Innsbruck Reads
Innsbruck Reads is a friendly, bi-lingual book club in Innsbruck. If you’re looking for an international community of book-lovers in and around Innsbruck, welcome!
Join the Innsbruck Reads book club
There is no fee to join the book club. If you’d like to become a member, be notified of future book club dates, and be invited to private book club events, add your details below. I try to send out a monthly-ish update of what’s coming up, previous book club discussions and, if I have time, a bit of reading inspiration.
No spam. (Honestly, who has the time to spam people about a book club?!)
Book club meetup in Innsbruck
I limit the list of upcoming book club events to 3-4. This gives everyone enough time to read the books as well as a chance to register.
A note about registering:
Registration is simple: name & email address only. When you register, you’ll receive a confirmation link with a calendar invitation. I will send out a reminder a few days before the event, and in the event that we need to cancel, or the venue changes, I’ll email you.
When you register, I’ll also add you to the book club mailing list. This is essentially the “member list.” Every month or two, I will send an email to this list sharing upcoming events, including private events for members.
You can unsubscribe from this at any time (using the unsubscribe button in the footer. You will then receive no further communication from me, alttough you are welcome to sign up to public book club meetings.
Upcoming dates:
“Brushing up on Art” – Spring/Summer Reading Salon (read now, meet in July)
Every few months, we have a "Reading Salon". I offer you a theme, and you read one or more books that align to that theme, no matter how lightly. Choose your own books, or get inspiration from the list I provide.
Speed Booking Innsbruck: a "Walk & Talk" for book lovers
Join us for an evening of Speed Booking in Innsbruck. Like Speed Dating, but instead of finding the love of your life, you might just find a new favourite book, thanks to personal recommendations from fellow readers. It's simple: bring a book recommendation and be ready...
Monthly Monday Book Club: An African History of Africa & The Taste of Apple Seeds
This month, we'll be reading An African History of Africa (Eine afrikanische Geschichte Afrikas) by Zeinab Badawi, and/or The Taste of Apple Seeds (Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen) by Katharina Hagena. Feel free to read one or both books. If you don't finish the book and ...
Planned books on our list & event formats
The Monthly Monday Meetup is the regular format.
We also have quarterly-ish reading salons, and special formats like Speed Booking, Book “Walk & talks”, Silent Reading Dates, and an emerging Cook & Book event. Plus summer and end of year casual get-togethers.
Monthly book club reads:
A Monday meetup where you’re invited to read the book of the month and join us to talk about it. Usually runs from September-June (summer break: July & August).
Upcoming in 2025 + 2026
2025
October 2025
Player of Games by Iain M Banks
Circe by Madeleine Miller
November 2025:
Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart
We need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shrivner
2026
** EN title | DE title
January 2026
The Bell in the Lake | Die Glocke im See
Lars Mytting (Fiction)
Entangled Life | Verwobenes Leben
Merlin Sheldrake (Non-fiction)
February 2026
A Different Kind of Power | A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern (Non-fiction)
The Wall | Die Wand
Marlen Haushofer (Speculative Fiction, Classic, Austrian)
March 2026
Stone Blind | Stone Blind
Natalie Haynes (Fiction)
The Secret Lives of Color | Die Welt der Farben
Kassia St. Clair (Non-fiction)
April 2026
The Shadow of the Wind | Der Schatten des Windes
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Fiction)
Other Minds | Der Krake, das Meer und die tiefen Ursprünge des Bewusstseins
Peter Godfrey-Smith (Non-fiction)
May 2026
The Vegetarian | Die Vegetarierin
Han Kang (Fiction)
Talking to Strangers | Die Kunst, nicht aneinander vorbeizureden
Malcolm Gladwell (Non-fiction)
June 2026
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters | Immer auf Sendung, nie auf Empfang
Kate Murphy (Non-fiction)
Shogun | Shogun
James Clavell (Fiction)
September 2026
An African History of Africa | Eine afrikanische Geschichte Afrikas
Zeinab Badawi (Non-fiction)
The Taste of Apple Seeds | Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen
Katharina Hagena (Fiction)
October 2026
The Slaughterman’s Daughter | Fannys Rache
Yaniv Iczkovits (Non-fiction)
The Leopard | Der Leopard
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Fiction, Classic)
November 2026
Binti | Binti
Nnedi Okorafor (Fiction Afro-Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop | Kultur: Eine neue Geschichte der Welt
Martin Puchner (Non-fiction)
Past books
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
February 2025:
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
March 2025:
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
The Shining by Stephen King
April 2025:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
September “Special” 2025:
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
September 2025:
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Seasonal reading salons:
Every quarter or so (sometimes every 3 months, sometimes every 4 months), we have a broad theme and a few recommended titles to get you started. You’re welcome to read any titles that fall into that theme (any genre) over the coming months. We’ll meet for a free-style book discussion, where anything goes, as long as you can link it briefly to the theme.
Past seasonal salons
- Coming up in Autumn 2026:
Reading with Pictures – Comic Books, Graphic, & Manga - Summer 2026:
Brushing up on Art - Winter 2025:
Island Style - Summer 2025:
The Summer of Self-Help
Other formats
Speed Booking
Speed dating for book lovers: sharing recommendations so that book lovers and aspiring readers can find new inspiration for future reads.
Silent Reading Dates
Struggling to make time to read? Join us for a Silent Reading Date: we’ll meet at a coffee shop or other venue, say a quick hello and share our choice of reading material, then spend an hour reading in silence, in the community of fellow readers.
Optional: at the end of the hour, we’ll have some social time – tell each other about your book, your day, your life!
Cook & Book
A new, experimental format. We choose a cook book (or a book that has recipes – it might be a memoir, a novel, or an historical book), and cook a selection of recipes from the book. We come together to try the food, to talk and to simply enjoy being in the company of fellow readers. Expand your horizons and try some new food, too!
More information
The Innsbruck Reads Book Club is a friendly, bi-lingual (English-German) book club group based in the heart of the Alps, in beautiful Innsbruck. We try to choose books that are available in DE & EN, and you are welcome to read in whatever language you like.
Discussions typically take place in either English or German, and often, a bit of a mix of the two.
We currently have about +-120 members on our list, but the number of people who turn up to each book club meeting varies from 6-20.
You are welcome to join us and come as often as you like. Whatever your age, gender, cultural background, or beliefs, if you love books and are open to discussions about what we read, then you are WELCOME!
Feeling a bit shy? You are also welcome to “lurk” on the list and enjoy occasional updates and recommendations, and join us when you’re having a good day, too!
Behind the book club
