What I talk about when I talk about running [electronic resource]: a memoir by Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

Athletic yoga. Yoga for runners. [electronic resource]

Born to run [electronic resource]: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest race the world has never seen by Christopher McDougall

Do life [electronic resource]: [the creator of my 120- pound journey shows how to run better, go farther, and find happiness] by Ben Davis

The new rules of running [electronic resource] by David Allen

Don't let your book group miss these:

The tenderness of wolves: a novel by Stef Penney

A three dog life by Abigail Thomas

Moral disorder: stories by Margaret Atwood

The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander

Five skies by Ron Carlson

American pandemic: the lost worlds of the 1918 influenza epidemic by Nancy K. Bristow

Bloom: a memoir by Kelle Hampton

Bombshell: explosive medical secrets that will redefine aging by Suzanne Somers

Drop dead healthy: one man's humble quest for bodily perfection by A.J. Jacobs

The end of illness by David B. Agus ; with Kristin Loberg

Find out what life was like growing up in bygone days:

Big Russ and me: father and son: lessons of life by Tim Russert — South Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1950s

Defending Baltimore against enemy attack: a boyhood year during World War II by Charles Osgood — Baltimore in the 1940s

A girl named Zippy: growing up small in Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel — Mooreland, Indiana in the 1960s

Hotel kid: a Times Square childhood by Stephen Lewis — New York City in the 1930s

The life and times of the last kid picked by David Benjamin — Small-town Wisconsin in the 1950s

The luscious descriptions of food, cooking and restaurants filling these pages will appeal to anyone who loves to chow down.

Masala Farm: stories and recipes from an uncommon life in the country by Suvir Saran with Raquel Pelzel and Charlie Burd — An Indian chef and consummate city dweller buys a farm in the country.

Beaten, seared, and sauced: on becoming a chef at the Culinary Institute of America by Jonathan Dixon — Discover what it's really like to study at the Culinary Institute of America.

The feast nearby: how I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week) by Robin Mather — A charming ode to eating well and locally, on $40 per week.

The perfect book for a book discussion is one that's not too easy, not too hard, that will hold the interest of a diverse group of readers and will also inspire a lively discussion. For additional book club resources check out CPL's Book Club in a Bag kits.

The true memoirs of Little K by Adrienne Sharp

The tiger's wife: a novel by Téa Obreht

Life itself: a memoir by Roger Ebert

A trick of the light by Louise Penny

The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood

All over but the shoutin' by Rick Bragg

Foreign correspondence by Geraldine Brooks

The road from Coorain by Jill Ker Conway

True north : a memoir by Jill Ker Conway

Colored people : a memoir by Henry Louis Gates, Jr

John Glenn : a memoir by John Glenn with Nick Taylor

If you're hooked on television series like House or Scrubs, you may like these medical memoirs.

• Another Day in the Frontal Lobe by Katrina Firlik
• Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent
• Complications by Atul Gawande
• A Final Arc of Sky by Jennifer Culkin
• Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
• The Pact by Sampson Davis