Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

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

1. “Matrix” by Lauren Groff

2. “The Space Between Worlds” by Micaiah Johnson

3.“Bewilderment” by Richard Powers

4. “Theory of Bastards” by Audrey Schulman

5. “Razorblade Tears” by S.A. Cosby

— Karla H. Grinnell, Iowa

Karla clearly doesn’t mind a little of the speculative in her fiction, so I’m recommending one of my favorite books from last year that dwells in that territory:

“The 22 Murders of Madison May” by Max Barry.

1. “The Wake” by Paul Kingsnorth

2. “Ghost Wall” by Sarah Moss

3. “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow

4. “In the Eye of the Wild” by Nastassja Martin

5. “When We Cease to Understand the World” by Benjamin Labatut

— Max M., Denver, Colorado

Max seems to be drawn to fiction that includes philosophizing, and also doesn’t mind some darkness in the tale. I’m going with a classic in that vein, “Journey to the End of the Night” by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1. “The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America” by George Packer

2. “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race” by Walter Isaacson

3. “The Premonition” by Michael Lewis

4. “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” by Arlie Russell Hochschild

5. “Mercy” by David Baldacci

— Ray C., Elmhurst

Ray looks like someone doing some reading to try to figure out what the heck is going on in the world around him, and I don’t blame him for a second. I’m recommending a book that may be less likely to be on his radar, “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People” by Jared Yates Sexton.