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

 

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.

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

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.