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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!

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

 

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

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.