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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 Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping' by Sangu Mandanna

'A Woman is No Man' by Etaf Rum

'Against the Loveless World' by Susan Abulhawa

'All Fours' by Miranda July

'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

'Assistant to the Villain' by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

'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

'Bury Your Gays' by Chuck Tingle

'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

'Honey and Spice' by Bolu Babalola

'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

'Infinite Country' by Patricia Engel

'Kiss Me, Maybe' by Gabriella Gamez

'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

'Listen for the Lie' by Amy Tintera

'Living in Your Light' by Amdellah Taia and Emma Ramadan

'Love at First Sighting' by Mallory Marlowe

'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

'One Perfect Couple' by Ruth Ware

'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

'Remarkably Bright Creatures' by Shelby Van Pelt

'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

'Stone Blind' by Natalie Haynes

'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 Bandit Queens' by Parini Shroff

'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 Charm Offensive' by Alison Cochrun

'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 Palace of Eros' by Caro de Robertis

'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 Princess and the PI' by Nikki Payne

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