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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.