Book Discussion Sets

Have a book club coming up? Reserve a kit with copies (usually between 8-10) to share among your club members. 

There are more than 500 kits available for lending in the state through our membership in the Green Mountain Library Consortium (GMLC) -- and quite a few of those kits are actually available as part of our in-house collection at Burnham. 

Kits can be reserved up to one year in advance, and many come with additional materials and discussion questions related to the book.

To reserve a book discussion set:

  • Contact a Burnham staff member via phone or email so we can confirm your desired kit is available for the dates you need.
    • If the kit belongs to another library, we will place the reservation and get it delivered here. You will be contacted when the kit is ready to be picked up at Burnham. (When finished, you'll bring the kit back here for us to return to the home library.)
    • If the kit is one that we have at Burnham, please complete this agreement form and we will reserve the kit for you. If you need it immediately, it will be ready once we have that form completed; if it is for a future reservation, we will determine date for when you can come collect it.

Our Book Sets:

TitleAuthor (Last Name, First Name)
100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared, TheJonasson, Jonas
American childhood, AnDillard, Annie
Anxious PeopleBackman, Fredrik
Art forger, TheShapiro, Barbara A
Before I go to sleepWatson, S. J.
BehaveRomano-Lax, Andromeda  
Big brotherShriver, Lionel
BrewsterSlouka, Mark
Constellation of vital phenomena, AMarra, Anthony
Corrections, TheFranzen, Jonathan
Curious incident of the dog in the night-time, TheHaddon, Mark
EducatedWestover, Tara
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fineHoneyman, Gail
Everything I never told youNg, Celeste
Fighting wordsBrubaker Bradley, Kimberly
Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle cityGrandin, Greg
Fossil hunter : dinosaurs, evolution, and the woman whose discoveries        Emling, Shelley
changed the world, The 
Girls Burn BrighterRoa, Shobha
Good Lord Bird, TheMcBride, James
Gun, TheNakamura, Fuminori 
Handmaid's tale, the Atwood, Margaret
Hate u give, TheThomas, Angie
Hell and other destinations : a 21st-century memoirAlbright, Madeleine
Hours, TheCunningham, Michael
House in the Cerulean Sea, TheKlune, TJ
How far the light reaches: a life in ten sea creaturesImbler, Sabrina
How to be eatenAdelmann, Maria
Improbability of love, TheRothschild, Hannah
Interestings, TheWolitzer, Meg
JoinToutonghi, Steve
Lasagna Means I Love YouO'Shaughnessy, Kate
Life after lifeAtkinson, Kate
Lost City of the Monkey God : A true story, ThePreston, Douglas
Martian, TheWeir, Andy
Mary CoinSilver, Marisa
Miracle at St. AnnaMcBride, James
Mrs. PoeCullen, Lynn
Olga dies dreamingGonzalez, Xochitl 
Omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals, ThePollan, Michael
Paper Palace, TheHeller, Miranda Cowley
Personal librarian, TheBenedict, Marie
PriestdaddyLockwood, Patricia
Radium girls : The dark story of America's shining women, TheMoore, Kate
Returned, TheMott, Jason
Ride of her life, TheLetts, Elizabeth
Round house, TheErdrich, Louise
Saving SunshineFaruqi, Saadia
Secret of life : Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA's…, The Markel, Howard
Secret to superhuman strength, TheBechdel, Alison
Sound of gravel : a memoir, TheWariner, Ruth
Sympathizer, TheNguyen, Viet Thanh
Taste: My life through foodTucci, Stanley
Things they carried : a work of fiction, TheO'Brien, Tim
This Is How It Always IsFrankel, Laurie
Thursday Murder Club, TheOsman, Richard
Tribe : homecoming and belongingJunger, Sebastian
Unbroken : A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemptionHillenbrand, Laura
Universe of twoKiernan, Stephen P.
Unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry, TheJoyce, Rachel
Vanishing half, TheBennett, Brit
Weight of water, TheShreve, Anita
When we were orphansIshiguro, Kazuo
Where'd you go, BernadetteSemple, Maria
Yellow birds, ThePowers, Kevin