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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.