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The Biblioracle Recommends

Every week at the Chicago Tribune John Warner, aka The Biblioracle, recommends what people should read based on their five most recent reads. If you'd like a recommendation, send an email of your five most recent reads along with your first name, last initial, and hometown to: [email protected] All affiliate proceeds go to support Open Books in Chicago, an organization dedicated to providing all young people access to books.

Best of 2022 (So Far)
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Cyclorama
Mercury Pictures Presents
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
Devil House
Sea of Tranquility
Joan Is Okay
Mouth to Mouth
Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
Search
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
Books Recommended - 2022
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Parable of the Sower
Olive Kitteridge
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
All the Birds in the Sky
Laura & Emma
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
The Nix
Journey to the End of the Night
The Seven Storey Mountain (Anniversary)
The End of Vandalism
Austerlitz
Want
The Jesus Cow
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
We Run the Tides
Biblioracle Books of the Year - 2021
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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
On Juneteenth
Led Zeppelin: The Biography
My Begging Chart
Matrix
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Crossroads
We Run the Tides
Dream Girl
John's Books
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Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education
The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing
Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
Tough Day for the Army: Stories
The Best of McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Books Recommended - 2021
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The Song of Achilles
The Writing Class
Heat and Light
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
The Chain
What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
Beautiful Ruins
The End of Vandalism
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
The Trees
The Report
Subdivision
Hopscotch
The Turner House
Let the Great World Spin
Books That Inform and Inspire My Teaching
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Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education
Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning
The Promise of Public Education in America
Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers
Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Un Derprepared
Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us
Ratchetdemic: Reimagining Academic Success
Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning
Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do about It
What the Best College Teachers Do
Biblioracle Books of the Year - 2020
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Such a Fun Age
The Cold Millions
Telephone
Want
Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick
Writers & Lovers
A Children's Bible
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, C. 1933
Short Stories Recommended by Me and the Council of Wise Readers
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
One Good Story, That One
The Book of Jeremiah: A Novel in Stories
You Want More: Selected Stories of George Singleton
Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories
American Salvage
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly: And Other Stories
You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
Fortune Smiles: Stories
All the Names They Used for God: Stories
Battleborn
There Are Jews in My House (Anchor Books)
Anything Is Possible
The Coast of Chicago
I Sailed with Magellan
Favorite Graywolf Press Books
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The Empathy Exams: Essays
Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction (Expanded)
Blackboard: A Personal History of the Classroom
Citizen: An American Lyric
White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination
The Report
Familiar
Cities I've Never Lived in: Stories
Blackass
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Duplex
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Telephone
The Trees
Laurie Colwin Reissues
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Goodbye Without Leaving
Another Marvelous Thing
Family Happiness
The Lone Pilgrim
Happy All the Time
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