Recs if you like The Nix...
a plague o’ both your houses!
texts about generational curses within families, featuring a touch of strangeness/surrealism/wonder/magical realism.
Popular Fiction of the Decade
Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025
2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers
and when I’m back in Chicago…
I FEEL IT! books set in Chicago or where Chicago is important in some major way. fiction and non-fiction.
Off Color Book Club Books
All the books selected by Betsy and Ben for the Off Color Book Club at the Mousetrap in Chicago
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