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Book Lovers’ Recommendations

Orchestrated by Louis Muñoz, one of our Reference Librarians, the Book Lovers’ Circle is a great way to find out about new titles, hear others’ recommendations and reviews, and spend a great hour together. Below you can find some recommended titles.

Book Lovers’ Circle: What We’re Reading!

Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Better Late Than Never (Library Lover
City of God, E. L. Doctorow
Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
My Government Means to Kill Me, Rasheed Newson
Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales #12), Dorothea Benton Frank
The Girl Behind the Wall, Mandy Robotham
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Time Pieces, John Banville
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor #19), William Kent Krueger
Run Me To Earth, Paul Yoon
Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
Horse, Geraldine Brooks *
The Minus-One Club, Kekla Magoon
We are the Brennans, Tracey Lange
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
Love, Toni Morrison
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir, Ashley C. Ford
Iron Lake (Cork O’Connor #1), William Kent Krueger
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Daniel Silva
The Fortunes of Jaded Women, Carolyn Huynh
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz
They’re Going to Love You, Meg Howrey
The Winners, Fredrik Backman
Yellowface, R. F. Kuang
The Tobacco Wives, Adele Myers
That Night, Chevy Stevens
The Years, Annie Ernaux
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3), Jane Harper
Her Hidden Genius, Marie Benedict
The Color Purple, Alice Walker *
We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker *
Jackie and Me, Louis Bayard
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, Ellen Marie Wiseman
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
The Levee, William Kent Krueger
The Revolutionary, Samuel Adams, Stacy Schiff
The Half Moon, Mary Beth Keane
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles *
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
Straight Man, Richard Russo
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles
The Heavens May Fall (Detective Max Rupert #3), Allen Eskens
The Mitford Affair, Marie Benedict
The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, Tara Schuster
Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
Fire Keeper
The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb *
All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout *
How To Be Eaten, Maria Adelmann
Ben, In the World, Doris Lessing
The Last Time I Lied, Riley Sager
The New Life, Tom Crewe
The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall
Death Comes As the End, Agatha Christie
The Sorcerer
The Huntress, Kate Quinn
Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
Trust, Hernan Diaz *
Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson *
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, Lisa Unger
Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle #4), Agatha Christie
The Sanatorium, Sarah Pearse
Up with the Sun, Thomas Mallon
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
Vaccines Change the World, Gillian King-Cargile; illustrations by Sandie Sonke
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
Have You Seen Luis Velez?, Catherine Ryan Hyde
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1), Naomi Novik
Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson
Art in the Blood (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure #1), Bonnie MacBird
Fury, Salman Rushdie
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, Nina Totenberg *
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
The Unsinkable Greta James, Jennifer E. Smith
West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman
Heaven’s Keep (Cork O’Connor #9), William Kent Krueger
The Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan
The Woman and the Ape, Peter Høeg

 

Book Lovers’ Circle: Our Favorite Books of 2022

These titles were the ones we most enjoyed in 2022, although they were not all published in 2022.

A Rover
All That’s Left in the World, Erik J. Brown
Either/Or, Elif Batuman
Call Your Daughter Home, Deb Spera
Oh William! (Amgash #3), Elizabeth Strout
This Tender Land, William Kent Krueger.
The Girls in the Stilt House, Kelly Mustian
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles.
Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
The Hours, Michael Cunningham
Caves, Nell Cross Beckerman (Illustrations: Kalen Chock)
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
Trust, Hernan Diaz
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 – The Pillars of Civilization, Yuval Noah Harari (Illustrations: David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave)
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
All the Young Men, Ruth Coker Burks
Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II, Richard Cahan and Michael Williams
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
Will, Will Smith
The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah
The Guncle, Steven Rowley
Book Lovers, Emily Henry
The Lion in Winter, James Goldman
The Dove in the Belly, Jim Grimsley
The Deviant
The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.
Finding Me, Viola Davis
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World, Giles Milton
The End of Temperance Dare, Wendy Webb
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout
Olga Dies Dreaming, Xóchitl González
Verity, Colleen Hoover
The Last House on the Street, Diane Chamberlain
A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne
Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley, Shaun David Hutchinson (Illustrations: Christine Larsen)
When the Sky Glows, Nell Cross Beckerman (Illustrations: David Litchfield )
The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill
The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (Illustrations: David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave)
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak
The Trees, Percival Everett
The Children on the Hill, Jennifer McMahon
Honor, Thrity Umrigar
House of Sticks, Ly Tran
Palimpsest, Gore Vidal
 

Archive: Book Lovers Recommendations
You can browse our past Book Lovers Recommendations, which are a list of titles chosen by our Book Lovers Club and annotated by the wonderful and now retired Sue Lipstein.