Book Clubs

Welcome to the Ames Free Library's Book Clubs page! We have a number of book clubs to suit many reading tastes:

Ames Free Library Book Club | Council on Aging Book Club | Mystery Book Club | Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club

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Ames Free Library Book Club 

Meets every month, except July & August, on the 2nd Monday at 6:30 pm and the 2nd Wednesday at 1:30 pm, Learning Commons at Queset House, 51 Main Street.

We welcome all new members! Subscribe to the "AFL Book Club" e-newsletter to receive book club reminders and updates.

2020 Titles

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 8 & 13	February 10 & 12	March 9 & 11
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue	Pachinko by Min Jin Lee	Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
April 8 & 13	May 11 & 13	June 8 & 10
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead	The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff	Becoming by Michelle Obama
July	August	September 9 & 14
No AFL Book Club this month	No AFL Book Club this month	Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
October 14 & 19	November 9 & 18*	December 9 & 14
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery	Beartown by Fredrik Backman	Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

 

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Council on Aging Book Club

Meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 1:00 pm, Frothingham Hall, 15 Barrows Street. We welcome all new members! Subscribe to the "Council on Aging Book Club" e-newsletter to receive book club reminders and updates.

2020 Titles - Please check back soon for additional titles!

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 28	February 25	March 24
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue	Pachinko by Min Jin Lee	Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
April 28	May 26	June 23
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead	The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff	Becoming by Michelle Obama
July	August	September 22
No COA Book Club this month	No COA Book Club this month	Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
October 27	November 24	December 22
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery	Beartown by Fredrik Backman	Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney

 

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Mystery Book Club

Meets the last Thursday of every month at 3:00 pm, 1st Floor Presentation Room, Queset House, 51 Main Street. We welcome all new members! Subscribe to the "Mystery Book Club" e-newsletter to receive book club reminders and updates.

2020 Titles

Mysteries from around the world!

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 30 Italy	February 27 Australia	March 26 England
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri	Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood	Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson
April 30 Cuba	May 28 Dominican Republic	June 25 Canada
The Beggar's Opera by Peggy Blair	Pirate Hunters by Robert Kurson	Black Fly Season by Giles Blunt
July 30 Australia	August 27 Nigeria	September 24 India
MEMBERS' CHOICE - The Bat by Jo Nesbø	My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite	The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey
October 29 United States	November 19* Russia	December 31 Greece
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang	Eye of the Red Tsar by Sam Eastland	Murder in Mykonos by Jeffrey Siger

 

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Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club 

Meets the second Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m., 1st Floor Presentation Room, Queset House, 51 Main Street. We welcome all new members!

 

2020 Titles - Please check back soon for additional titles!

 

January 9	February 13	March 12
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover	Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali	Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
April 9	May 14	June 11
The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson	How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan	The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
July 9	August 13	September 10
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel	Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult by Bruce Handy	My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor