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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!

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

 

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

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.