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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!

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

 

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

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.