About us
Welcome to 805 Reads Book Club!
We look forward to meeting you and seeing you soon at a book club meeting! We are a friendly group that warmly welcomes new members. There are many different groups covering several genres. We hope you find one or more that intrigue you:
1st Tuesday – Award nominees or winners, available in paperback and under 450 pages.
Leader: Beverlee Abell,
Location: In and about the 805 Zip code
2nd Monday – Varies - recommendations from the group - usually current fiction.
Leaders: Monthly hosts vary, Beverlee Abell
Location: Varies
3rd Thursday – It’s a Mystery! Mysteries, fiction and non-fiction.
Leader: Jennifer Gross
Location: Varies
Varied Thursdays – Salon Group
Leader: Jennifer Gross
Location: Varies
Saturdays: Mystery and Fiction
Leaders: Cindy
Occasional Sunday mornings – Page to Screen. We’ll read the book, watch the movie, and discuss both afterwards. Meets whenever a great opportunity arises.
Leader: Ellen Rodriguez
Location: Movie theaters and eating establishments in/near Camarillo
All of the group leaders can be reached through the Meetup app, through a “Comment” or “Messages” link. Beverlee Abell is the Lead Organizer of the group.
What to know about the MEETINGS:
If you’re on the Wait List, still read the book. The Wait List often clears, especially in the last few days before the meeting.
If you can’t attend, please change your RSVP. It helps clear the Wait List. We meet at local restaurants and some have ordering minimums for use of the space.
No Shows and people who cancel with 24 hours of the meeting will be marked on the meeting attendance. After three No Shows and/or late cancellations, you’ll be blocked from signing up for more meetings.
Dues are $15.00 per year, to offset the cost of Meetup membership. You may pay on the Meetup app or pay cash to Beverlee Abell. Your profile will show if your dues are paid. Meetup will remind you when the fee is due the following year.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon at 805 Reads!
Beverlee, Ellen, Jennifer and Cindy
Upcoming events
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Tues Night Let's Read: The Night We Lost Himby Laura Dave
Pickles Deli and Restaurant, 1940 Newbury Road, Newbury Park, CA, USThis is the CAM READS book selection and Laura Dave will be speaking about it on September 27th in the Library - tickets are available for FREE but you HAVE TO PICK THEM UP AT THE LIBRARY starting September 1st.
Last year they were gone quickly so make plans - you can only pick up a ticket for yourself!!
Goodreads Choice Award
Nominee for Readers' Favorite Mystery & Thriller (2024)
Nora Noone’s father, Liam, was many things to many people. To the public he was a self-made hotel magnate, whose luxury boutique hotels were among the most coveted destinations in the world. To his three ex-wives, he was a loving yet distant family man who managed to keep his finances—and his families—separate. But to Nora, her father was always a mystery—especially after his suspicious death at his cliffside home.Though the authorities rule Liam's death accidental, Nora and her estranged brother, Sam, believe otherwise. As they form an uneasy alliance to unpack the mystery, they start putting together the pieces of their father’s past and uncover a family secret that changes everything.
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Camarillo Reads: The Night We Lost Him Author Talk with Laura Dave
Camarillo Library, 4101 E. Las Posas Rd, Camarillo, CA, USThe Camarillo Public Library is proud to present another year of Camarillo Reads: One City, One Book. This year’s selection is The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave. She will join us to discuss her book, followed by a Q&A.
Limited tickets will be available at the 2nd Floor Reference Desk beginning September 1. One ticket per individual.
This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Camarillo Library.Date:Sunday, September 27, 2026
Time:2:00pm - 3:00pm
Time Zone:Pacific Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:Community RoomThe author talk starts as 2:00, lets meet earlier and sit together. After we will find a spot and discuss. In order to attend this event you must pick up a ticket from the Camarillo Library.
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Tues Night Let's Read: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pickles Deli and Restaurant, 1940 Newbury Road, Newbury Park, CA, USGoodreads Choice Award
Winner for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2025), Nominee for Readers' Favorite Audiobook (2025)
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, creating complex protagonists, and telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
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