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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.

Contact the Davenport Public Library with any questions.

Printable List

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 

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

Stiff by Mary Roach 

Survival of the Prettiest by Nancy Etcoff 

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson 

The Double Helix by James D. Watson 

The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedark

The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz

The Girls from Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow 

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber 

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 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