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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.