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

 

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

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.