Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

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

1. “No-No Boy” by John Okada

2. “Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight

3. “Galápagos” by Kurt Vonnegut

4. “The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America” by Jack Kelly

5. “The Queen of the South” by Arturo

Pérez-Reverte — Laurie B., Oak Park

I think Laurie will enjoy the combination of history and mystery in James Ellroy’s classic exploration of the Kennedy assassination, “American Tabloid.”

1. “Shadow and Light” by Jonathan Rabb

2. “Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russian, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth” by Rachel Maddow

3. “Children of Dune” by Frank Herbert

4. “The Prose Edda” by Snorri Sturluson

5. “Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America” by Adam Cohen — G. John M., Glenview

Lawrence Wright is such an interesting and wide-ranging writer, whom I’ve come to trust, even if I think I might not be interested in the subject matter. “God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State” illuminates more than what’s going on in Texas and speaks to the challenges the country is facing right now.

1. “Moriarty” by Anthony Horowitz

2. “Post Captain” by Patrick O’Brian

3. “The Feather Thief: Beauty Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century” by Kirk Wallace Johnson

4. “The Topeka School” by Ben Lerner

5. “Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island” by Earl Swift — Gerry M., Naperville

One of my favorite authors, Lydia Millet, has a new novel out: “A Children’s Bible.”

Seeing “The Topeka School” on this list makes me think it may be up Gerry’s alley.