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Have a book club coming up? Reserve a kit with 10 copies to share among your club members. Several kits are in-house and come with some information and discussion questions. Over 100 other kits are possible to borrow through our collaboration with other Vermont libraries. Ask a staff member to help you place a reservation today.
Burnham Owned Titles
- The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
- The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro
- Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
- Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
- Brewster by Mark Slouka
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- Fordlandia by Greg Grandin
- The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
- The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura
- Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothchild
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
- Join by Steve Toutonghi
- Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen
- Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- The Returned by Jason Mott
- The Round House by Louise Erdrich
- The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Where’d You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
- The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
Book Kits from Other Libraries
| 100 Great Short Stories |
| 44 Scotland Street |
| 84, Charing Cross Road |
| A Beautiful Place to Die |
| A Beauty |
| A Christmas Carol |
| A door in the earth |
| A Gentleman in Moscow |
| A god in ruins |
| A Heart in a Body in the World |
| A Jewish Refugee in New York |
| A loyal character dancer |
| A man called Ove |
| A Man Called Ove |
| A path appears : transforming lives, creating opportunity |
| A Room with a View |
| A Streetcar Named Desire |
| All That I Have |
| All That is Solid Melts into Air |
| All the light we cannot see |
| All The Light We Cannot See |
| All the Names |
| All the Ugly and Wonderful Things |
| Aloha kitchen: recipes from Hawaii |
| American Born Chinese |
| American gods |
| American Wife : A Novel |
| Americanah |
| An American marriage |
| An American Marriage |
| An Irish Country Doctor |
| Artic Drift |
| Ask again, yes |
| Asymmetry: a novel |
| Basic fermentation |
| Beautiful ruins |
| Because of Winn-Dixie |
| Becoming |
| Becoming |
| Before We Were Yours |
| Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity |
| Behind the Scenes at the Museum |
| Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end |
| Bel Canto |
| Bellweather Rhapsody |
| Beloved |
| Between the world and me |
| Blind Justice |
| Book thief |
| Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood |
| Boys in the Boat |
| Braiding sweetgrass |
| Bridge of Clay |
| Britt-Marie was here : a novel |
| Brooklyn |
| Brown girl dreaming |
| Bull Run |
| Calypso |
| Cannery Row |
| Can't we talk about something more pleasant? [graphic novel] |
| City of Thieves |
| Clan of the Cave Bear |
| Clementine |
| Coal River |
| Coconuts & collards : recipes and stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South |
| Commonwealth : a novel |
| Consuming kids: protecting our children from the onslaught of marketing and advertising |
| Coraline |
| Counting on Grace |
| Crossing to safety |
| Cutting for stone : a novel |
| Dandelion Wine |
| David Copperfield |
| Deep down dark : the untold stories of 33 men buried in a Chilean mine ... |
| Delta Wedding |
| Devotions : the selected poems of Mary Oliver |
| Displacement: A Travelogue |
| Divergent |
| Don't let my baby do rodeo : a novel |
| Dracula |
| Dreamland : the true tale of America's opiate epidemic |
| Educated : a memoir |
| Emily, Alone |
| Emma |
| Ender's Game |
| Endurance : a year in space, a lifetime of discovery |
| Enemies, a Love Story |
| Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library |
| Etta and Otto and Russell and James |
| Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city |
| Far from the Madding Crowd |
| Farewell to Manzanar : a true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War I |
| Fifth business |
| Flight Behavior |
| Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England: From Flips & Rattle-Skulls to Switchel & Spruce Beer |
| Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel |
| Friends and Other Liars : A Novel |
| Frog Music |
| Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries |
| Girl at War |
| Girls Burn Brighter |
| Glass Houses |
| Go Set a Watchman |
| Gold of Our Fathers |
| Halal Food : a history |
| Half Broke Horses |
| Half broke horses : a true-life novel |
| Half of a yellow sun |
| Hand to Mouth: living in bootstrap America |
| Happiness project |
| Heat and Light |
| Hend and the soldiers : a novel |
| Hidden figures |
| Hillbilly Elegy |
| Hillbilly Elegy |
| Hillbilly Elegy |
| Homegoing |
| Homegrown : Cooking from my New England roots |
| Hoot |
| Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet |
| How to be a good creature : a memoir in thirteen animals |
| How to be an antiracist |
| How to eat a peach : menus, stories, and places |
| How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia |
| If only you people could follow directions : a memoir |
| Imagine Me Gone : A Novel |
| In a sunburned country |
| In the garden of beasts : love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin |
| In the Time of the Butterflies |
| Indian (-ish) |
| Interpreter of Maladies : stories |
| Ireland's Green Larder |
| James And The Giant Peach |
| Joe Beef: surviving the apocalypse: Another Cookbook of Sorts |
| Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking |
| Just kids |
| Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption |
| Katie Up and Down the Hall |
| Kaukasis: A Culinary Journey through Georgia, Azerbaijan & Beyond |
| La Línea |
| Lab Girl |
| Last child in the woods: saving our child from nature-deficit disorder |
| Life in a jar : the Irena Sendler Project : a novel |
| Life on the other border |
| Lillian Boxfish takes a walk |
| Lincoln in the bardo |
| Little Bee |
| Little fires everywhere |
| Little Women |
| Long Time Coming |
| Major Pettigrew's last stand : a novel |
| Manhattan Beach |
| Mansfield Park |
| March [graphic novel]. Book 1 |
| March: Book One |
| Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor |
| Me before you |
| Middlesex |
| Midwives |
| Missing, presumed : a novel |
| Moloka'i |
| Moneyball : the art of winning an unfair game |
| Moon Tiger |
| Mr and Mrs Prince |
| Mrs Dalloway |
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh |
| My Brilliant Friend |
| My grandfather would have shot me: A black woman's discovers her family's nazi past |
| My grandmother's hands: racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hea |
| My Name is Lucy Barton |
| Neverhome |
| Night |
| Nopalito : a Mexican kitchen |
| Nora Webster : a novel |
| Normal people |
| North and South |
| Olive Kitteridge |
| Olive, Again |
| Orange is the New Black |
| Orphan train |
| Our Souls at Night |
| Our Town |
| Overstory |
| Pachinko |
| Paint the wind |
| Parrot and Olivier in America |
| Persepolis |
| Persuasion |
| Poet's Corner |
| Poppy |
| Prospero's daughter |
| Quentins |
| Rage Against the Dying |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books |
| Ready player one |
| Red at the Bone |
| Regeneration |
| Salvage the bones : a novel |
| Sandrine's Case |
| Sauces & shapes : pasta the Italian way |
| Scoop |
| She's not there : a life in two genders |
| Siddhartha |
| Simon and the fiddler |
| Simply pho : a complete course in preparing authentic Vietnamese meals at home |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing |
| Sing, unburied, sing |
| Snow falling on cedars |
| So you want to talk about race |
| So you've been publicly shamed |
| Sold |
| Spies of the Balkans |
| Star of the North |
| State of wonder |
| Station Eleven |
| Still Life with Breadcrumbs |
| Suite francaise |
| Summer |
| Tell the Wolves I'm Home |
| Test Kit for Training |
| Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son |
| The African Queen |
| The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science |
| The alchemist |
| The almost nearly perfect people : behind the myth of the Scandinavian utopia |
| The Beautiful Mystery |
| The Blackbird Season : A Novel |
| The Boston Girl |
| The Call |
| The Christmas quilt. The New Year's quilt : two Elm Creek quilts novels |
| The Circle |
| The City of Your Final Destination |
| The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America |
| The cooking gene : a journey through African-American culinary history in the Old South |
| The cuckoo's calling |
| The Curiosity |
| The dawn watch : Joseph Conrad in a global war |
| The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America |
| The Devotion of Suspect X |
| The Dirty Life |
| The Dutch House |
| The Elegance of the Hedgehog |
| The emperor's children |
| The end of loneliness |
| The enigma of arrival |
| The Fault in Our Stars |
| The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century |
| The Friend |
| The girl in the road |
| The Girl on the Train |
| The goldfinch |
| The Grapes of Wrath |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| The Hamilton Affair |
| The hate U give |
| The Help |
| The High Divide |
| The house on Mango Street |
| The Immigrant Cookbook |
| The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks |
| The Importance of Being Earnest |
| The invention of wings : a novel |
| The Last Equation of Isaac Severy : A Novel in Clues |
| The Leavers : A Novel |
| The left hand of darkness |
| The library book |
| The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid |
| The light between oceans |
| The Lost Painting |
| The Martian |
| The Moor's account |
| The Nest |
| The new Jim Crow |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
| The new kids : big dreams and brave journeys at a high school for immigrant teens |
| The new kosher : simple recipes to savor & share |
| The New Wildcrafted Cuisine |
| The Night Tiger |
| The Nowhere Child |
| The Ocean at the End of the Lane |
| The Painted Veil |
| The Paris architect : a novel |
| The Paris wife |
| The paying guests : a novel |
| The Poacher's Son |
| The Poet's dog |
| The power of play: how the power of spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children |
| The queue |
| The Red Badge of Courage : An Episode of the American Civil War |
| The Report : A Novel |
| The Samurai's Garden |
| The Scent Keeper |
| The Secret Life of Bees |
| The Sellout |
| The Seventh Wish |
| The Shadow of the Wind |
| The short and tragic life of Robert Peace |
| The Sioux chef's indigenous kitchen |
| The Sixth Extinction |
| The Snow Child |
| The souls of Black folk |
| The spirit catches you and you fall down |
| The Strangler Vine |
| The Submission |
| The Swans of Fifth Avenue : a novel |
| The sweetness at the bottom of the pie |
| The teeth of the comb and other stories |
| The Three Musketeers |
| The tiger's wife |
| The Time Machine |
| The time traveler's wife : a novel |
| The Turner house |
| The Underground Railroad |
| The Underground Railroad |
| The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
| The Unquiet Dead |
| The Valley of Amazement |
| The View from Penthouse B |
| The Wailing Wind |
| The Weight of Ink |
| The widows of Malabar Hill |
| The Wives of Los Alamos |
| The Woman Who Smashed Codes |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| There there |
| Think again: the power of knowing what you don't know |
| This changes everything : capitalism vs. the climate |
| This is how it always is |
| This Tender Land |
| Those turbulent sons of freedom : Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution |
| Tinkers |
| Trans-Sister radio |
| Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and h |
| Twelve Years a Slave |
| Twilight |
| Unbroken brain : a revolutionary new way of understanding addiction |
| Uncivil Liberties |
| Under the Tuscan Sun |
| Universe of Two |
| Washington Black |
| Water For Elephants |
| We Were Liars |
| When breath becomes air |
| When the Killing's Done |
| Where the crawdads sing |
| Where the Crawdads Sing |
| Where'd You Go, Bernadette |
| White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism |
| Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West : a novel |
| Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail |
| Wolf Hall : a novel |
| You as of today my homeland : stories of war, self, and love |
| Z : a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald |