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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.