Book Club Bag List

This is a list of the books available to CBRL Book Clubs, the majority of which have been provided through the support of New Horizons for Seniors, supplemented by generous public donations.  The list will be updated as new titled are acquired and others are retired.

For more information about joining or starting a book club at a Cape Breton Regional Library branch, or accessing CBRL’s “Book Club in a Bag” book sets as a Community Book Club, please contact your local library branch.

Click on the titles below to link to that book set in the library catalogue, for a book summary and to put that bag on hold for your next meeting.
Note: When placing a hold on a bag of books, please make sure it’s status is currently listed as ‘Available‘.  Please DO NOT place a hold on bags with any other status (eg on hold, in transit, due, etc).   Your book club may have a maximum of 2 Book Club in a Bag sets checked out or on hold at any one time.

Each title below also has a link to the book’s Goodreads web page where you can find a description, reviews and other information that might be useful.

• The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (goodreads)
• 419 by Will Ferguson (goodreads)
• Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald (goodreads)
• The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn (goodreads)
• All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (goodreads)
• All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki (goodreads)
• All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (goodreads)
• Amazing Grace by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• The Americans are Coming by Herb Curtis (goodreads)
• And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (goodreads)
• Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt (goodreads)
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter (goodreads)
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (goodreads)
• Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill (goodreads)
• Ape House by Sara Gruen (goodreads)
• The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker (goodreads)
• At Home by Bill Bryson (goodreads)
• Ava Comes Home by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• Awake at a Wake by David Muise (goodreads)
• Away by Jane Urquhart (goodreads)
• Bay of Spirits by Farley Mowat (goodreads)
• The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb (goodreads)
• Becoming by Michelle Obama (goodreads)
• Before the Poison by Peter Robinson (goodreads)
• The Beginner’s Goodbye by Ann Tyler (goodreads)
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchet (goodreads)
• Birdie by Tracy Lindberg (goodreads)
• The Birth House by Ami McKay (goodreads)
• The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre (goodreads)
• The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (goodreads)
• The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe (goodreads)
• The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (goodreads)
• The Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji (goodreads)
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (goodreads)
• The Break by Katherena Vermette (goodreads)
• Brighten the Corner Where You Are by Carol Bruneau (goodreads)
• Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (goodreads)
• The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (goodreads)
• Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (goodreads)
• Changing my Mind by Margaret Trudeau (goodreads)
• Chloe Sparrow by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• Circling the Sun, by Paula McLain (goodreads)
• Clara Callan by Richard B. Wright (goodreads)
• The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton (goodreads)
• The Color of Our Sky by Amita Trasi (goodreads)
• Come, Thou Tortoise by Jessica Grant (goodreads)
• A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews (goodreads)
• The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory (goodreads)
• Cool Water by Dianne Warren (goodreads)
• The Creation of Eve by Lynn Cullen (goodreads)
• Crow Lake by Mary Lawson (goodreads)
• Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (goodreads)
• Dance, Gladys, Dance by Cassie Stocks (goodreads)
• The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown (goodreads)
• Dear Life by Alice Munro (goodreads)
• The Deception of Livvy Higgs by Donna Morrissey (goodreads)
• The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard (goodreads)
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (goodreads)
• The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer (goodreads)
• The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston (goodreads)
• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madelein Thein (goodreads)
• The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (goodreads)
• Down the Coaltown Road by Sheldon Currie (goodreads)
• Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama (goodreads)
• The Dream Lover: A Novel of George Sand by Elizabeth Berg (goodreads)
• Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz (goodreads)
• Each Man’s Son by Hugh MacLennan (goodreads)
• Educated by Tara Westover (goodreads)
• Emancipation Day by Wayne Grady (goodreads)
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (goodreads)
• Fauna by Alissa York (goodreads)
• February by Lisa Moore (goodreads)
• Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (goodreads)
• The Film Club by David Gilmour (goodreads)
• A Forest for Calum by Frank MacDonald (goodreads)
• The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (goodreads)
• Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (goodreads)
• Galore by Michael Crummey (goodreads)
• The Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan (goodreads)
• The German Girl by Armando Lucus Correa (goodreads)
• Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (goodreads) *Available Fall 2021
• The Girl They Left Behind by Roxanne Veletzos (goodreads)
• The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls (goodreads)
• Glass Voices by Carol Bruneau (goodreads)
• The Golden Son by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (goodreads)
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (goodreads)
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows (goodreads)
• Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (goodreads)
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (goodreads)
• Heart Matters by Adrienne Clarkson (goodreads)
• Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (goodreads)
• Her Mother’s Daughter by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (goodreads)
• Hit & Mrs. by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• Home Again by Kristen Hannah (goodreads)
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (goodreads)
• The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (goodreads)
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai (goodreads)
• I Feel Great About my Hands, Shari Graydon, Ed. (goodreads)
• An Illustrated Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright (goodreads)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (goodreads)
• The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler (goodreads)
• The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji (goodreads)
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje (goodreads)
• The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (goodreads)
• Island by Alistair MacLeod (goodreads)
• Keeper of Tides by Beatrice MacNeil (goodreads)
• Kin by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• Kit’s Law by Donna Morrissey (goodreads)
• The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards (goodreads)
• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (goodreads)
• The Last Maasai Warriors by Wilson Meikuaya and Jackson Ntirkana (goodreads)
• Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay (goodreads)
• Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult (goodreads)
• Left Neglected by Lisa Genova (goodreads)
• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (goodreads)
• The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman (goodreads)
• The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catherina Ingelman-Sundberg (goodreads)
• The Long Stretch by Linden MacIntyre (goodreads)
• Love Anthony by Lisa Genova (goodreads)
• The Love Song of Miss Queen Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (goodreads)
• The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks (goodreads)
• Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (goodreads)
• Man Descending by Guy Vanderhaeghe (goodreads)
• Mary, Mary by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• The Massey Murder by Charlotte Gray (goodreads)
• Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian (goodreads)
• Memory Keeper of the Forest by Micheal Newton, ed. (goodreads)
• The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (goodreads)
• Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson (goodreads)
• More by Austin Clarke (goodreads)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (goodreads)
• My Secret Sister by Helen Edwards and Jenny Lee Smith (goodreads)
• My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (goodreads)
• Nancy’s Wedding Feast and other tasty tales by James O. St. Clair and Yvonne LeVert (goodreads)
• Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain (goodreads)
• The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney (goodreads)
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah (goodreads)
• No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod (goodreads)
• Nora Webster by Colm Toibin (goodreads)
• North of Smokey by David Doucette (goodreads)
• Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley (goodreads)
• The Nymph and the Lamp by Thomas H. Raddall (goodreads)
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (goodreads)
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (goodreads)
• On a Personal Note by Rita MacNeil (goodreads)
• Open House by Elizabeth Berg (goodreads)
• Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg (goodreads)
• Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (goodreads)
• The Outlander by Gil Adamson (goodreads)
• The Paris Wife by Paula McLain  (goodreads)
• Philomena by Martin Sixsmith (goodreads)
• The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shreve (goodreads)
• A Possible Madness by Frank MacDonald (goodreads)
• The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (goodreads)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (goodreads)
• The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley (goodreads)
• The Promised Land by Bill Conall (goodreads)
• Punishment by Linden MacIntyre (goodreads)
• Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese (goodreads)
• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (goodreads)
• The Red Tent by Anita Daimant (goodreads)
• Relative Happiness by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• Rockbound by Frank Parker Day (goodreads)
• The Rock in the Water by Bill Conall (goodreads)
• The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport (goodreads)
• Room by Emma Donoghue (goodreads)
• The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (goodreads)
• Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (goodreads)
• Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (goodreads)
• The Sea Captain’s Wife by Beth Powning (goodreads)
• The Sea of Tranquility by Lesley Choyce (goodreads)
• The Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda (goodreads)
• The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (goodreads)
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (goodreads)
• The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes (goodreads)
• Shoot Me by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski (goodreads)
• The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (pseudonym), J.K. Rowling (goodreads)
• Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup (goodreads)
• The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (goodreads)
• Song of Rita Joe by Rita Joe (goodreads)
• The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe (goodreads)
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova (goodreads)
• Still Life by Louise Penny (goodreads)
• The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence (goodreads)
• The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart (goodreads)
• The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (goodreads)
• The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (goodreads)
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult (goodreads)
• Sweetland by Michael Crummey (goodreads)
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (goodreads)
• Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb (goodreads)
• A Tale For the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (goodreads)
• The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (goodreads)
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (goodreads)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (goodreads)
• Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (goodreads)
• Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden (goodreads)
• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (goodreads)
• Tinker & Blue by Frank MacDonald (goodreads)
• Twenty-Six by Leo McKay Jr. (goodreads)
• Unless by Carol Shields (goodreads)
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachael Joyce (goodreads)
• Up and Down by Terry Fallis (goodreads)
• Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (goodreads)
• Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories by Jean Shepherd (goodreads)
• Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen (goodreads)
• The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald (goodreads)
• When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman (goodreads)
• Where I Belong by Alan Doyle (goodreads)
• Where White Horses Gallop by Beatrice MacNeil (goodreads)
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith (goodreads)
• Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clark (goodreads)
• The Winter Vault by Ann Michaels (goodreads)
• The Wonder by Emma Donoghue (goodreads)
• The Wreckage by Michael Crummey (goodreads)
• You Better Watch Out by Greg Malone (goodreads)