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

 

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.

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

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.