Quiet Library: a Book Club

Quiet Library: a Book Club meets at the Spades Park Branch on Wednesday, November 18, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM. It's a book discussion program run by the Indianapolis Public Library, aimed at seniors and adults, and the format is pretty straightforward: you bring whatever you're currently reading and settle in for a quiet hour and a half of uninterrupted reading and relaxing. It's not a typical book club where everyone reads the same title and debates it; you bring your own book, and the whole point is just to have a dedicated space to get through it.

The Spades Park Branch is a good spot for that. The 7,500-square-foot building was built with a $120,000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and opened in 1912, six months after the city's other remaining Carnegie library, the East Washington Branch. It went through a $610,000 renovation in 1987 and celebrated its centenary in 2012, so it's been a part of the neighborhood for over a century.

This is part of a series, not a one-off. The sessions run on Wednesdays from 3:00 to 4:30 PM on October 21, November 18, and December 16, 2026. If you can't make this one, there's another date coming up in December. It's free to attend, and the branch is at 1801 Nowland Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46201.