Regular Print Book Discussion Kits Genre List

Available at KDLA

Updated 5/10/17

Biography/Autobiography:

  • 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood
  • Abigail Adams by Woody Holton
  • An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood by Jimmy Carter
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
  • Below Stairs: the Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey by Margaret Powell
  • Bone Black by bell hooks
  • Boone, a Biographyby Robert Morgan
  • Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff
  • The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
  • Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting by Michael Perry
  • Don't Sing at the Table: Life Lessons from my Grandmothers by Adriana Trigiani
  • Don't You Remember? A Memoir by George Ella Lyon
  • Driving Over Lemons: an Optimist in Spain by Chris Stewart
  • Emma's War by Deborah Scroggins
  • The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
  • Grant and Twain: the Story of an American Friendship by Mark Perry
  • Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: the True Story of a Great American Road Trip by Matthew Algeo
  • I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams by Patrick Henry Hughes
  • I Choose to be Happy: a School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy by Missy Jenkins ; with William Croyle
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
  • Imperfect Endings: a Daughter's Tale of Life and Death by Zoe FitzGerald Carter
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
  • Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm during the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish
  • Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn; with George Vecsey
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt
  • Nothing Daunted: the Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden
  • Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall
  • A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean by Tori Murden McClure
  • The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: a Love Story by Ree Drummond
  • Pontius Pilate by Ann Wroe
  • Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
  • Seabiscuit, an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Secretariat by William Nack
  • Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jailby Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi
  • Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
  • Then They Came for Me: a Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari; with Aimee Molloy
  • Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace-- One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
  • The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kim Michele Richardson
  • Wesley the Owl: the Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl by Stacey O'Brien
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Christian Fiction:

  • The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
  • The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson
  • Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright
  • The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz
  • The Covenant by Beverly Lewis
  • God's Gift by Dee Henderson
  • Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
  • Peace: a Crittenden County Christmas Novel by Shelley Shepard Gray
  • Saturday Morning by Lauraine Snelling
  • The Song of Hannah: a Novelby Eva Etzioni-Halevy
  • Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick
  • The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter
  • Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith
  • Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson
  • To Die For: a Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd
  • Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson
  • Unwrapping Christmas by Lori Copeland
  • The Wednesday Letters: a Novel by Jason F. Wright

Classics:

  • 1984: a Novel by George Orwell
  • Animal Farm: a Fairy Story by George Orwell
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • My Ántonia by Willa Cather
  • O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

General Fiction:

  • 1984: a Novel by George Orwell
  • Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles
  • After You by Julie Buxbaum
  • All the Living by C. E. Morgan
  • Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
  • Animal Farm: a Fairy Story by George Orwell
  • The Art of Fielding: a Novel by Chad Harbach
  • The Art of Racing in the Rain: a Novel by Garth Stein
  • At the Breakers by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
  • The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb
  • Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani
  • Bloodroot: a Novel by Amy Greene
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  • Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
  • Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
  • Calling Home by Janna McMahan
  • Can't Wait To Get To Heaven: a novel by Fannie Flagg
  • Chinaberry by James Still
  • The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
  • Christmas Jars by Jason F. Wright
  • A Christmas Memory; One Christmas; The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote
  • The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Christmas Stories edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
  • Christmas with Tucker by Greg Kincaid
  • Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
  • The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  • Come Walk With Me by Joan Medlicott
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
  • The Conjurer's Bird, a novel by Martin Davies
  • The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
  • Creekside: an Archaeological Novel by Kelli Carmean
  • Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
  • Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
  • Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
  • Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
  • Deep Down True by Juliette Fay
  • The Descendants: a Novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • The Devil Amongst the Lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb
  • A Dog Named Christmas by Greg Kincaid
  • The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
  • Eli the Goodby Silas House
  • The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles
  • The English Patient: a novel by Michael Ondaatje
  • Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
  • Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
  • Everything is Illuminated: a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Family Linen by Lee Smith
  • Far From Good by Stephen Van Zant
  • Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Forgotten Garden: a Novel by Kate Morton
  • Four Spirits, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
  • Gap Creek: a Novel by Robert Morgan
  • A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
  • Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
  • Girl with a Pearl Earringby Tracy Chevalier
  • Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
  • The Good Thief: a Novel by Hannah Tinti
  • The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • Hannah Coulter: a novel by Wendell Berry
  • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss
  • The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
  • Home to Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
  • Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  • In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
  • The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
  • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
  • The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
  • Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
  • Life After Life by by Kate Atkinson
  • The Life You've Imagined by Kristina Riggle
  • The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan
  • The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
  • Little Black Dress by Susan McBride
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • March by Geraldine Brooks
  • Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
  • The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
  • Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
  • The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: a novel by Brady Udall
  • Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies
  • My Ántonia by Willa Cather
  • My Sister's Keeper: a novel by Jodi Picoult
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman
  • O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  • Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
  • One Day by David Nicholls
  • Our Kind: a novel by Kate Walbert
  • Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
  • The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
  • The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
  • Pawleys Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
  • Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
  • People of the Book: a Novel by Geraldine Brooks
  • Pickering’s Mountain by Joseph G. Anthony
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • Plum Wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer
  • Pope Joan, a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
  • Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
  • Prayers and Lies by Sherri Wood Emmons
  • Prodigal Summer: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Push: a Novel by Sapphire [basis for the movie Precious]
  • The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker
  • The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin
  • A Redbird Christmas: a novel by Fannie Flagg
  • The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty
  • Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
  • River of Earth by James Still
  • The River Wife by Jonis Agee
  • Room by Emma Donoghue
  • Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  • Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro
  • Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
  • The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick
  • Shine by Mark Heinz
  • Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
  • Sing You Home: a Novel by Jodi Picoult
  • The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts
  • The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
  • The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: a Novel by David Wroblewski
  • Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
  • Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson
  • These Things Hidden by Heather Gudenkauf
  • This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
  • Thistles by Charles L. Roe
  • The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
  • To Dance with the White Dog, a Novel of Life, Loss, Mystery, and Hope by Terry Kay
  • The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
  • Tracks: a Novel by Louise Erdrich
  • Up From the Blue by Susan Henderson
  • Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
  • Velva Jean Learns to Drive by Jennifer Niven
  • Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
  • Walking to Gatlinburg: a Novel by Howard Frank Mosher
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • We Need to Talk about Kevin: a Novel by Lionel Shriver
  • The Wednesday Letters: a Novel by Jason F. Wright
  • Winter's Bone: a Novel by Daniel Woodrell
  • Wish You Well by David Baldacci
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Historical Fiction:

  • Absolution by Murder: a Sister Fidelma mystery by Peter Tremayne
  • Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie; translated from the French by Ina Rilke
  • Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors
  • Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani
  • Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
  • Chinaberry by James Still
  • The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz
  • The Conjurer's Bird, a novel by Martin Davies
  • The Cypress House by Michael Koryta
  • The Devil Amongst the Lawyers by Sharyn McCrumb
  • The Dry Grass of August by Anna Jean Mayhew
  • The Eight: a Novel by Katherine Neville
  • Eli the Good by Silas House
  • The English Patient: a novel by Michael Ondaatje
  • Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
  • Four Spirits, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
  • Gap Creek: a Novel by Robert Morgan
  • Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
  • The Good Thief: a Novel by Hannah Tinti
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
  • Harriet and Isabella by Patricia O’Brien
  • Honolulu by Alan Brennert
  • The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
  • The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  • The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom
  • Lucy's Story: Right Choices but Wrongs Still Left authored by Larry Hamilton; written by Christina DeLaet
  • March by Geraldine Brooks
  • The Mischief of the Mistletoe: [a pink carnation Christmas] by Lauren Willig
  • O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
  • One Thousand White Women: the Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
  • People of the Book: a Novel by Geraldine Brooks
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  • Pope Joan, a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
  • The Queen of Palmyra by Minrose Gwin
  • The Rebel Wife by Taylor M. Polites
  • The River Wife by Jonis Agee
  • Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
  • The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick
  • Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill
  • Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor
  • The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
  • The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee
  • To Die For: a Novel of Anne Boleyn by Sandra Byrd
  • Tracks: a Novel by Louise Erdrich
  • Walking to Gatlinburg: a Novel by Howard Frank Mosher
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • Widder’s Landing by Eddie Price
  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

History:

  • 1776 by David McCullough
  • Bloody Crimes: the Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse by James L. Swanson
  • Cleopatra: a Life by Stacy Schiff
  • Grant and Twain: the Story of an American Friendship by Mark Perry
  • House of Abraham, Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen Berry
  • I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
  • Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott
  • Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong
  • Manhunt: the Twelve-day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
  • Rin Tin Tin: the Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
  • Seabiscuit, an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Then They Came for Me: a Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival by Maziar Bahari; with Aimee Molloy
  • Trapped!: the Story of Floyd Collinsby Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker

Kentucky Authors or about Kentucky:

  • A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
  • Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles
  • Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer, a novel by Sena Jeter Naslund
  • All the Living by C. E. Morgan
  • At the Breakers by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
  • The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton
  • Bone Black by bell hooks
  • Boone, a Biography by Robert Morgan
  • Calling Home by Janna McMahan
  • Chinaberry by James Still
  • Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
  • Clear Springs by Bobbie Ann Mason
  • The Coal Tattoo by Silas House
  • The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz
  • Cornbread Mafia: a Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by James Higdon
  • Creekside: an Archaeological Novel by Kelli Carmean
  • The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow
  • Don't You Remember? A Memoir by George Ella Lyon
  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
  • Eli the Good by Silas House
  • The Enduring Hills by Janice Holt Giles
  • Far From Good by Stephen Van Zant
  • Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Hannah Coulter: a novel by Wendell Berry
  • Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia by Chris Holbrook
  • House of Abraham, Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War by Stephen Berry
  • I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams by Patrick Henry Hughes
  • I Choose to be Happy: a School Shooting Survivor's Triumph Over Tragedy by Missy Jenkins ; with William Croyle
  • Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
  • In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason
  • I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land, a Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
  • Inside the Beverly Hills Supper Club Fire by Ron Elliott
  • Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride: Poems by Frank X Walker
  • Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
  • Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
  • A Jesse Stuart Reader, selected and introduced by Jesse Stuart
  • Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter by Loretta Lynn; with George Vecsey
  • Lucy's Story: Right Choices but Wrongs Still Left authored by Larry Hamilton; written by Christina DeLaet
  • Many Storied House by George Ella Lyon
  • Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
  • The Memory of Old Jack by Wendell Berry
  • Murder and Madness by Matthew G. Schoenbachler
  • No Heroes: a Memoir of Coming Home by Chris Offutt
  • Obedience, a novel by Will Lavender
  • Passing for Black, the Life and Careers of Mae Street Kidd by Wade Hall
  • The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
  • Pickering’s Mountain by Joseph G. Anthony
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Prince of Sin City by Gary P. Walton
  • Prodigal Summer: a novel by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker
  • River of Earth by James Still
  • The Scourges of Heaven by David Dick
  • Shine by Mark Heinz
  • The Sisters by Nancy Jensen
  • The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
  • Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith
  • Sue Mundy, a Novel of the Civil War by Richard Taylor
  • Sweetwater Run by Jan Watson
  • Thistles by Charles L. Roe
  • Trapped!: the Story of Floyd Collins by Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Brucker
  • Troublesome Creek by Jan Watson
  • The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee
  • The Unbreakable Child: A Story about Forgiving the Unforgivable by Kim Michele Richardson
  • Widder’s Landing by Eddie Price
  • Wild Ride: the Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynastyby Ann Hagedorn

Love Stories:

  • Act of Contrition by Janice Holt Giles
  • All the Living by C. E. Morgan
  • Atonement by Ian McEwan
  • The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb
  • Beneath a Marble Sky: a Love Story by John Shors
  • Big Stone Gap, a novel by Adriana Trigiani
  • Call Me Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber
  • Casting Off by Nicole R. Dickson
  • The Colonel's Lady: a Novel by Laura Frantz
  • Daughter of Fortune, a novel by Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden
  • Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
  • Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
  • God's Gift by Dee Henderson
  • Juliet by Anne Fortier
  • The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
  • Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The Mischief of the Mistletoe: [a pink carnation Christmas] by Lauren Willig
  • Night Ride Home by Barbara Esstman
  • Nine Lives by Sharon Sala
  • One Day by David Nicholls
  • Our Kind: a novel by Kate Walbert
  • Peace: a Crittenden County Christmas Novel by Shelley Shepard Gray
  • Plum Wine: a novel by Angela Davis-Gardner
  • Revenge of the Middle-aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
  • The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts
  • Sophie's Heart by Lori Wick
  • The Storekeeper's Daughter by Wanda E. Brunstetter
  • Stuck in the Middle: a novel by Virginia Smith
  • Summer Rental by Mary Kay Andrews
  • The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
  • The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Julia Stuart
  • The Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee
  • Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels

Mystery/Suspense: