Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

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

1. “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig

2. “The Hidden Life of Ice” by Marco Tedesco

3.“Grant” by Ron Chernow

4. “The Warmth of Other Suns” by Isabel Wilkerson

5.“Nomadland” by Jessica Bruder

— Fran F., Elburn

Fran’s interest in both history and the present combine in Matthew Desmond’s “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” an exploration of how hard we’ve made it for the working poor to hold onto a place to live, a story rooted in the past and compounded by current failures.

1. “Wanderers” by Chuck Wendig

2. “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles

3. “The Snowman” by Jo Nesbø

4. “Later” by Stephen King

5. “Three Apples Fell From the Sky” by Narine Abgaryan

— Karen F., Chicago

Herman Koch gives us intimate portraits of some dark people in dark places, which can make for tough reading, but it also is very compelling, particularly in the page-turner ”The Dinner.”

1. “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War” by Robert Gates

2. “The Last Hero: The Life of Henry Aaron” by Howard Bryant

3. “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead

4. “The Baseball Whisperer” by Michael Tackett Corazon

5. “Corazón tan blanco” by Javier Marías — Bill B., Des Plaines

Bill is clearly a baseball fan. I’m hoping I can introduce him to an utterly unique baseball novel, “The Universal Baseball Association” by Robert Coover.