Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

1. “The Dutch House” by Ann Patchett 2. “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” by Bryan Stevenson 3. “The Great Believers” by Rebecca

Makkai 4. “The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border” by

Francisco Cantú 5. “Ask Again, Yes” by Mary Beth Keane — Bill H., Chicago

This is for a book club, so I hope I didn’t mess this up. This novel has some elements that bug me a little, but I can’t deny that it’s stuck in my brain in interesting ways over the years: “The Marriage

Plot” by Jeffrey Eugenides.

1. “Angels Burning” by Tawni O’Dell 2. “The Stories of John Cheever” by John

Cheever

3. “Bangkok 8” by John Burdett 4. “The Island of the Sea Women” by Lisa See

5. “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” by Katherine Boo — Cindy J., Chicago

I was recently acquainted with the Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries from Fred Vargas. Set in France, it’s a quirky crime/ mystery series. Cindy should start with “The Chalk Circle Man.”

1. “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties” by Tom

O’Neill

2. “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the Berlin Olympics” by Daniel James

Brown

3. “The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire” by John Eisenberg

4. “Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood With Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour” by Lynne Olson 5. “A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father” by David Maraniss

— Mike D., Darien

This lists indicates that Mike likes nonfiction and sports, so I’m going with “Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World

of ESPN” by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, an oral history of the sports network that for now is stuck with reruns.