Book Club

Reading doesn't have to be a solitary passion...

Darebin Libraries can support your community book club by providing you with our book packs. Each pack contains ten copies of the one title and includes notes and discussion questions.

Fees to use the book packs are:

$27.00 per book pack (10 copies)

The books will be issued to your Darebin Libraries membership card for a loan period of 6 weeks.

Please see a current list of the titles available below.

Please contact us to find out more.

Book Pack Titles

All that I am by Anna Funder - new in 2013
American journey by Don Watson
Animal Kingdom: A crime story by Stephen Sewell
Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Below the styx by Michael Meehan
Bereft by Chris Womersley
Book of lost threads by Tess Evans
The book thief by Markus Zusak
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The caged virgin: a Muslim woman's cry for reason by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Cooee by Vivienne Kelly
The daughters of Mars by Tom Keneally - new in 2013
The diggers rest hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin
Exit ghost by Philip Roth
A Fortunate life by A. B. Facey
Flying with paper wings by Sandy Jeffs 
Foal's bread by Gillian Mears - new in 2013
Follow the rabbit-proof fence by Doris Pilkington
The God delusion by Richard Dawkins
Gone girl by Gillian Flynn - new in 2013
Gould's book of fish by Richard Flanagan
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Schaffer
The hand that first held mine by Maggie O'Farrell
The Happiest Refugee: My journey from tragedy to comedy by Anh Do
The hare with amber eyes by Edmund de Waal - new in 2013
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The housekeeper and the professor by Yoko Ogawa
The household guide to dying by Debra Adelaide
Into the woods: the battle for Tasmania's forests by Anna Krien
Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey - new in 2013
Joe Cinque's consolation by Helen Garner
Landscape of farewell by Alex Miller
Life of Pi by Yann Martel - new in 2013
The little stranger by Sarah Waters
The lost mother by Anne Summers
Lovesong by Alex Miller
The man who loved children by Christina Stead
The master by Colm Toibin
The memory keeper's daughter by Kim Edwards
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Mr. Rosenblum's list by Natasha Solomons - new in 2013
People of the book by Geraldine Brooks
Piano lessons by Anna Goldsworthy
The Poisonwood bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The red tent by Anita Diamant
Rocks in the belly by Jon Bauer
Scraps of Heaven by Arnold Zable
The sense of an ending by Julian Barnes - new in 2013
The shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The shaking woman by Siri Hustvedt
Skios by Michael Frayn - new in 2013
Sold by Brendan Gullifer
Steal you away by Niccolo Ammaniti
Stealing Picasso by Anson Cameron
Summertime by J M Coetzee
The tall man: death and life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
This is how by M J Hyland
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Things we didn't see coming by Steven Amsterdam
The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffeneger
The uncommon reader by Alan Bennett
Three Cups of Tea: One man’s mission to promote peace…one school at a time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Unpolished gem by Alice Pung
A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - new in 2013
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver
What was lost by Catherine O'Flynn
When you are engulfed in flames by David Sedaris
White tiger by Aravind Adiga
The world beneath by Cate Kennedy 

Thinking of starting your own Book Club?

BookBrowse is a great website which can help you create and moderate your own club.  Now you can enjoy discussing new and exciting books in the comfort of your own home with friends and neighbours.

LitLovers is a website about how we read, what we read and how we think about our reading. It has lots of useful resources for Book Clubs including most popular Book Club books, how to start a Book Club, how to discuss a book and lots more.