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Book Club Collection: Nonfiction

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

Adult Nonfiction

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.

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General Discussion Questions

Nonfiction Titles

'A Knock at Midnight' by Brittany K Barnett

'All Boys Aren’t Blue' by George M. Johnson

'American Eve' by Paula Uruburu 

'An Invisible Thread' by Laura Schroff 

'Are You My Mother? : A Comic Drama' by Alison Bechdel

'Astoria' by Peter Stark 

'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' by Katherine Boo 

'But What If We're Wrong' by Chuck Klosterman 

'Cheerful Money' by Tad Friend

'Code Girls' by Liza Mundy 

'Conan Doyle' for the Defense by Margalit Fox 

'Destiny of the Republic' by Candice Millard 

'Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World' by Naomi Klein

'Dreamland' by Sam Quinones 

'Evicted' by Matthew Desmond 

'Furiously Happy' by Jenny Lawson 

'Gender Queer' by Maia Kobabe 

'High Crimes' by Michael Kodas 

'Hijab Butch Blues' by Lamya H.

'Hillbilly Elegy' by J.D. Vance 

'How to be an Antiracist' by Ibram X. Kendi 

'I'll Be Gone in the Dark' by Michelle McNamara 

'In the Basement of the Ivory Tower' by Professor X

'Inheritance' by Dani Shapiro 

'Just Mercy' by Bryan Stevenson

'Lady Killers' by Tori Telfer 

'Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays' by Lauren Hough 

'Let's Pretend This Never Happened' by Jenny Lawson 

'Lost Girls' by Robert Kolker 

'Mindhunter' by John E. Douglas 

'Minor Feelings' by Cathy Park Hong 

'Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats' by T.S. Eliot

'Orange is the New Black' by Piper Kerman 

'Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi

'Raw Dog: The Naked Truth about Hot Dogs' by Jamie Loftus

'Sitting Pretty' by Rebekah Taussig

'Stiff' by Mary Roach 

'Survival of the Prettiest' by Nancy Etcoff 

'The Best We Could Do' by Thi Bui

'The Blood of Emmett Till' by Timothy B. Tyson 

'The Double Helix' by James D. Watson 

'The Emerald Mile' by Kevin Fedarko

'The Four Agreements' by don Miguel Ruiz

'The Girls from Ames' by Jeffrey Zaslow 

'The Good Nurse' by Charles Graeber 

'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot

'The Library Book' by Susan Orlean 

'The Man from the Train' by Bill James 

'The Poisoner's Handbook' by Deborah Blum 

'The Rage of Innocence' by Kristin Henning 

'The Real Lolita' by Sarah Weinman (large print)

'The River Queen' by Mary Morris

'The Soul of an Octopus' by Sy Montgomery 

'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule 

'The Trial of Lizzie Borden' by Cara Robertson 

'The Zookeeper's Wife' by Diane Ackerman 

'This Chair Rocks' by Ashton Applewhite

'Tiny Beautiful Things' by Cheryl Strayed 

'White Fragility' by Robin J DiAngelo

'Wild' by Cheryl Strayed