Mendocino County Library Book Club Selections

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Books for Book Club GroupsMendocino Book Club

Looking for a set of thought provoking and interesting books for your book club's next discussion? These titles are available to local book clubs, with an extended checkout period of six weeks.
 
Please use the Mendocino Book Club Request Form to inquire about availability, dates, and quantities for each title. Titles should be requested at least six weeks in advance of the date needed to ensure availability. 
 
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FICTION, SCI-FI, FANTASY & MYSTERY

American Gospel by Lin Enger

Dreams of Joy by Lisa See

The Garden of Evening Mists by Twan Eng Tan

Before you Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

Hour of Daydreams by Renee Macalino Rutledge

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Martian by Andy Weir

Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

YOUNG ADULT

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

This Place: 150 Years Retold

CHILDREN

Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan

NON-FICTION

Biographies, Autobiographies or Memoir:

Notorious RBG : The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon

Disability Visibility : First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first century edited by Alice Wong

Living Up the Street : Narrative Recollections by Gary Soto

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

The Rules Do Not Apply by Marc Levy

For Such a Time As This by Kayleigh McEnany

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Taste by Stanley Tucci

Natural History

The Seed Underground : A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray

A Sand County Almanac : With Essays on Conservation from Round River by Aldo Leopold

Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Social History: Science, Medical and Health:

Smoke Signals : A Social History of Marijuana - Medical Recreational and Scientific by Martin A. Lee

Social History: Immigration

Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez

A Dream Called Home - A Memoir by Reyna Grande

Social History- Class, Race or Gender Identity

Hood feminism : Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Stamped from the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become A Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Caste : The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson