Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

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

1. “The Library Book” by Susan Orlean

2. “10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World” by Elif Shafak

3. “We Ride Upon Sticks” by Quan Barry

4. “Luster” by Raven Leilani

5. “In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado

— Ciara M., New York

I’m betting that Ciara is familiar with the author Jenny Offill, but I’m also betting that she has not yet read her first novel, “Last Things,” because first novels tend to get overlooked when subsequent novels catch on.

1. “Fortune and Glory” by Janet Evanovich

2. “The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy” by Nora Roberts

3. “The Return” by Nicholas Sparks

4. “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley

5. “Royal” by Danielle Steel

— Eileen B., Glenview

This looks like the list of someone who might enjoy the playful and irreverent detective Isabel “Izzy” Spellman found in Lisa Lutz’s “The Spellman Files.”

1. “The Gulag Archipelago” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2. “Politics” by Aristotle

3. “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy

4. “The Secret River” by Kate Grenville

5. “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” by Olga Tokarczuk

— James H., Chicago

This is a reader not afraid of some darkness and a real challenge. For that, I’m recommending W.G. Sebald’s “Rings of Saturn.”