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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.