Adult Services Book Discussion Kits The Oswego Public Library District has discussion kits available for those who need multiple copies of books for discussion groups. The kits include a tote bag, up to 10 copies of the book, discussion questions, information about the author, and sometimes other materials to enhance the reading experience. Please contact Adult Services at 630-978-1024 for more information or to reserve a kit. Guidelines for Use The loan period for book discussion kits is 6 weeks. They may not be renewed. Holds may not be placed on book discussion kits. However, kits may be reserved in advance by contacting Adult Services. Reserved kits should be picked up at the Adult Services Desk and taken to the Circulation Desk for checkout. Kits are checked out to one person. Members of the group should get their books from the person who checked out the kit. The person who checks out the kit is responsible for returning the complete kit. The fine for overdue book discussion kits is 20¢ per item per day, including the bag, each book, and any other material checked out as part of the kit. There is no grace period. Title List of Adult Services Book Discussion Kits Please click on a book title to link to the Oswego Public Library District catalog, where you'll find plot summaries and reviews. A – C D – F G – I J – L M – O P – R S – U V - Z A - C The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Discussion Guide The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson Discussion Guide After This by Alice McDermott Discussion Guide Aleph by Paulo Coelho Discussion Guide All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews Discussion Guide All Other Nights by Dara Horn Discussion Guide All Over But the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg Discussion Guide And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Discussion Guide The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker Discussion Guide The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Discussion Guide Arthur & George by Julian Barnes NEW! Discussion Guide Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann Discussion Guide The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin Discussion Guide Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gail Parkin Discussion Guide Before the Fall by Noah Hawley NEW! Discussion Guide Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Discussion Guide Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue NEW! Discussion Guide Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Discussion Guide The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood NEW! Discussion Guide Bittersweet by Colleen McCullough Discussion Guide The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Discussion Guide The Book of Secrets by Elizabeth Joy Arnold Discussion Guide The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai Discussion Guide The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Discussion Guide The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka Discussion Guide The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout Discussion Guide Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Discussion Guide Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Discussion Guide The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton Discussion Guide Case Histories by Kate Atkinson Discussion Guide The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway Discussion Guide A Change of Heart by Sonali Dev NEW! Discussion Guide Circling the Sun by Paula McLain Discussion Guide The Circus Fire by Stewart O’Nan Discussion Guide City of Thieves by Dave Benioff Discussion Guide Clara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland Discussion Guide The Comet Seekers by Helen Sedgwick NEW! Discussion Guide Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray NEW! Discussion Guide The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths NEW! Discussion Guide The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith Discussion Guide The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Discussion Guide Cutting for Stone by A. Verghese Discussion Guide D – F Dark Matter by Blake Crouch NEW! Discussion Guide Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James Discussion Guide Defending Jacob by William Landay Discussion Guide Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard Discussion Guide The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Discussion Guide The Dinner by Herman Koch Discussion Guide The Dream Lover by Elizabeth Berg Discussion Guide The Dry by Jane Harper NEW! Discussion Guide Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert Discussion Guide The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery Discussion Guide Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey Discussion Guide Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman Discussion Guide Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper Discussion Guide Euphoria by Lily King Discussion Guide Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng NEW! Discussion Guide The Expats by Chris Pavone Discussion Guide A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner NEW! Discussion Guide A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Discussion Guide Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski Discussion Guide Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Discussion Guide The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton Discussion Guide Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas Discussion Guide G – I Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City, 1837-1990 by Richard C. Lindberg Discussion Guide Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers Discussion Guide Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok Discussion Guide The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson Discussion Guide The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan Discussion Guide The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls Discussion Guide The Good Girl by Mary Kubica Discussion Guide Great House by Nicole Krauss Discussion Guide The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Discussion Guide The Harder They Come by T.C. Boyle Discussion Guide Headhunters on My Doorstep: A True Treasure Island Ghost Story by J. Maarten Troost Discussion Guide Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill Discussion Guide The Help by Kathryn Stockett Discussion Guide Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi NEW! Discussion Guide Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford Discussion Guide The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz NEW! Discussion Guide The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty Discussion Guide The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Discussion Guide In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Discussion Guide In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume NEW! Discussion Guide In the Woods by Tana French Discussion Guide Innocence Betrayed by Richard Gove Discussion Guide The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf NEW! Discussion Guide J – L Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez with Kristin Ohlson Discussion Guide The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood Discussion Guide Killer Stuff by Sharon Fiffer Discussion Guide Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann NEW! Discussion Guide Killing Floor by Lee Child NEW! Discussion Guide The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson Discussion Guide The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom Discussion Guide The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh Discussion Guide The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: a Memoir by Bill Bryson Discussion Guide Life of Pi by Yann Martel Discussion Guide The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Discussion Guide Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly NEW! Discussion Guide Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney NEW! Discussion Guide Little Children by Tom Perrotta Discussion Guide Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Discussion Guide The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston NEW! Discussion Guide Loving Frank by Nancy Horan Discussion Guide M – O Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Discussion Guide Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson Discussion Guide A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman Discussion Guide March by Geraldine Brooks Discussion Guide The Martian by Andy Weir Discussion Guide Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Discussion Guide The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall Discussion Guide Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall Discussion Guide Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones Discussion Guide The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills Discussion Guide Moloka'i by Alan Brennert Discussion Guide Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal Discussion Guide Mrs. Kennedy and Me by Clint Hill Discussion Guide My Ántonia by Willa Cather Discussion Guide My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Discussion Guide Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon NEW! Discussion Guide The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri Discussion Guide The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Discussion Guide The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah NEW! Discussion Guide The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Discussion Guide No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts NEW! Discussion Guide The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Discussion Guide Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Discussion Guide One Good Dog by Susan Wilson Discussion Guide Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman Discussion Guide Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger Discussion Guide The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson NEW! Discussion Guide Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline Discussion Guide The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict NEW! Discussion Guide The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell Discussion Guide The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore Discussion Guide P – R The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Discussion Guide Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Discussion Guide The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett NEW! Discussion Guide Please Look After Mom Kyong-suk Sin Discussion Guide The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Discussion Guide Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson NEW! Discussion Guide The Ranger by Ace Atkins NEW! Discussion Guide The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Discussion Guide Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi Discussion Guide Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier Discussion Guide The Road by Cormac McCarthy Discussion Guide Room by Emma Donoghue Discussion Guide The Rosie Project by Graeme C. Simsion Discussion Guide The Round House by Louise Erdrich Discussion Guide S – U The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian Discussion Guide Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay Discussion Guide Seabiscuit by Lauren Hillenbrand Discussion Guide The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers NEW! Discussion Guide The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry Discussion Guide Secrets of Sloane House by Shelley Shepard Gray Discussion Guide See Also Murder by Larry D. Sweazy Discussion Guide The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Discussion Guide Shanghai Girls by Lisa See Discussion Guide The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani Discussion Guide The Sinking of the Eastland by Jay R. Bonansinga Discussion Guide Sister by Rosamund Lupton Discussion Guide The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt NEW! Discussion Guide Small Island by Andrea Levy Discussion Guide Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman NEW! Discussion Guide Some Luck by Jane Smiley NEW! Discussion Guide The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar Discussion guide Spirit of Steamboat by Craig Johnson Discussion Guide Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg Discussion Guide State of Wonder by Ann Patchett Discussion Guide Still Alice by Lisa Genova Discussion Guide Still Life by Louise Penny Discussion Guide The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Discussion Guide A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle Discussion Guide The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan C. Bradley Discussion Guide Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs by Heather Lende Discussion Guide Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner Discussion Guide Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald NEW! Discussion Guide The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult Discussion Guide The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Discussion Guide This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel NEW! Discussion Guide Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum Discussion Guide The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht Discussion Guide Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck NEW! Discussion Guide A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Discussion Guide Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Discussion Guide Unfinished Desires by Gail Godwin Discussion Guide The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Discussion Guide Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan Discussion Guide An Unsuitable Job for A Woman by P.D. James Discussion Guide V – Z The Violets of March by Sarah Jio Discussion Guide A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff Discussion Guide A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Discussion Guide The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Discussion Guide Washington Square by Henry James Discussion Guide Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen Discussion Guide We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler Discussion Guide Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez Discussion Guide What We Keep by Elizabeth Berg Discussion Guide When the Moon Is Low by Nadia Hashimi Discussion Guide Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple Discussion Guide Without Reservations by Alice Steinbach Discussion Guide Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Suki Kim NEW! Discussion Guide The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware NEW! Discussion Guide The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Discussion Guide Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek Discussion Guide World's Greatest Sleuth! by Steve Hockensmith Discussion Guide The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Discussion Guide The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol Discussion Guide The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg Discussion Guide The Year We Left Home by Jean Thompson Discussion Guide The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon Discussion Guide Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Fowler Discussion Guide Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Discussion Guide The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman Discussion Guide