Novel Conversations - Indiana Humanities

Novel Conversations is a free statewide lending library. Indiana Humanities lends more than 900 titles, primarily fiction and biography, to reading and discussion groups across Indiana, free of charge. We also have books available in several other genres, including nonfiction, mysteries, plays, poetry and young adult.

Our new reservation system, MyTurn, is now live!

Webinar
Learn how to use our new system
For those who have been anticipating the reopening of our library reservation system, you can learn more in this recording from our recent webinar about how to reserve kits on MyTurn.
Watch the webinar

Reservation Portal
Check out kits on MyTurn
Visit our MyTurn portal to check out kits for your book club.
Go to the portal

Program Details

MyTurn Update

Thank you for your patience with Indiana Humanities as we have taken time to transfer our kit reservation process to a new platform after KitKeeper ceased operations last year. We are pleased to let you know that our new platform, MyTurn, is now open for reservations and will hopefully offer you increased functionality and an improved user experience.

For existing users, the first step to making new reservations (and linking your account to any upcoming reservations you may have made before the end of 2024) will be to recover your account using this link.

Please use the email address at which you made prior reservations on KitKeeper to recover your account. If you’d like to update to a different preferred email address after the fact, you can do that once you’ve gotten access to your account.

Once you have gotten account access, MyTurn will likely ask you for some additional contact information, and then you’ll be registered to make reservations.

More information about making reservations can be found in this step-by-step guide and the recording from our recent webinar training.

Getting Started

HOW TO REGISTER

Before making any reservations, please register for a MyTurn account at this link. MyTurn will collect information including your name, address, and phone number. For help with registration, please email us.

HOW TO ORDER BOOKS

After you’ve completed the registration process outlined above, visit this step-by-step guide to learn how to reserve kits.

Donating and Requesting Books

We’re always looking for donations of paperback books (minimum of eight copies per title) or additional copies of books already in our collection. Quite a lot of our newer books have been donated by libraries.

We’ve also received special funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities; the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Indiana State Library; and Glick Philanthropies. While we don’t have a large budget for purchasing books, we do keep a standing list of requests that we take into account when selecting any new purchases. If you’d like to donate books, suggest new titles or offer feedback about the program, please contact us.

If you’d like to receive a monthly enewsletter from Indiana Humanities, with updates about acquisitions and other information, email us at novelconversations@indianahumanities.org.

Cautions, Caveats, etc.

IMPORTANT: We ship books only on Wednesday and Friday. Orders received too late cannot be shipped until the following pickup date.
Remember, Novel Conversations is first-come, first-served. To ensure availability of the titles you want, make your reservations as far in advance as you can. We’ll record reservations in our database and ship the books at the appropriate date. If they don’t arrive when expected, please let us know.
We’ll attempt to fulfill your order, but realize that if another group loses a book or two, we may not be able to send you all the copies you requested.