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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!

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

 

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

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.