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

 

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.

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

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.