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Kari Herrera

Co-host. Reads to avoid people. Writes two newsletters: one about Chicago, the other about travel. Find her online @Chicagoings.

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King Lear by William Shakespeare

  • May 16, 2024
  • Tagged as: Classics, Fiction

A man’s enemies will be persons of his own household. In one of the most tragic classics, we are forced to stare unflinchingly into a household descending into madness and chaos.

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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  • May 9, 2024
  • Tagged as: Classics, Fiction

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect..” The most kafkaesque book we’ve ever read is about isolation, capitalism, and the meaning of…

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

  • May 2, 2024
  • Tagged as: Black Writers, Fiction, Plays and Theater, Women Writers

One family’s matriarch does all she can to honor her late husband’s memory, save her son from despair, and support the dreams of her daughter — Is there hope for them, a family who the world is against, a family who already feels death inside the walls of their dwelling?

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No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

  • April 25, 2024
  • Tagged as: Fiction, thriller

What would you give for 2.4M dollars? Would you give up everything, and if so, in what order would you choose to abandon your life and everyone in it? One man must quickly decide his answer. What he chooses and what happens next is a story that uncovers the not-so-secret depravity of an entire country.

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ReLIT: Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewel

  • April 18, 2024
  • Tagged as: Fiction, thriller, Women Writers
On the tenth anniversary of her youngest daughter's disappearance, one woman must choose to let go of her pain and reopen herself to life and love. After meeting a charming writer, who reminds her of her ex-husband, she begins a path that takes her somewhere she never imagined — to the truth about her daughter's disappearance a decade earlier.

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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

  • April 11, 2024
  • Tagged as: Fiction, Women Writers

Not all heroes wear capes or have long epic trilogies written about them. Some live quiet lives, doing what they can to protect the most vulnerable. In a small Irish town, one man must choose if he’ll become a hero or remain a silent enabler of a horrific system perpetrated by the church of his community.

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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  • April 4, 2024
  • Tagged as: Black Writers, Fiction

An enslaved woman on a cotton plantation is considered an outcast by her fellow Africans, and as she comes into womanhood, her problems increase. What will she decide when a new enslaved man, Caesar, invites her to escape?

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ReLIT: The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  • March 28, 2024
  • Tagged as: Non-Fiction, Women Writers
One girl, the beloved only child of progressive parents, is sent to school in Austria. This is the story of her childhood, growing up in a time of war and revolution. Her parents hope that she'll escape what they see as Iran's oppressive regime. Together, she and her country must decide who they're supposed to be and who they actually are.

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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff

  • March 14, 2024
  • Tagged as: Non-Fiction

It is a riveting story of a company that toppled global giants before succumbing to the ruthlessly competitive forces of Silicon Valley. 

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I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin

  • February 29, 2024
  • Tagged as: Black Writers, Non-Fiction

A filmmaker pulls together a writer’s unfinished work to reveal truths about racial relations in America.

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