Armchair Adventure Book Club: Select Books for 2026

Hosted by Tempe resident bibliophile Tracy Sobers

Special Format: Every month the book club reads one book and discusses it at the book club meeting. But this month (February), there will be no book selection.

Instead: We will briefly review the books we have read during the past year (2025). Then we will discuss books to read during the upcoming year. We WILL make decisions as a group about books to read during upcoming months. So be sure to bring your suggestions!

This is the perfect event to attend if you have been interested in the book club, but have not yet attended a meeting.

What to Bring? You do not need to bring anything. But if you have one or two books that you have read and want to recommend them for a future book club selections, feel free to bring them to show the group.

Fun Book Club: This will be the 42nd monthly meeting of this book club. We had so much fun at the all of the meetings so far, with wonderful, fascinating discussions with great neighbors and new friends. If you like books or interesting discussions... or simply want to have fun meeting new people, I highly recommend RSVP-ing for this event.

In reverse chronological order, here are the monthly book club selections that we have read since the start of the book club:

38 The Jungle [by] Upton Sinclair
37 Fire in the Sky [by] Travis Walton
36 All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row [by] James Patterson and Alex Abramovich
35 The Tortilla Curtain [by] T.C. Boyle
34 Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life [by] Delia Ephron
33 North Woods [by] Daniel Mason
32 The Left Hand of Darkness [by] Ursula K. Le Guin
31 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI [by] David Grann
30 Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona [by] Tom Zoellner
29 Time in a Garden [by] Mary A. Garcia
28 Ender's Game [by] Orson Scott Card
27 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics [by] Daniel James Brown
26 A Step Away From Paradise: The True Story of a Tibetan Lama's Journey to a Land of Immortality [by] Thomas K. Shot
25 The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store [by] James McBride
24 Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook & Eat [by] Bee Wilson
23 The Nightingale [by] Kristin Hannah
22 The Descendants [by] Kauai Hart Hemmings
21 Out of Egypt [by] Anne Rice
20 In the Time of Butterflies [by] Julia Alvarez
19 Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art & Science of Rememebring Everything [by] Joshua Foer
18 The Book Club [by] Mary Alice Munroe
17 The Silence [by] Don DeLillo
16 The Way I Heard It [by] Mike Rowe
15 The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency [by] Alexander McCall Smith
14 The Door Into Summer [by] Robert A. Heinlein
13 Rescue 12 Responding [by] Faye Hamilton
12 The Other Einstein [by] Marie Benedict
11 Lessons in Chemistry [by] Bonnie Garmus
10 The Measure [by] Nikki Erick
09 The Archer's Thread [by] Noel Zamot
08 Dear Edward [by] Ann Napolitano
07 Down a Dark River [by] Karen Odden
06 The Borrower [by] Rebecca Makkai
05 Good Morning, Midnight (The Midnight Sky) [by] Lily Broooks-Dalton
04 The Devil's Highway [by] Luis Alberto Urrea
03 Where the Crawdads Sing [by] Delia Owens
02 Following Atticus [by] Tom Ryan
01 Into the Wild [by] Jon Krakauer

(Thank you to Heather for compiling this list!)