Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

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

1. “How I Became a Famous Novelist” by Steve Hely 2. “Dear Committee Members” by Julie Schumacher 3. “Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall — and Those Fighting to Reverse It” by Steven Brill 4. “Confessions” by Kanae Minato 5. “Rules of Civility” by Amor Towles — Russ J., Gurnee

Russ tells me he sees the column while reading the Sunday paper and listening to Celtic music on satellite radio, and this is about the nicest thing I heard this week. Based on those first two books on his list, Russ might be a good candidate for “Antkind,” but my official recommendation is “The Sellout” by Paul Beatty.

1. “The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz” by Erik Larson 2. “Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941” by Lynne

Olson 3. “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline

Miller 4. “Ordinary Grace” by WIlliam Kent

Krueger 5. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens — Betsy S., Waukegan

Casting back a few years, I think Betsy will find this novel engrossing — particularly given the last two books on her list:

“A Thousand Acres” by Jane Smiley.

1. “The Education of a Coach” by David

Halberstam 2. “The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz” by Erik Larson 3. “American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant” by Ronald C. White 4. “With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln” by Stephen

B. Oates 5. “The Man in the High Castle” by

Philip K. Dick — Scott N., Carol Stream

For Scott, a classic of science fiction that I think will appeal to the part of him drawn to Philip K. Dick, “A Canticle for

Leibowitz” by Walter M. Miller Jr.