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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.