Book recommendations from the Biblioracle

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

1. “Mean Spirit” by Linda Hogan

2. “The Hearing Trumpet” by Leonora Carrington

3. “So Big” by Edna Ferber

4. “The Expendable Man” by Dorothy B. Hughes

5. “Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St. John Mandel

— Ellen L., Chicago

Ellen is well acquainted with reissued classic novels from earlier times, which makes me think she’ll be able to track down a copy of W.M. Spackman’s “An Armful of Warm Girl.”

1. “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles

2. “The Last Green Valley” by Mark T. Sullivan

3. “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder” by David Grann

4. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King

5. “An Officer and a Spy” by Robert Harris — Mark O., Indian Head Park

Lauren Beukes is sort of one of a kind as a writer of fantasy suspense, and I say that even when confronted with a list of books that contains Stephen King. The specific pick is “Broken Monsters.”

1. “The Sorrows of Young Werther” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

2. “The Zone of Interest” by Martin Amis

3. “Commandant of Auschwitz” by Rudolf Höss

4. “Man in the Holocene” by Max Frisch

5. “Danton’s Death” by Georg Büchner

— Tonia L., Chicago

For Tonia, I’m recommending a strange and mysterious novel by John Fowles, “The Magus.”