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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.