Book Club in a Box

Book Club in a Box provides an all-in-one check-out for book clubs, with everything in one bag that book clubs need for a great discussion. These are an excellent resource for your book group!

In each box you will find:

• 10 copies of the book
• A binder full of information about the author, discussion questions, reviews, interviews and more
  
  

How to Check Out a Book Club in a Box

• Boxes are stored at the Main Library, First Floor Page Desk. If the catalog says “Check Shelf,” please ask Page Desk staff to retrieve it for you.
• You may place a hold on a specific Book Club in a Box title in the catalog and request to pick it up from any library location.
• The loan period is 6 weeks and the box may be renewed up to 3 times if there are no existing holds.
• Two boxes may be checked out at any one time
• The box will be checked out on the library card of the person picking up the box. That person is responsible for the return of the box and all of its contents.
  
  

Returning the Boxes:

• Carefully check contents before returning the box.
• Boxes must be returned by handing them to a staff member at any SFPL location
• Do not put boxes in a bookdrop.
• Late fees are the same as for a book. See fine structure here: http://sfpl.org/services/fines.htm
• Replacement cost of an entire Book Club in a Box is fair market value, not to exceed $150
• The replacement charge for individual items in the box will include actual cost of the item and a processing fee.
  
  

Available Book Club Titles

Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer

The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

Intuition by Allegra Goodman

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka