View from the Margins Book Group – Ames Public Library

Check out this book group for fresh insights and lively discussion about topics relating to society, identity, and culture. Book selections include fiction and non-fiction from a wide variety of perspectives and marginalized identities.

Participate in person in the Danfoss Room or join the Zoom Meeting, use the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83974516721?pwd=mKGAzHUYnw7Z5c7XbyONFF3yw55RXH.1

2025

• September – What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez? by Claire Jimenez
• October – Beautiful Country: A Memoir of an Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang
• November – The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
• December – Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

2026

• January – The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• February – The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
• March – See Me Rolling: On Disability, Equality, and Ten-Point Turns by Lottie Jackson
• April – Victim by Andrew Boryga
• May – Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H
• June – Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor
• July – A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power
• August – Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir by Zoë Bossiere

Supported by the Ames Public Library Friends Foundation.