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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.