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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.

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.

'A Knock at Midnight' by Brittany K Barnett

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

'American Eve' by Paula Uruburu

'Code Girls' by Liza Mundy

'Furiously Happy' by Jenny Lawson

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

'In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: The Truth about College' by Professor X

'Let's Pretend This Never Happened : (a mostly true memoir)' by Jenny Lawson

'Mindhunter' by John Douglas

'Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning' by Cathy Park Hong

'Relish: My Life in the Kitchen' by Lucy Knisley

'Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers' by Mary Roach

'Survival of the Prettiest' by Nancy Etcoff

'The Best We Could Do: an illustrated memoir' by Thi Bui

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

'The Four Agreements' by Miguel Ruiz

'The Man From the Train' by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James

'The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth' by Kristin Henning

'The Soul of an Octopus' by Sy Montgomery

'The Zookeeper's Wife : a war story' by Diane Ackerman

'An Invisible Thread' by Laura Schroff

'Destiny of the Republic: a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president' by Candice Millard

'Dreamland' by Sam Quinones

'Evicted' by Matthew Desmond

'Fun Home' by Alison Bechdel

'High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed' by Michael Kodas

'How to be an Antiracist' by Ibram X Kendi

'Lady Killers' by Tori Telfer

'Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery' by Robert Kolker

'Orange is the New Black : my year in a women's prison' by Piper Kerman

'The Emerald Mile' by Kevin Fedarko

'The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship' by Jeffrey Zaslow

'The Good Nurse' by Charles Graeber

'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People to Talk about Racism' by Robin J DiAngelo

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

'Cheerful Money' by Tad Friend

'Gender Queer' by Maia Kobabe

'Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi

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

'Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's lost Pacific Empire : a tale of ambition and survival on the early American frontier' by Peter Stark

'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' by Katherine Boo

'Conan Doyle for the Defense' by Margalit Fox

'Hillbilly Elegy' by J.D. Vance

'Inheritance' by Dani Shapiro

'Just Mercy' by Bryan Stevenson

'Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing: Essays'

'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' by TS Eliot

'The Double Helix' by James D Watson

'The Library Book' by Susan Orlean

'The Poisoner's Handbook' by Deborah Blum

'The Real Lolita' by Sarah Weinman

'The River Queen: A Memoir' by Mary Morris

'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule

'The Trial of Lizzie Borden' by Cara Robertson

'This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism' by Ashton Applewhite

'Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar' by Cheryl Strayed

'Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail' by Cheryl Strayed