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British Literature
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Where to Start with Gail Honeyman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gail Honeyman — how to approach Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, her essential debut novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with H.G. Wells: A Reading Guide
Where to start with H.G. Wells — how to approach The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and his other scientific romances. A complete reading guide to the father of science fiction.
Where to Start with Iain M. Banks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Iain M. Banks — how to approach the Culture series, his post-scarcity space opera sequence, and The Wasp Factory, his non-SF literary novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.K. Rowling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.K. Rowling — how to approach the Harry Potter series, from the Sorcerer's Stone through the Deathly Hallows, and which book is the series at its best. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James Allen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Allen — how to approach As a Man Thinketh, his 1903 sixty-eight-page masterwork on thought, character, and the mind as a garden that grows what you plant in it. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jeffrey Archer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jeffrey Archer — how to approach Kane and Abel, his most ambitious novel, a sweeping twentieth-century saga following two men born on the same day who rise from opposite ends of the world to a rivalry of consuming intensity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Johann Hari: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Johann Hari — whether to begin with Lost Connections or Stolen Focus. A complete reading guide to the British journalist and author.
Where to Start with John Milton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Milton — how to approach Paradise Lost, the greatest English epic, written blind from memory and dictation, about Satan's fall and the expulsion from Eden. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.R.R. Tolkien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.R.R. Tolkien — whether to begin with The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, and how to approach The Silmarillion. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Lewis Carroll: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lewis Carroll — whether to begin with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Mary Beard: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Beard — how to approach SPQR, her comprehensive and revisionist history of ancient Rome that asks the questions about Roman identity and citizenship that still resonate today. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Mary Shelley: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Shelley — whether to begin with Frankenstein, The Last Man, or Mathilda. A complete reading guide to the inventor of science fiction.
Where to Start with Mary Stewart: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Stewart — whether to begin with The Crystal Cave or The Hollow Hills. A complete reading guide to the British Arthurian novelist.
Where to Start with Matthew Walker: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Matthew Walker — how to approach Why We Sleep, his essential book on sleep science. A complete reading guide to the British neuroscientist's work.
Where to Start with Oliver Burkeman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Oliver Burkeman — how to approach Four Thousand Weeks, his essential book on time, finitude, and meaning. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Oliver Sacks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Oliver Sacks — whether to begin with The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, or his later memoirs. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Frankopan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Frankopan — how to approach The Silk Roads, his sweeping revisionist history that reorients world civilisation away from Europe and toward the trade routes linking East and West. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Mayle: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Mayle — how to approach A Year in Provence, the book that invented a genre, his warmly funny account of abandoning an advertising career to renovate a farmhouse in the Luberon and discover a way of life organised around food. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Philip Reeve: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Philip Reeve — how to approach Mortal Engines, his visionary debut fantasy about a post-apocalyptic world of predatory mobile cities, a junior historian thrown from London, and the ancient weapon that could destroy them all. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor — how to approach Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, their funny and quietly devastating expansion of the beloved sitcom about the last human alive, three million years into a future without anyone else. A complete reading guide.
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