Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

John Warner tells you what to read based on the last five books you’ve read.

1. “Writers & Lovers” by Lily King

2. “Harbour Street” by Ann Cleeves

3. “Twenty Years at Hull House” by Jane Addams

4. “The House of Broken Angels” by Luis Alberto Urrea

5. “Girl, Woman, Other” by Bernardine Evaristo

— Laura F., Oak Park

There are always more good books than there is bandwidth to bring them to people’s attention, and one that deserved more of that attention from a few years ago is the tense family drama

“Small Hours” by Jennifer Kitses.

1. “The Greek Villa” by Judith Gould

2. “The Movement of Stars” by Amy Brill

3. “Queen Bee” by Dorothea Benton Frank

4. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

5. “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold — Joyce D., Plainfield

“You Came Back” by Christopher Coake is just a beautiful and heartbreaking (in a good way) book that I think Joyce will be taken away by.

1. “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America” by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig

2. “Disloyal” The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump” by Michael Cohen

3. “Fear: Trump in the White House”

by Bob Woodward

4. “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man” by Mary L. Trump

5. “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump” by Stuart Stevens

— Robert M., Chicago

In his email, Robert asks for an intervention to take him away from any more books about Donald Trump. I’m happy to oblige for him and anyone else who needs a similar break by recommending Jess Walter’s terrific new tale, “The Cold Millions.”