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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!

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

 

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

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.