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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.