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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.