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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
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance
Devil House
Sea of Tranquility
Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools
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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 (Anniversary)
Want
The Jesus Cow
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
We Run the Tides
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Biblioracle Books of the Year - 2021
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When the Stars Begin to Fall: Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America
The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal--And How to Set Them Right
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
On Juneteenth
My Begging Chart
Matrix
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Crossroads
We Run the Tides
Dream Girl
The Trees
Subdivision
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John's Books
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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
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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
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Books That Inform and Inspire My Teaching
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Educating Moral People: A Caring Alternative to Character Education
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 Underprepared
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
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
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
I Love Learning; I Hate School: An Anthropology of College
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Biblioracle Books of the Year - 2020
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Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club
Telephone
Leave the World Behind
A Children's Bible
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back
Bullets for Dead Hoods: An Encyclopedia of Chicago Mobsters, C. 1933
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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: Reese's Book Club: 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
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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
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Laurie Colwin Reissues
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Goodbye Without Leaving
Family Happiness
The Lone Pilgrim
Happy All the Time
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