Book Club in a Bag

What is a Book Club in a Bag?

A 6 week loan (no renewals) to registered book clubs of 12 paperback copies of a book suitable for stimulating book club discussions.

How can my book club register and arrange for a loan?

Choose one member to be your representative and ask the staff at any London Public Library branch to issue your Book Club library card.

Here’s how it works:

  • An Availability Calendar will indicate all the Book Club Bag titles, when they are available, and when they are already booked
  • When you have decided on which titles and which dates you would like to book the Book Club Bags, phone 519-661-4600 and ask to speak to a library staff person about booking a Book Club Bag
  • Library staff will make the booking for you, and will ask you for booking information—your name, Book Club library card number, contact information, and where you would like to pick up and return the Bag. Have a calendar handy!
  • The Bag can be borrowed for up to 6 weeks.
  • Just a reminder: holds can no longer be placed on Book Club Bags through the catalogue

    That’s all there is to it!

    Please note: all 12 copies of the title must be borrowed with the Bag, and all 12 copies of the title must be returned in the Bag. Library Staff cannot accept returned Bags without the correct number of books inside the Bag.

What books are available?

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After Helen Canadian flag
Cavanaugh, Paul
book cover Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Atkinson, Kate
Book Cover Image Not Available Clara CallanCanadian flag
Wright, Richard
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Dead Man in ParadiseCanadian flag
MacKinnon, J.B.
book cover Ella Minnow Pea: a novel in letters
Dunn, Mark
image cover In the Lake of the Woods
O'Brien, Tim

Late Nights on Air

Elizabeth Hay

book cover The Lovely Bones
Sebold, Alice

Three Cups of Tea

Greg Mortenson

Three Day Road

Joseph Boyden

book cover LuckCanadian flag
Barfoot, Joan
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Loving Frank

Nancy Horan


The Bright Forever

Lee Martin

book jacket Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro, Kazuo

The Birth House

Ami McKay 

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The GirlsCanadian flag
Lansens, Lori

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert


History of Love

Nicole Krauss

Radiance

Shaena Lambert


 

The Gathering

Anne Enright


Ragged Company

Richard Wagamese


Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid


book cover Three Junes
Glass, Julia
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Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons
Lorna Landvik

 

 book cover image Sweetness in the BellyCanadian flag
Camilla Gibb
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Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

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Book of NegroesCanadian flag

Lawrence Hill

Book Cover Image The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
 

    Run

     Ann Patchett        

 Last Night at the Lobster

Stewart O'Nan

The Cellist of SarajevoCanadian flag

Steven Galloway

Mostly HappyCanadian flag

Pam Bustin

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 Good to a FaultCanadian flag

Marina Endicott


 

 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Mary Ann Shaffer

 

 The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

The Shack

Wm. Paul Young

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The Outlander

Gil Adamson