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom (8 copies)
The Last Time I Saw You / Elizabeth Berg (10 copies)
Lessons in Chemistry / Bonnie Garmus (7 copies)
The Light Between Oceans / M.L. Stedman (7 copies)
The Lioness of Boston / Emily Franklin (8 copies)
Lilac Girls / Martha Hall Kelly (9 copies)
Lion & Lamb / James Patterson (8 copies)
Little Bee / Chris Cleave (7 copies)
Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8 copies)
The Lost Summers of Newport / Beartriz Williams (8 copies)
Mad Honey / Jodi Picoult (8 copies)
The Maid / Nita Prose (7 copies)
Maine / J. Courtney Sullivan (8 copies)
A Man Called Ove: A Novel / Fredrik Backman (8 copies)
The Martian / Andy Weir(8 copies)
Me Before You / Jojo Moyes (8 copies)
The Mermaid Chair / Sue Monk Kidd (8 copies)
My House in Umbria / William Trevor (10 copies)
My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult (8 copies)
The Mystery Guest / Nita Prose(8 copies)
The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead (9 copies)
The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah (10 copies)
The Only Woman in the Room / Marie Benedict (5 copies)
Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline(9 copies)
The Paris Wife / Paula McLain (10 copies)
The Pilot’s Wife / Anita Shreve (8 copies)
The Red Garden / Alice Hoffman (9 copies)
Room / Emma Donoghue (10 copies)
Sarah’s Key / Tatiana De Rosnay (9 copies)
Sea Change / Karen White(9 copies)
The Second Mrs. Astor / Shana Abé(9 copies)
Secret Daughter / Shilpi Somaya Gowda (5 copies)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid (8 copies)
The Silent Patient / Alex Michaelides (5 copies)
So Happy Together / Deborah L. Shepherd (5 copies)
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett (8 copies)
Still Life / Louise Penny (7 copies)
Still Alice / Lisa Genova (7 copies)
These Ghosts are Family / Maisy Card (11 copies)
Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini(7 copies)
Toward That Which is Beautiful / Marian O’Shea Wernicke (6 copies)
Unbroken: A World War II Story/ Laura Hillenbrand# (9 copies)
The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett (6 copies)
Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen (10 copies)
West with Giraffes / Lynda Rutledge (8 copies)
When Stars Rain Down / Angela Jackson-Brown (6 copies)
Where the Crawdads Sing / Delia Owens (10 copies)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette / Maria Semple (8 copies)
Wild: From Lost to Found / Cheryl Strayed# (8 copies)
The Zookeeper's Wife / Diane Ackerman (8 copies)
Last Updated August 2024
#means non-fiction
Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything / Kristin Bair (6 copies)
All Adults Here / Emma Straub (8 copies)
The Amish Wife : Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, … / Gregg Olsen # (8 copies)
Almost Sisters / Joshilyn Jackson (9 copies)
American Dirt / Jeanine Cummins (7 copies)
And the Mountains Echoed / Khaled Hosseini (8 copies)
Angels of the Pacific / Elise Hooper (7 copies)
Anxious People / Fredrik Backman(6 copies)
The Art of Racing in the Rain / Garth Stein (7 copies)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Toshikazu Kawaguchi (9 copies)
Big Little Lies / Liane Moriarty (12 copies)
Boop and Eve’s Road Trip / Mary Helen Sheriff (6 copies)
Boston Girl / Anita Diamant (8 copies)
The Boys in the Boat / Daniel James Brown# (9 copies)
The Burgess Boys / Elizabeth Strout (8 copies)
Burial Rites / Hannah Kent (8 copies)
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper / Phaedra Patrick (8 copies)
Dear Mr. Knightley / Katherine Reay (8 copies)
East of Eden / John Steinbeck (5 copies)
Educated / Tara Westover # (8 copies)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman (14 copies)
Every Now and Then / Lesley Kagen (6 copies)
Fencing with the King / Diana Abu Jaber (8 copies)
Four Winds / Kristin Hannah (4 copies)
Fragile / Lisa Unger (8 copies)
Free Lunch / Rex Ogle (10 copies)
The Glass Hotel / Emily St. John Mandel (7 copies)
The Girls in the Stilt House / Kelly Mustian (8 copies)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer (8 copies)
Hamnet / Maggie O’ Farrell (16 copies)
Happy People Read and Drink Coffee / Agnes Martin-Lugand (8 copies)
Hidden Figures / Margot Lee Shetterly# (8 copies)
How to Make a Life / Florence Reiss Kraut (5 copies)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot# (5 copies)
The Invention of Wings / Sue Monk Kidd (8 copies)
Joy for Beginners / Erica Bauermeister (8 copies)
Killers of the Flower Moon / David Gran # (8 copies)
The Kitchen House / Kathleen Grissom (8 copies)
The Last Time I Saw You / Elizabeth Berg (10 copies)
Lessons in Chemistry / Bonnie Garmus (7 copies)
The Light Between Oceans / M.L. Stedman (7 copies)
The Lioness of Boston / Emily Franklin (8 copies)
Lilac Girls / Martha Hall Kelly (9 copies)
Lion & Lamb / James Patterson (8 copies)
Little Bee / Chris Cleave (7 copies)
Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8 copies)
The Lost Summers of Newport / Beartriz Williams (8 copies)
Mad Honey / Jodi Picoult (8 copies)
The Maid / Nita Prose (7 copies)
Maine / J. Courtney Sullivan (8 copies)
A Man Called Ove: A Novel / Fredrik Backman (8 copies)
The Martian / Andy Weir(8 copies)
Me Before You / Jojo Moyes (8 copies)
The Mermaid Chair / Sue Monk Kidd (8 copies)
My House in Umbria / William Trevor (10 copies)
My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult (8 copies)
The Mystery Guest / Nita Prose(8 copies)
The Nickel Boys / Colson Whitehead (9 copies)
The Nightingale / Kristin Hannah (10 copies)
The Only Woman in the Room / Marie Benedict (5 copies)
Orphan Train / Christina Baker Kline(9 copies)
The Paris Wife / Paula McLain (10 copies)
The Pilot’s Wife / Anita Shreve (8 copies)
The Red Garden / Alice Hoffman (9 copies)
Room / Emma Donoghue (10 copies)
Sarah’s Key / Tatiana De Rosnay (9 copies)
Sea Change / Karen White(9 copies)
The Second Mrs. Astor / Shana Abé(9 copies)
Secret Daughter / Shilpi Somaya Gowda (5 copies)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo / Taylor Jenkins Reid (8 copies)
The Silent Patient / Alex Michaelides (5 copies)
So Happy Together / Deborah L. Shepherd (5 copies)
State of Wonder / Ann Patchett (8 copies)
Still Life / Louise Penny (7 copies)
Still Alice / Lisa Genova (7 copies)
These Ghosts are Family / Maisy Card (11 copies)
Thousand Splendid Suns / Khaled Hosseini(7 copies)
Toward That Which is Beautiful / Marian O’Shea Wernicke (6 copies)
Unbroken: A World War II Story/ Laura Hillenbrand# (9 copies)
The Vanishing Half / Brit Bennett (6 copies)
Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen (10 copies)
West with Giraffes / Lynda Rutledge (8 copies)
When Stars Rain Down / Angela Jackson-Brown (6 copies)
Where the Crawdads Sing / Delia Owens (10 copies)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette / Maria Semple (8 copies)
Wild: From Lost to Found / Cheryl Strayed# (8 copies)
The Zookeeper's Wife / Diane Ackerman (8 copies)