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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.