Book Club

The Armchair Adventure Book Club meets at 6:30 pm. on the last Wednesday of each month. The group nearly always meets at the Tempe Public Library.

This book club is open to everyone in the community and is free to join and participate in.

The club is organized through the neighborhood potluck group. The group was created about one year ago, when individual members of the neighborhood potluck group decided to start a book club.

Tracy organizes and moderates the book club meetings. Those who attend recommend books and the group votes on or decides which books to read.

Book club meetings are great opportunities to make new friends. Discussions inevitably lead to a deeper understanding of one's neighbors.

Most books are fiction. Some are non-fiction. The group has read memoir, mystery, science fiction, spy thriller, drama, historic, and more.

Book club meetings have featured the actual authors of books as guests: Karen Odden (Down a Dark River) and Noel Zamot (The Archer's Thread). On Sep. 27, author Faye Hamilton (Rescue 12 Responding) will be a special guest.

Attendees are predominantly women, but men are welcome and all meetings have had both men and women participate.

Past book selections:
Dec. 18, 2024: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - by Daniel James Brown
Nov. 20, 2024: A Step Away From Paradise: The True Story of a Tibetan Lama's Journey to a Land of Immortality - by Thomas K. Shor
Oct. 30, 2024: The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - by James McBride
Sep. 25, 2024: Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat - by Bee Wilson
Aug. 28, 2024: The Nightingale - by Kristin Hannah
July 11, 2024: Good Night, Irene - by Luis Alberto Urrea (special "Meet the Author" event)
July 31, 2024: The Descendants - by Kaui Hart Hemmings
June 26, 2024: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt - by Anne Rice
May 29, 2024: In the Time of Butterflies - by Julia Alvarez
Apr. 24, 2024: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything - by Joshua Foer
Mar. 27, 2024: The Book Club: A Women's Fiction Novel about the Power of Friendship - by Mary Alice Munroe
Feb. 28, 2024: The Silence: A Novel - by Don DeLillo
Dec. 27, 2023: The Way I Heard It - by Mike Rowe
Nov. 29, 2023: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - by Alexander McCall Smith
Oct. 25, 2023: The Door Into Summer - by Robert A. Heinlein
Sep. 27, 2023: Rescue 12 Responding - Faye Hamilton
Aug. 30, 2023: The Other Einstein - Marie Benedict
July 26, 2023: Lessons in Chemistry - by Bonnie Garmus
June 28, 2023: The Measure - by Nikki Erlick
May 31, 2023: The Archer's Thread - by Noel Zamot
Apr. 24, 2023: Dear Edward - by Ann Napolitano
Mar. 27, 2024: Down a Dark River - by Karen Odden
Feb. 27, 2023: The Borrower: A Novel - by Rebecca Makkai
Jan. 23, 2023: Good Morning, Midnight - Lily Brooks-Dalton
Dec. 28, 2022: The Devil's Highway: A True Story - Luis Alberto Urrea
Nov. 30, 2022: Where the Crawdads Sing - by Delia Owens
Oct. 26, 2022: Following Atticus - by Tom Ryan
Sep. 21, 2022: Into the Wild - by Jon Krakaurer