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Listed here are discussion questions for the books the Galesburg Public Library adult book clubs have read in recent years. The most recent titles are first on the list. Click on the title of a book to see the discussion questions. (For discussion questions for the Harry Potter books, click here.)
Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
Graveminder by Melissa Marr
The Sinking of the Eastland by Jay Bonansinga
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Big Read 2013)
The Reading Promise by Alice Ozma
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Family Matters by D.C. Moses
We Have Met the Enemy: Self Control in an Age of Excess by Daniel Akst
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Goat Song by Brad Kessler
Storm Front by Jim Butcher
The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Rawhide Down by Del Quentin Wilber
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Sandburg Connection by Mark de Castrique
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Always the Young Strangers by Carl Sandburg
The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia by Mary Helen Stefaniak
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Thanksgiving by James W. Baker
The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
Bliss, Remembered by Frank Deford
Citizens of London by Lynne Olson
Great Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Big Read 2011)
The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Columbine by Dave Cullen
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Life List by Olivia Gentile
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
Eiffel's Tower by Jill Jonnes
Harry Potter & Imagination by Travis Prinzi
Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
My Antonia by Willa Cather (Big Read 2010)
The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Book Thief by Mark Zusak
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
The Man Who Invented Christmas by Les Standiford
The Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer
Those Who Favor Fire by Lauren Wolk
Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster by Karen Tintori
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
1776 by David McCullough
Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
Heyday by Kurt Andersen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Finn by Jon Clinch
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Big Read 2009)
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Stacy A. Cordery
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David O. Relin
Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J. Craughwell
The Madness of Mary Lincoln by Jason Emerson
Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind by Ann B. Ross
Angel's Rest by Charles Davis
Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink
His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley (questions in the back of the book)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Big Read 2008)
The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge by Jesse Stuart
The Sea Captain's Wife by Martha Hodes
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Mighty Fitz by Michael Schumacher
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides
The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll
When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbana Hiltebrand
The Crossing by Howard Fast
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Big Read 2007)
Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim
Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams
Summer's Lease by John Mortimer
Blue Highways by William Least Heat Moon
Three Short Stories by Truman Capote: A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, The Thanksgiving Visitor
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
To Teach To Love by Jesse Stuart
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
New members to the book clubs are always welcome!
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