Book Club in a Bag is a book discussion program designed for you and your family, friends, book circle, or group to read the same book together and meet in-person or online. Each book bag kit contains ten (10) print copies of a title, a binder with discussion questions to help the conversation along and a zippered canvas bag. Any group member can check out the book bag kit for their book group. The bag will be checked out for six (6) weeks and is not renewable. Book Club kit reservations are allowed by phone only. Book club kits can be sent via delivery, but must be approved by Ben Hanley or Kyle Sousa, Information Services librarians. Available titles are listed below.
Visit the Reference Desk or call us at 401-247-1920 x2 for more information and title availability.
Book Club in a Bag is a free service provided by your library. Some book club kits are sponsored by the Friends of Barrington Public Library and the Rhode Island Center for the Book via the Reading Across Rhode Island program.
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Fiction
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
Daughters of Nantucket by Julie Gerstenblatt
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley [2022 Reading Across Rhode Island]
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon *NEW*
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V. E. Schwab
James by Percival Everett *NEW*
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar
The Measure by Nikki Erlick
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Sandwich by Catherine Newman *NEW*
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
That Summer by Jennifer Weiner
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
True Biz by Sara Novic [2023 Reading Across Rhode Island]
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Nonfiction
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Finding Me by Viola Davis
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Solito by Javier Zamora [2024 Reading Across Rhode Island]
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib [2025 Reading Across Rhode Island] *NEW*
