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!
Book club meetup in Innsbruck
We typically post the next 3 books and dates at a time. This gives people enough time to read the books AND gives everyone a chance to register. We use LUMA to manage events, a a simple tool that doesn’t require complicated registration.
Upcoming dates:
Planned books on our list & event formats
Our Monthly Monday Meetup is our regular format. We also have quarterly-ish reading salons, and a Cooks & Books gathering. We occasionally organise casual summer gatherings and an annual end-of-year event.
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
Jan 2025:
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-ish (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
Summer 2025: The Summer of Self-Help
Cooks & Books (Without Borders!)
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!
Past seasonal salons
Summer 2025: The Summer of Self-Help
Join the book club
There is no fee to join the book club. If you’d like to be notified of future book club dates, 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?!)
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 +-90 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
The book club is run by me, Suzanne Whitby. If you want to get in touch, feel free to send a note to me at hi@suzannewhiby.com.