Book Bunches

JPL and the Friends of the Jacksonville Public Library present

Everything you need to start your very own book club! *
* (Coffee Not Included)

Book Bunches encourages the development of book clubs. We provide you with all the necessary tools in one easy to check out tote-bag to initiate and foster book discussions. The titles available include both adult and teen books, fiction and nonfiction, and new books as well as old classics.

List of Available Titles:

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
• Sledding Hill by Chris Cutcher
• Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
• Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
• Be More Chill: A Novel by Noel Vizzini
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
• Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar
• Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
• Vampire High by Douglass Rees
• Godless by Pete Hautman
• Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
• No Body's Perfect by Kimberley Kirberger

Here's what you get in your tote:

• Multiple copies of the title book
• CD and Large Print copies (when available)
• Related FAQ's
• Book Reviews
• Author Biographies
• Information on how to start a book discussion group

The tote checkout period is for six weeks and cannot be renewed.
It can be returned to any of our locations. Overdue fines are $1.00 per day.

Further information on book clubs and book club conventions:

Book Clubs Resource - Reading Group Guides - Book Muse - BookGroupExpo.com

Sources for book reviews and title suggestions:

Book Browse - Random House - Penguin Group - Harper Collins - Henry Holt

(You can also visit our NoveList database available via the JPL site)

Further reading about Book Clubs that can be found in our collection:

Reading Oprah : how Oprah's book club changed the way America reads by Cecilia K. Farr
Good Books Lately : the one-stop resource for book groups and other greedy readers by Ellen Moore
Book clubs : women and the uses of reading in everyday life by Elizabeth Long
The Reading Group Handbook by Rachel W. Jacobsohn
Teen book discussion groups @ the library by Constance B. Dickerson

For more information please call 630-2665