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 BOOKS TO GO ! Your Library

Have you always wanted to get a book club off the ground and weren't sure where to start? Do you already belong to a book group, but you need assistance with reserved copies, discussion questions, and author biographical information? Then the Prince William Public Library System's BOOKS TO GO! is for you! Bull Run Regional Library, Central Community Library, Chinn Park Regional Library, and Potomac Community Library
each carry 18 book kits. Kits include 10 copies of a title, a notebook with supplemental discussion materials, and contact information for further assistance. The kits circulate for a six week period and are renewable.


These are the titles currently owned by:

Bull Run Regional Library
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols
My Antonia by Willa Cather
One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
    by Michael Dorris
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,
    by Maya Angelou
The 13th Tale by Diane Setterfield
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My Grandfather’s Blessings
    by Rachel Naomi Remen
China Star by Bartle Bull

Chinn Park Regional Library
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
    by Lisa See
The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
    by Jung Chang
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Digging to America by Anne Tyler
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Central Neighborhood Library
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in
     t he  Night-time by Mark Haddon
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search
    Everything Across Italy, India, Indonesia
    by Elizabeth Gilbert
Potomac Neighborhood Library
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
    by Dai Sijie
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute
    to His White Mother by James McBride
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
    by Alexander McCall Smith
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Samari’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neal Hurston
Freshwater Road by Denis Nicholas
Waiting by Ha Jin
Persuasion by Jane Austen