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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!

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

 

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.

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

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.