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.

 

2019 Titles

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 14 & 16	February 11 & 13	March 11 & 13
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell	Circe by Madeline Miller	An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
April 8 & 10	May 13 & 15	June 10 & 12
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris	Washington Black by Esi Edugyan	The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
September 9 & 11	October 21 & 23*	November 18 & 20*
I Can't Breathe:  A Killing on Bay Street by Matt Taibbi	The Library Book by Susan Orlean	Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
	December 9 & 11
	Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

 

 

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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.

2019 Titles

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

January 22	February 26	March 26
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald	Circe  by Madeline Miller	That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam
April 23	May 28	June 25
The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel	The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden	Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li
July 22	August 27	September 24
Tin Man by Sarah Winman	Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng	A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
October 22	November 26	December 17*
Heartland: A Memoir by Sarah Smarsh	The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton	Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver

 

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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.

January through June 2019

January 31	February 28	March 28
The Attenbury Emeralds by Jill Paton Walsh	Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : The true story of New York City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation by Brad Ricca	A Prayer for the Damned: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland by Peter Tremayne
April 25	May 30	June 27
Sworn to Silence by Linda Castillo	The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen	The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

July through December 2019

*Denotes rescheduled date due to holiday

July 25 Mixed Genre	August 29 Thriller/Noir	September 26 Police Procedural
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman	The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag	Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
October 31 Historical	November 21* Nonfiction	December 19* Holiday
A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly	Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe	The Darling Dahlias and the Poinsettia Puzzle by Susan Wittig Albert

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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!

 

August 8	September 12	October 10
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich	Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottleib	Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer by Maureen Boyle
November 14	December 12	January 9
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro	I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara	So You Want to Talk About Race? by Ijeoma Oluo