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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!

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

 

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

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.