Below, 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. The club continues to meet once a month. While the annotated recommendations retired with Sue, you can find a plethora of wonderful suggestions in these past posts. Happy browsing, and happy reading!
- Book Lovers Recommendations December 2020 Part II December 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein All The Young Men By Ruth Coker Burks This is the memoir of Ruth, who, in 1986, visited a friend in the hospital and watched how an AIDs patient was being shunned. When…
- Book Lovers Recommendations December 2020 December 18, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Ex Libris By Michiko Kakutani This is your holiday gift to someone special-or yourself. It is an annotated list of 100 books from all genres suggested by a former book editor of the…
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2020 Part II December 4, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Daddy By Emma Cline Ten stories about ordinary people living what first appears to be very ordinary lives, but then the stories take a switch. The author wants us to think about what…
- Book Lovers Recommendations November 2020 November 11, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic By Andrew Cuomo This book goes behind the scenes showing what had to transpire in New York State in order to go from a state…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2020 Part II October 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Dear Child By Romy Hausmann A debut thriller. A young woman is found who has been living in captivity for 13 years and has given birth to two children. She claims to be…
- Book Lovers Recommendations October 2020 October 7, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein A Room Called Earth By Madeleine Ryan This is a debut novel and tells a very simple story. A young Australian girl goes to a party. Things appear normal, but when we get inside her…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2020 Part II September 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein All the Devils are Here By Louise Penny The is the 16th in the Inspector Gamache series. This one takes place in Paris when a good friend of Gamache’s is killed in what…
- Book Lovers Recommendations September 2020 September 14, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Daughter of the Reich By Louise Fein Hetta, a young girl in the 1930’s, is the perfect German child-except that she has fallen in love with her brother’s best friend from childhood-a Jew. Slowly Hetta…
- Book Lovers Recommendations August 2020 August 12, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Color of Air By Gail Tsukiyama In 1935, Daniel, a young doctor returns to his native Hawaii after practicing medicine in Chicago. He returns to a family filled with secrets that slowly unravel…
- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2020 Part II July 16, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein A Burning By Magha Majundar This is a debut novel by an Asian-Indian author. Jivan, a young Muslim student is falsely accused of being part of a train bombing which left over 100…
- Book Lovers Recommendations July 2020 July 2, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein Becoming Wild-How American Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty and Achieve Peace By Carl Safina Safina, a MacArthur “genius,” believes that human beings are not the only animals that create a culture which helps…
- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2020 Part II June 16, 2020 - Recommendations by Sue Lipstein All Adults Here By Emma Straub It’s a multigenerational cast, starting with widowed Astrid, the matriarch, living in a small Hudson valley town, who decides to tell her grown children some secrets about her life. …
- Book Lovers Recommendations June 2020 June 4, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Butterfly Girl By Rene Denfeld – 9780062698186 This is the second novel featuring Naomi Cottle as an investigator whose forte is finding missing children. This time, Naomi has pledged to find her own missing…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2020 Part II May 21, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Animals at Lockwood Manor By Jane Healey This is a debut novel set in England in 1939. Hetty Cartwright, only 30 and single, is given the responsibility of taking care of the mammal collection of…
- Book Lovers Recommendations May 2020 May 7, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Afterlife By Julia Alvarez A return to adult fiction by renowned author Alvarerz. Antonia Vega, an immigrant from the Domenican Republic, her sisters and an undocumented pregnant teen-ager all that center stage in this novel…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2020 Part II April 15, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein Book of Lost Friends By Lisa Wingate Lisa Wingate based this historical fiction on actual advertisements she saw in Southern newspapers after the Civil War. Three women from Louisiana head out for Texas. Two are…
- Book Lovers Recommendations April 2020 April 2, 2020 - Recommendations by Susan Lipstein (These books are all available as ebooks) Dear Edward By Ann Napolitano Twelve year old Edward is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills every other person on board the aircraft,…
