Denver Parks Book Club at La Alma Lincoln Park

The Rocky Mountain Land Library is excited to announce the Denver Parks Book Club Series' second season, where the places we meet will also have their own stories to tell. We’ve gathered some of our favorite books on nature and the West for the club to read and discuss. Our book club discussions will be held at some of the lesser-known City Parks across Denver. Throughout the book club series, we will be discovering hidden surprises along the way; parks that have stories to add to the books we’ll be reading.

There will also be an underlining theme to all of the Denver Parks Book Club discussions: our basic human need for parks and open space. With each session we’ll take a moment to explore the history of the park and neighborhoods where we meet.

La Alma Lincoln Park: Kali Fajardo-Anstine's gripping novel Woman of Light reclaims the lost stories of five generations of a Chicano in the American West -- from the "Lost Territory" of the south to 1930's Denver.

We'll be meeting at La Alma Lincoln Park, one of Denver's oldest parks, set in a vibrant neighborhood that has its own stories to tell. From its immigrant roots, to its role in the Chicano Movement of the 60's and 70's, the La Alma (the soul) neighborhood has a deep history that we'll be sure to explore!

"A rare and wondrous kind of novel that assembles the universe from mere words, whose unforgettable characters haunt like long shadows in the southwestern light." -- author Gary Shteyngart

The Denver Parks Book Club discussions are free, but space is limited. Be sure to register at the links above. You can sign up for all the books, or just one! All the discussions will be outdoors, and we’ll be sending more information to everyone registered. The Book Club’s Sunday meetings will get underway at 10:00 am and conclude at 12:00 pm, with plenty of time for everyone to explore and appreciate our host city park.

Chris Englert’s book Discovering Denver Parks was published in 2020. It quickly became one of the Land Library’s favorite pandemic books, inspiring the Denver Parks Book Club series. We highly recommend Chris’s book for anyone who wants to explore Denver’s 165 city and mountain parks.

Host or Publisher Rocky Mountain Land Library