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

 

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

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.