Barnet Book Club
- Reading groups and Barnet Book Club: how can Barnet Libraries help?
- How do I register a book club?
- How to borrow Barnet Book Club resources
- Titles available from Barnet Book Club
Reading groups and Barnet Book Club: how can Barnet Libraries help?
Are you in a book group or thinking of starting one but not sure what to do? If so, then Barnet Book Club is here to help you out.
Barnet Libraries run book clubs which meet monthly across the borough.
Details of Barnet Libraries book clubs
Not a member of a library book group? Barnet Book Club has been established to help support book groups in the community by supplying sets of popular titles for discussion. This is a free service: all you need to do is register
How do I register a book club?
- Any book group that meets in the borough of Barnet is eligible to join the scheme.
- One member of the group will need to register at a library to get a reading group ticket. We will need details of name, address, email and phone number (for use in emergencies).
- Each registered group is able to borrow up to 30 books (i.e. two collections) for up to eight weeks. There are no fines or replacement charges.
How to borrow Barnet Book Club resources
When you have made your choices from the list below please email: barnetbookclub@barnet.gov.uk with the following information:
- the chosen title and three possible alternatives
- the library from where you wish to collect the books
- the name of your group and the library ticket number.
We will contact you by email to let you know when the books have arrived at your chosen library.
Please remember to bring the library ticket with you as without it we are unable to issue the books. Once you have finished with the books please return them to any Barnet library.
Titles available from Barnet Book Club
Read a review of the Barnet Book Club titles
New titles available from September 2011
- Naomi Alderman - Disobedience
- Iain Banks - The crow road
- Jennifer Egan - A visit from the goon squad
- Sara Gruen - Water for elephants
- Emma Henderson - Grace Williams says it loud
- Amanda Hodgkinson - 22 Britainnia Road
- Susan Hill - The woman in black
- Chaim Potok - The chosen
Other titles available from Barnet Book Club
- Poppy Adams - The behaviour of moths
- Chimamanda N Adichie - Purple hibiscus
- Aravind Adiga - The white tiger
- James Baldwin - Go tell it to the mountain
- Muriel Barbary - The elegance of the hedgehog
- Sebastian Barry - The secret scripture
- John Berendt - Midnight in the garden of good and evil
- Dave Boling - Guernica
- William Boyd - Any human heart
- Elizabeth Buchan - Separate beds
- A.S. Byatt - Possession
- Truman Capote - In cold blood
- Clare Clark -Savage lands
- J M Coetzee - Summertime
- Sallie Day - The palace of strange girls
- Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame
- Emma Donoghue - Room
- Sarah Dunant - Sacred hearts
- Sebastian Faulks - A week in December
- Sebastian Faulks - Engleby
- F Scott Fitzgerald - The great Gatsby
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely loud and incredibly close
- Aminatta Forna - The memory of love
- Margaret Forster - Have men had enough?
- Patrick Gale - The whole day through
- Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, pray, love
- Philippa Gregory - The constant princess
- Kate Grenville - The lieutenant
- George Grossmith - Diary of a nobody
- Kirstan Hawkin - Dona Nicanora's hat shop
- Zoe Heller - The believers
- Victoria Hislop - The return
- Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand splendid suns
- Aldous Huxley - Brave new world
- Kazuo Ishiguro - Never let me go
- Howard Jacobson - The Finkler question
- Rona Jaffe - The best of everything
- Hillary Jordan - Mudbound
- Janice Kulyk Keefer - The ladies’ lending library
- Barbara Kingsolver - The Iacuna
- Stieg Larsson - The girl with the dragon tattoo
- Harper Lee - to kill a mockingbird
- Doris Lessing - The golden notebook
- Ira Levin - The Stepford wives
- Andrea Levy - The long song
- Carson McCullers - The heart is a lonely hunter
- Sue Monk Kidd - The secret life of bees
- Toni Morrison - Beloved
- Greg Mortenson - Three cups of tea
- Haruki Murakami - Norwegian wood
- Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
- Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran
- David Nicholls - One day
- Tea Obreht - The tiger's wife
- Maggie O'Farrell - The hand that first held mine
- Catherine O'Flynn - The news where you are
- Jodi Picoult - My sister’s keeper
- Barbara Pym - Excellent women
- Monique Roffey - The white woman on the green bicycle
- Mary Ann Shaffer - The Guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
- Rebecca Skloot - The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- Elizabeth Speller - The return of Captain John Emmett
- Kathryn Stockett - The help
- Mari Strachan - The earth hums in b flat
- Roma Teare - Brixton beach
- Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
- William Trevor - Love and summer
- Christos Tsiolkas - The slap
- Elizabeth von Armin - Enchanted April
- Edmund de Waal - The hare with the amber eyes
- Alice Walker - The color purple
- Sarah Waters - The little stranger
- Fay Weldon - Chalcot Crescent
- Edith Wharton - The house of mirth
- P G Wodehouse - Leave it to Psmith
- Markus Zusak -The book thief
The library catalogue will give you an indication of whether titles are available to borrow, but please be aware that sets awaiting collection will show as being in the library. Please contact Barnet Book Club via email to check on availability.
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