Book Clubs

Welcome to the Ames Free Library's Book Clubs page! Use these links to jump to each club:

Ames Free Library Book Club | For the Love of Myth Discussion Group| Mystery Book Club | Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club|

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Ames Free Library Book Club 

Meets every month, on the 2nd Monday at 6:30 p.m. online & the 2nd Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at Queset House.

We welcome all new members! Subscribe to the "AFL Book Club" e-newsletter to receive book club reminders, updates, and meeting invitations. Copies of each month’s selection will be made available for check-out at the Circulation Desk. Click on the titles below for information on availability of digital editions.

 

2022 Titles

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 10 & 12	February 9 & 14	March 9 & 14
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash	Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard	The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
April 11 & 13	May 9 & 11	June 8 & 13
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth	The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo	Wayfaring Stranger by James Lee Burke
July 13	August 10	September 12 & 14
Bring Your Own Book	Bring Your Own Book	The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
October 12 & 17*	November 9 & 14	December 12 & 14
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain	The Sentence: A Novel by Louise Erdrich	A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy

 

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For the Love of Myth Discussion Group

Meets the first Monday of every month at 3:00 to 4:00 p.m.

We welcome all new members! Click on the titles below for information on availability of digital editions.

2022 Titles

 *Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

 

May 2	June 6	July 11
A Short History of Myth   by Karen Armstrong	Homer`s Odyssey  Translated by Robert Fitzgerald	The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
August 1	September 12	October 3
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood	Circe  by Madeline Miller	Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
November 7	December 5
Life of Pi by Yann Martel	Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

 

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 Mystery Book Club

Meets the last Thursday of every month at 3:00 p.m.

We welcome all new members! Subscribe to the "Mystery Book Club" e-newsletter to receive book club reminders, updates, and meeting invitations. Click on the titles below for information on availability of digital editions.

 

 

2022 Titles

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 27	February 24	March 31
An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena	Juror #3 by James Patterson and Nancy Allen	Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
April 28	May 26	June 30
My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni	IQ by Joe Ide	Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
July 28	August 25	September 29
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb	A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette	The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
October 27	November 17*	December 29
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke	The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz	The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu

 

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Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club 

Meets the second Thursday of every month at 6:00 p.m.

We welcome all new members! Click on the titles below for information on availability of digital editions.

 

2022 Titles

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

 

May 12	June 9	July 14
Event Cancelled	Good Morning, Monster by Dean Jobb	Irena`s Children  by Tilar J. Mazzeo
August 11	September 8	October 13
TBD	American Predator  by Maureen Callahan	The Less People Know About Us by Axton Betz-Hamilton
November 10	December 8
The Family Next Door  by John Glatt	Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

 

 

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