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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.