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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.