The Roaming Readers meet twice a month at Hoover Forest Preserve. Unlike a traditional book club, the Roaming Readers do not read a certain book each month – instead, they get out in nature, wander in the woods, enjoy some fresh air, and chat about whatever they’ve been reading lately. The Roamers love to share their favorite authors and books that have gotten them excited recently. If you’d like to join them, meet the Roaming Readers at Hoover Forest Preserve (11285 W Fox Road in Yorkville) in the gravel parking lot closest to Fox Road (don’t go past the train tracks) at 9am on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month.
Here are some titles the Roaming Readers have recently recommended:
| Title | Author |
| Travels with George | Nathaniel Philibrick |
| Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Gramus |
| The Book of Cold Cases | Bonnie St. James |
| The Measure | Nikki Erlick |
| The Marriage Portrait | Maggie O’Farrell |
| Hidden Pictures | Jason Rekulak |
| The Amelia Peabody Series (starting with Crocodile on the Sandbank) | Elizabeth Peters |
| Remarkable Bright Creatures | Shelby Van Pelt |
| The Rose Code | Kate Quinn |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
| Leave the World Behind: A Novel | Rumaan Alam |
| West with Giraffes | Lynda Rutledge |
| Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results | James Clear |
| The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate | Peter Wohllben |
| The Wolf Hall Trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bringing Up the Bodies, & The Mirror and the Light) | Hilary Mantel |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| My Sister the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite |
| The Lioness | Chris Bohjalian |
| The Book of Eels | Patrick Svensson |
| Other Birds | Sarah Addison Allen |
| The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear | Kate Moore |
| Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To | David Sinclair |
| The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America | Joe Posnanski |
