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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!

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

 

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

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.