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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!

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

 

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

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.