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The Penfield Public Library has a collection of books specially curated for book clubs along with a selection of "Build Your Own Book Club" tote bags reserved just for book clubs! The loan period for the books and sturdy tote bag is eight weeks. To check on the availability of a certain title, please call the Information Desk at (585) 340-8720. Peruse our selection of fiction and nonfiction book club titles below.

Fiction Titles

Anything Is Possible

by Elizabeth Strout

Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney

The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri

Black Cake
by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel

The Candy House
Jennifer Egan

Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr

The Cuban Affair
by Nelson DeMille

The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn

Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
by Kristin Harmel

The Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah

French Braid
by Anne Tyler

Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich

A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles

The Girl in His Shadow
by Audrey Blake

The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré

The Guest List
by Lucy Foley

Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead

Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott

Her Hidden Genius
by Marie Benedict

The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

House of Names
by Colm Tóibín

The Island of Missing Trees
by Elif Shafak

Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles

The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig

My Ántonia
by Willa Cather

Of Women and Salt
by Gabriela Garcia

Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng

The Paris Library
by Janet Skeslien Charles

Peaces
by Helen Oyeyemi

The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Sea of Tranquility
by Emily St. John Mandel

The Secret Chord
by Geraldine Brooks

The Sentence
by Louise Erdrich

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
by Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides

The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris

Trust
by Hernán Díaz

The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett

Violeta
by Isabel Allende

West with Giraffes
by Lynda Rutledge

We Were the Lucky Ones
by Georgia Hunter

Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens

Nonfiction Titles

Adolfo Kaminsky: a Forger's Life
by Sarah Kaminsky

The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown

Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Cloister Walk
by Kathleen Norris

Dead Wake
by Eric Larson

The Distance Between Us
by Reyna Grande

The Doctors Blackwell
by Janice P. Nimura

Educated: a Memoir
by Tara Westover

The Feather Thief
by Kirk Johnson

Fierce Love
by Jacqueline J. Lewis

The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben

I Am Malala
by Malala Yousafzai

Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson

The Library Book
by Susan Orlean

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
by Emmanuel Acho