Feb 3, 2025
Rachel's
Recommendations
Favorite 2024: What's Not Mine by Nora Decter
Non-2024 book: Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2024 book no one read: Dead in Long Beach, California by
Venita Blackburn
Most anticipated 2025 by a Chicago author: Original Sins by
Eve L. Ewing
Most anticipated by an author with a long gap since last book:
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Small press titles: The Gloomy Girl Variety Show by Freda
Epum
Leave: A Postpartum Account by Shayne Terry
No Offense: A Memoir in Essays by Jackie Domenus
Friends might think you're nuts but sorry not sorry: The
Harder I Fight the More I Love You by Neko Case
Greg's Recommendations
Favorite 2024: There's Always This Year: On Basketball and
Ascension, by Hanif Abdurraqib
Non-2024 Book: Bunny, by Mona Awad
2024 Book No One Read: Familiaris, by David Wroblewski
Most Anticipated Chicago: All the Water in the World, by Eiren
Caffall
Most Anticipated after long gap: Dream Count, by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie
Most Anticipated Small Press: A Forty-Year Kiss, by Nickolas
Butler
Friends Might Think I'm Nuts: Great Big Beautiful Life, by
Emily Henry ... Mark Twain, by Ron Chernow
Mike's Recommendations
Street Fight by Anne Morrissy
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children
and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
People of Means by Nancy Johnson
Vanishing Daughters by Cynthia Pelayo
True Failure by Alex Higley
All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
The El by Theodore C. Van Alst Jr
The Antidote by Karen Russell
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity by Sarah
Schulman
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson,
Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature by Adam
Morgan
Waterline by Aram Mrjoian