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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!

Death Comes As the End, Agatha Christie
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash #4), Elizabeth Strout *
Jackie and Me, Louis Bayard
Time Pieces, John Banville
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
The Sanatorium, Sarah Pearse
Fire Keeper's Daughter, Angeline Boulley
Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
Exiles (Aaron Falk #3), Jane Harper
Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls
Her Hidden Genius, Marie Benedict
Art in the Blood (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure #1), Bonnie MacBird
How To Be Eaten, Maria Adelmann
Have You Seen Luis Velez?, Catherine Ryan Hyde
The Unsinkable Greta James, Jennifer E. Smith
The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles *
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Jack Zipes
The Revolutionary, Samuel Adams, Stacy Schiff
The Mitford Affair, Marie Benedict
The Huntress, Kate Quinn
All This Could Be Different, Sarah Thankam Mathews
Vaccines Change the World, Gillian King-Cargile; illustrations by Sandie Sonke
Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales #12), Dorothea Benton Frank
The Christmas Bookshop, Jenny Colgan
The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing
The Violin Conspiracy, Brendan Slocumb *
Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney
The New Life, Tom Crewe
My Government Means to Kill Me, Rasheed Newson
Better Late Than Never (Library Lover's Mystery #7), Jenn McKinlay
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
The Tobacco Wives, Adele Myers
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin
The Half Moon, Mary Beth Keane
Pineapple Street, Jenny Jackson
Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson *
They’re Going to Love You, Meg Howrey
Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree
Take My Hand, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Fury, Salman Rushdie
The Woman and the Ape, Peter Høeg
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1), Naomi Novik
City of God, E. L. Doctorow
Love, Toni Morrison
We are the Brennans, Tracey Lange
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies, Tara Schuster
The Winners, Fredrik Backman
The Heroine with 1001 Faces, Maria Tatar
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Years, Annie Ernaux
Straight Man, Richard Russo
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Benjamin Stevenson
Someone Else’s Shoes, Jojo Moyes
Hidden Valley Road, Robert Kolker
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Last Time I Lied, Riley Sager
That Night, Chevy Stevens
Run Me To Earth, Paul Yoon
Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner
Murder Is Easy (Superintendent Battle #4), Agatha Christie
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Milk Blood Heat, Dantiel W. Moniz
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman
Up with the Sun, Thomas Mallon
Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall
The Minus-One Club, Kekla Magoon
The Heavens May Fall (Detective Max Rupert #3), Allen Eskens
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, Daniel Silva
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
The Girl Behind the Wall, Mandy Robotham
Horse, Geraldine Brooks *
Trust, Hernan Diaz *
Iron Lake (Cork O’Connor #1), William Kent Krueger
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook, Ellen Marie Wiseman
The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz
Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor #19), William Kent Krueger
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir, Ashley C. Ford
The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles
The Color Purple, Alice Walker *
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, Nina Totenberg *
Heaven’s Keep (Cork O’Connor #9), William Kent Krueger
Yellowface, R. F. Kuang
Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult
Then She Was Gone, Lisa Jewell
West with Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
The Levee, William Kent Krueger
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath, Bill Browder
Ben, In the World, Doris Lessing
The Far Field, Madhuri Vijay
We Begin at the End, Chris Whitaker *
The Fortunes of Jaded Women, Carolyn Huynh
Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six, Lisa Unger

 

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.

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

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.