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Best Books
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Best Books of Ancient Literature: Essential Classical Texts
The best books of ancient literature — from The Iliad and The Odyssey to Medea and The Republic. Essential classical texts from Greece and Rome.
Best Books Set at Sea: Essential Maritime Fiction and Nonfiction
The best books set at sea — from Moby-Dick and Life of Pi to The Old Man and the Sea and The Perfect Storm. Essential maritime fiction and nonfiction.
Best Books Set in Greece: Essential Fiction and Nonfiction
The best books set in Greece — from Zorba the Greek and Captain Corelli's Mandolin to My Family and Other Animals. Essential reading for Greece lovers.
Best Books Set in India: Essential Indian Fiction and Literature
The best books set in India — from Midnight's Children and The God of Small Things to A Passage to India and A Fine Balance. Essential Indian fiction.
Best Books Set in Italy: Essential Fiction and Nonfiction
The best books set in Italy — from A Room with a View and The Talented Mr. Ripley to My Brilliant Friend and The English Patient. Essential reading for Italy lovers.
Best Books Set in Russia: Essential Russian Fiction and Nonfiction
The best books set in Russia — from Anna Karenina and The Master and Margarita to A Gentleman in Moscow and The Gulag Archipelago. Essential Russian literature.
Best Books to Get Into Reading: Perfect Starting Points for New Readers
The best books to get into reading — from The Alchemist and Life of Pi to A Man Called Ove and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Perfect starting points.
Best Books with Unreliable Narrators: Fiction That Keeps You Guessing
The best books with unreliable narrators — from Gone Girl and Lolita to The Remains of the Day and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Fiction that keeps you guessing.
Best Dark Academia Books: Essential Reading for the Genre
The best dark academia books — from The Secret History and If We Were Villains to The Name of the Rose and The Historian. Essential dark academia reading.
Best Debut Novels: The Greatest First Books in Literature
The best debut novels — from The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird to Normal People and Shuggie Bain. The greatest first books ever written.
Best Founder and Startup Memoirs: Essential Business Books
The best founder and startup memoirs — from Shoe Dog and Steve Jobs to Zero to One and The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Essential business reading.
Best Holocaust Books: Essential Reading on the Shoah
The best Holocaust books — from Night and Man's Search for Meaning to The Diary of a Young Girl, The Book Thief, and Fatelessness. Essential reading on the Shoah.
Best Irish Literature: Essential Novels and Books from Ireland
The best Irish literature — from Joyce and Beckett to Sally Rooney and Claire Keegan. Essential novels from Ireland across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Best Long Books Worth the Commitment: Epic Reads Over 600 Pages
The best long books worth reading — from War and Peace and Middlemarch to A Little Life and Infinite Jest. Epic reads that reward the commitment they require.
Best Love Stories in Literature: Greatest Romantic Novels
The best love stories in literature — from Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina to Atonement and Normal People. The greatest romantic novels ever written.
Best Memoirs of All Time: The Essential Reading List
The best memoirs ever written — from The Year of Magical Thinking and Educated to Born a Crime, Becoming, and When Breath Becomes Air. Memoirs chosen for literary quality and honest witness.
Best Multigenerational Fiction: Epic Family Sagas Across Time
The best multigenerational fiction — from Pachinko and Homegoing to One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits. Epic family sagas across generations.
Best Narrative Nonfiction Books: Essential True Stories
The best narrative nonfiction books — from The Devil in the White City and Say Nothing to Empire of Pain and The Warmth of Other Suns. Essential true stories.
Best Novellas and Short Novels: Masterpieces Under 200 Pages
The best novellas and short novels — from The Stranger and Of Mice and Men to Heart of Darkness and The Metamorphosis. Masterpieces readable in a single sitting.
Best Page-Turner Books: Novels You Can't Put Down
The best page-turner books — from Gone Girl and The Silent Patient to The Kite Runner and The Girl on the Train. Novels you absolutely cannot put down.
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