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 | Frothingham Hall Book Club| Mystery Book Club | Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club

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

Frothingham Hall Book Club

Meets the second Thursday of every month at 2:00 p.m.

Monthly meetings will take place at Frothingham Hall, located at 15 Barrows Street.

2022 Titles

October 13	November 10	December 8
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain	The Sentence: A Novel by Louise Erdrich	A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy

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

	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
American Predator  by Maureen Callahan	Nothing to Envy  by Barbara Demik	The Less People Know About Us by Axton Betz-Hamilton
November 10	December 8
The Family Next Door  by John Glatt	Nature Writings by John Muir