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Book Groups
Glasgow Libraries support a range of book groups across the city e.g. Poetry, Classics, Crime - there really is something for everyone. Get together in the comfort of your local library with like-minded book lovers to discuss everything book related or borrow a set of our books and hold your own sessions wherever is best for you.
Find your nearest book group
Find out where your nearest Book Group session is by looking at the Glasgow Life What's On pages.
For further information please contact GL.BookGroups@glasgowlife.org.uk or your local library for further details on joining or starting a book group in your area.
Glasgow Libraries participates in the Hurricane Book Club which is funded and run by Pan Macmillan and takes place online and in bookshops and libraries across Scotland with special events at Glasgow, Falkirk and Shetland Libraries. For more information see our Hurricane Book Club page.
Starting a book group?
Our Guide to Setting Up a Book Group should answer some of your questions.
Book sets
Glasgow Libraries Book Group Titles 2022 (PDF, 244KB)
Borrow a set of books from our dedicated book group collection. If you’d rather meet in the local pub, park or the comfort of your own home, Glasgow Libraries can still help you make sure everyone has a copy of their chosen read. You can see the full list of books on the PDF above or browse some of the titles below.
Useful links
The Reading Agency page Reading Groups for Everyone is the UK’s largest reading group network and has lots of resources and reviews.
The Reading Agency also has information on setting up a reading group.
Recommendations for book groups are available from the LoveReading site.
Scottish Book Trust has themed book lists for all ages.
NB is a quarterly literary magazine and online platform for book lovers, book clubs and all-round bibliophiles.
Contact us
We welcome feedback from library users.
Contact us to let us know how we are doing or if you want to find out more.
New Books for Reading Groups 2022
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Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: This translation originally published: UK: Michael Joseph, 2020 Translated from the Swedish
406 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0708899447 
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Fleet
Resource type: Physical
336 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
0008478295 
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: 4th Estate
Resource type: Physical
496 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
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Resource type: Physical
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
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Resource type: Physical
320 pages ; 24 cm (hbk)
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
288 pages ; 22 cm (hbk)
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Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
192 pages ; 22 cm (hbk)
Classics
0862416442 
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Year: 1996
Media class: Book
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
Note: First published 1920
1841950602 
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Year: 2000
Media class: Book
Publisher: Canongate
Resource type: Physical
0141439629 
Book
Year: 2003
Media class: Book
Edition: [New ed.]
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
0141441631 
Book
Year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Book
Edition: New ed. ; edited by J.H. Stape
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
512 p. ; 20 cm
0141439602 
Book
Year: 2003
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
200mm
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Book
Year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: Contents: Mr Harrison's confessions - Cranford - My Lady Ludlow
496 p. ; 20 cm
0141183969 
Book
Year: 2000
Language: English
Media class: Book
Edition: Annotated ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: This ed. originally published: 1997
288p. ; 20 cm
0141032421 
Book
Year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Book
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: This translation originally published: New YorK: Knopf, 1988; London: Penguin, 1989
368 p. ; 20 cm
0241973686 
Book 
Year: 2015
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Andre Deutsch, 1987
pbk
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Book
Year: 1998
Media class: Book
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: Minerva
Resource type: Physical
0141182857 
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Year: 2000
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
J000124642 
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Year: 1999
Media class: Book
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
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Year: 2011
Media class: Book
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
225 pages
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Year: 1998
Media class: Book
Edition: New edition
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Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Edition: Annotated ed.
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Crime
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Year: 2011
Media class: Book
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2010
320 p. ; 20 cm
0571288006 
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Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2011
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Year: 2017
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
0857523279 
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Year: 2015
Media class: Book
Publisher: Doubleday
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0385607997 
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Media class: Book
Publisher: Doubleday
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Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Orion
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Inspector Rebus series ; 22
hbk
0008132178 
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Year: 2016
Media class: Book
Publisher: The Borough Press
Resource type: Physical
pbk
0857526103 
Book
Year: 2019
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
hbk
1910192147 
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Year: 2015
Media class: Book
Publisher: Contraband
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Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Sphere
Resource type: Physical
Note: A Cormoran Strike novel ; 4
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Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
Publisher: Piatkus
Resource type: Physical
463p
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Year: 2015
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1844083667 
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Year: 2007
Language: English
Media class: Book
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
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Year: 2014
Media class: Book
Edition: hbk
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Year: 2013
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
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Note: Originally published: 2012
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Year: 2013
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
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1784701742 
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Year: 2017
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Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2016
pbk
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Year: 2017
Media class: Book
Edition: TV tie-in
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Resource type: Physical
pbk
0349415609 
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Year: 2017
Media class: Book
Publisher: Piatkus
Resource type: Physical
0857520644 
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Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Edition: hbk
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Resource type: Physical
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Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: 4th Estate
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2017
pbk
1785768921 
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Year: 2019
Media class: Book
Publisher: Zaffre
Resource type: Physical
hbk
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Year: 2015
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Resource type: Physical
1786075199 
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Year: 2019
Media class: Book
Publisher: Oneworld
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2018
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Year: 2002
Media class: Book
Publisher: Virago
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Futura, 1976 Contents: 84 Charing Cross Road. Originally published: New York: Grossman, 1970; London: Deutsch, 1971 - The duchess of Bloomsbury Street. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973; London: Deutsch, 1974
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1472234367 
Book 
Year: 2017
Media class: Book
Publisher: Tinder Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: USA: Penguin Random House
hbk
1787330974 
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Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Resource type: Physical
hbk
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Year: 2009
Language: English
Media class: Book
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384 p. ; 24 cm
0751552860 
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Year: 2013
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
Publisher: Sphere
Resource type: Physical
1444777645 
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Year: 2019
Media class: Book
Publisher: Two Roads
Resource type: Physical
hbk
0141039280 
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Year: 2010
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: New York: Amy Einhorn ; London: Fig Tree, 2009
464 p. ; 20 cm
1444788124 
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Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Resource type: Physical
hbk
1444715402 
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Year: 2019
Media class: Book
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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hbk
0349117543 
Book
Year: 2004
Language: English
Media class: Book
Edition: New pbk. ed.
Publisher: Abacus
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: Australia: Scribe, 2003; London: Little, Brown, 2004
944 p. ; 20 cm
Historical Fiction
0571238270 
Book 
Year: 2011
Media class: Book
Publisher: Faber
Resource type: Physical
0141023589 
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Year: 2006
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
1408888092 
Book
Year: 2017
Media class: Book
Publisher: Raven Books
Resource type: Physical
0340921587 
Book
Year: 2011
Media class: Book
Publisher: Sceptre
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2010
528 p.
0241295939 
Book
Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Viking
Resource type: Physical
hbk
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Year: 2019
Media class: Book
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Resource type: Physical
hbk
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Year: 2016
Media class: Book
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Resource type: Physical
pbk
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Year: 2018
Media class: Book
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Resource type: Physical
hbk
1781255458 
Book
Year: 2017
Media class: Book
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Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2016
pbk
0241338077 
Book
Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Resource type: Physical
hbk
J000285860 
Book
Year: 2014
Media class: Book
Edition: [Rev. ed.]
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: First published in the U.S.A. under the title "The price of salt", 1952
J000197232 
Book
Year: 2011
Media class: Book
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
0007450109 
Book
Year: 2013
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2012
1447250974 
Book
Year: 2016
Media class: Book
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
pbk
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Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Edition: hbk
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Resource type: Physical
Literary Fiction A-C
1843547228 
Book 
Year: 2009
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Atlantic
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2008
1472230612 
Book
Year: 2015
Media class: Book
Publisher: Tinder Press
Resource type: Physical
0747576262 
Book
Year: 2005
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
22 cm
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Book
Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Tinder Press
Resource type: Physical
pbk
0857523279
Book
Year: 2015
Media class: Book
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
0330483285 
Book
Year: 2005
Language: English
Media class: Book
Publisher: Picador
Resource type: Physical
200 p. ; 22 cm
0241967015 
Book
Year: 2016
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Viking, 2015
pbk
0099564971 
Book
Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
Publisher: Vintage
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2011
085752349X 
Book
Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Doubleday
Resource type: Physical
hbk
J000277565 
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Year: 2012
Media class: Book
Publisher: Polygon
Resource type: Physical
221 pages ; 20cm
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Book
Year: 2014
Media class: Book
Edition: pbk
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: 2013
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Book
Year: 2017
Media class: Book
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
hbk
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Book
Year: 2018
Media class: Book
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Resource type: Physical
hbk
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J000164999 
Book
Year: 2010
Media class: Book
Publisher: Penguin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002