Book Clubs

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Ames Free Library Book Club and Mystery Book Club are now meeting online! The Council on Aging Book Club and Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club have been suspended until further notice.

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 ONLINE every month, on the 2nd Wednesday at 1:30 pm.

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

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 13	June 10
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead	The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald	Diamond Doris by Doris Payne
July	August	September 9
NEW! Bring Your Own Book Club	NEW! Bring Your Own Book Club	Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
October 14	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 - The Council on Aging Book Club has been suspended until further notice.

Meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 1:00 pm, Frothingham Hall, 15 Barrows Street. We welcome all new members!

2020 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 ONLINE on the last Thursday of every month at 3:00 pm. We welcome all new members! Subscribe to the "Mystery Book Club" e-newsletter to receive book club reminders, updates, and meeting invitations.

2020 Titles

Mysteries from around the world!

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 30 Italy	February 27 Australia	March
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri	Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood	No Mystery Book Club this month
April 30 England	May 28 Greece	June 25 Canada
Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson	Murder in Mykonos by Jeffrey Siger	Cobra Clutch by A.J. Devlin
July 30 Italy	August 27 France	September 24 Japan
Friends in High Places by Donna Leon	This Poison Will Remain by Fred Vargas	The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
October 29 Denmark	November 19* Spain	December 31 England
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup	Black Sun Rising by Matthew Carr	A Tale of Two Murders by Heather Redmond

 

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Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club  -  The Ames Free Library Nonfiction Book Club has been suspended until further notice.

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

 

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	Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeannette Winterson
October 8	November 12	December 10
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls	How to Be a Good Creature by Sy Montgomery	Inheritance by Dani Shapiro