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Book Club Collection: Adult Fiction

Looking for your next book club read? Check out the books in the Book Club Collection the Davenport Public Library has available.

Adult Fiction

Check out our Book Club Collection! These books are not in kits, so you can check out as many copies as you need. Discussion questions are not automatically provided with the single book club books and instead you can print the discussion questions from this LibGuide. Below you will find all of the books currently available in our book club collection.

Contact the Davenport Public Library with any questions.

Adult Fiction Titles

'A Gentleman in Moscow' by Amor Towles

'A Time to Kill' by John Grisham

'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith

'A Woman is No Man' by Etaf Rum

'All This Could Be Different' by Sarah Thankam Mathews

'All This Could Be Yours' by Jami Attenberg

'American Scholar' by Patrick E. Horrigan

'American Spy' by Lauren Wilkinson

'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones

'An Extraordinary Union' by Alyssa Cole

'Bath Haus' by PJ Vernon

'Beautiful Bastard' by Christina Lauren

'Beautiful World, Where Are You?' by Sally Rooney

'Before I Let Go' by Kennedy Ryan

'Before We Were Yours' by Lisa Wingate

'Behold the Dreamers' by Imbolo Mbue

'Beloved' by Toni Morrison

'Below Zero' by CJ Box

'Big Little Lies' by Liane Moriarty

'Big Swiss' by Jen Beagin

'Biography of X' by Catherine Lacey

'Black Cake' by Charmaine Wilkerson

'Booth' by Karen Joy Fowler

'Broken Harbor' by Tana French

'Burial Rites' by Hannah Kent

'Call Me By Your Name' by André Aciman

'Carmilla' by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

'Circe' by Madeline Miller

'City of Girls' by Elizabeth Gilbert

'Cold People' by Tom Rob Smith

'Dark Places' by Gillian Flynn

'Demon Copperhead' by Barbara Kingsolver

'Detransition, Baby' by Torrey Peters

'Difficult Women' by Roxane Gay

'Dinosaurs' by Lydia Millet

'Distant Sons' by Tim Johnston

'Emma' by Jane Austen

'Everything I Never Told You' by Celeste Ng

'Falling Home' by Karen White

'Fangirl Down' by Tessa Bailey

'Fault Lines' by Emily Itami

'Flight Behavior' by Barbara Kingsolver

'Freshwater' by Akwaeke Emezi

'Frog Music' by Emma Donoghue

'Funny Boy' by Shyam Selvadurai

'Giovanni's Room' by James Baldwin

'Good Eggs' by Rebecca Hardiman

'Hate to Want You' by Alisha Rai

'Her Majesty's Royal Coven' by Juno Dawson

'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi

'How High We Go in the Dark' by Sequoia Nagamatsu

'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith

'I Have Some Questions for You' by Rebecca Makkai

'I Who Have Never Known Men' by Jacqueline Harpman

'In Five Years' by Rebecca Serle

'Klara and the Sun' by Kazuo Ishiguro

'Lady Tan's Circle of Women' by Lisa See

'Late Bloomer' by Mazey Eddings

'Leaving Time' by Jodi Picoult

'Less' by Andrew Sean Greer

'Lessons in Chemistry' by Bonnie Garmus

'Libertie' by Kaitlyn Greenidge

'Loving Frank' by Nancy Horan

'Magic Lessons' by Alice Hoffman

'Malibu Rising' by Taylor Jenkins Reid

'Manhunt' by Gretchen Felker-Martin

'Miracle Creek' by Angie Kim

'Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore' by Robin Sloan

'Mrs. Everything' by Jennifer Weiner

'Murder on the Orient Express' by Agatha Christie

'Next Year in Havana' by Chanel Cleeton

'No! I don't want to join a book club' by Virginia Ironside

'Normal People' by Sally Rooney

'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' by Ocean Vuong

'Once There Were Wolves' by Charlotte McConaghy

'Open Season' by CJ Box

'Orphan Train' by Christina Baker Kline

'Our Darkest Night' by Jennifer Robson 

'Pachinko' by Min Jin Lee

'Patricia Wants to Cuddle' by Samantha Allen

'Portrait of a Thief' by Grace D. Li

'Queer' by William S. Burroughs

'Ready Player One' by Ernest Cline

'Red at the Bone' by Jacqueline Woodson

'Rules of Civility' by Amor Towles

'Searching for Sylvie Lee' by Jean Kwok

'She Who Became the Sun' by Shelley Parker-Chan

'Sirens & Muses' by Antonia Angress

'Smothermoss' by Alisa Alering

'Station Eleven' by Emily St. John Mandel

'Still Alice' by Lisa Genova

'Such a Fun Age' by Kiley Reid

'Take My Hand' by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

'The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle' by Stuart Turton

'The Alice Network' by Kate Quinn 

'The Apology' by Jimin Han

'The Art Forger' by B.A. Shapiro

'The Art of Racing in the Rain' by Garth Stein

'The Bee Sting' by Paul Murray

'The Beekeeper's Apprentice' by Laurie R. King

'The Big Over Easy' by Jasper Fforde

'The Book of Lost Friends' by Lisa Wingate

'The Boston Girl' by Anita Diamant

'The Buddha in the Attic' by Julie Otsuka

'The Children on the Hill' by Jennifer McMahon

'The Circle' by Dave Eggers

'The Circus Train' by Amita Parikh

'The Cuckoo's Calling' by Robert Galbraith

'The Duchess Deal' by Tessa Dare

'The Dutch House' by Ann Patchett

'The Girl on the Train' by Paula Hawkins

'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt

'The Good People' by Hannah Kent

'The Great Believers' by Rebecca Makkai

'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

'The Guest Book' by Sarah Blake

'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood

'The Hidden Child' by Camilla Lackberg

'The House in the Cerulean Sea' by TJ Klune

'The House of the Spirits' by Isabel Allende

'The Invisible Live of Addie LaRue' by V.E. Schwab

'The Invisible Man' by H.G. Wells 

'The Kindest Lie' by Nancy Johnson  

'The Kitchen House' by Kathleen Grissom  

'The Lamplighters' by Emma Stonex

'The Last Policeman' by Ben H. Winters 

'The Light Between Oceans' by M.L. Stedman 

'The Lincoln Highway' by Amor Towles

'The Lions of Fifth Avenue' by Fiona Davis  

'The Lost Apothecary' by Sarah Penner 

'The Lost Night' by Andrea Bartz 

'The Lowland' by Jhumpa Lahiri   

The Maid by Nita Prose 

The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth 

The Mothers by Brit Bennett 

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie  

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict

The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah  

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict

The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf 

'The Pairing' by Casey McQuiston

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Hegi 

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict 

The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith 

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 

The Round House by Louise Erdrich 

The Searcher by Tana French

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

'The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle' by Matt Cain

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller  

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern 

The Store by James Patterson & Richard DiLallo

The Survivors by Jane Harper 

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner 

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware 

The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn 

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman 

There There by Tommy Orange 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm 

Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

'Ursula, Under' by Ingrid Hill

'Velvet Was The Night' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter 

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster 

When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain 

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart