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

 

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

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.