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Contemporary Fiction
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Where to Start with Lauren Oliver: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lauren Oliver — whether to begin with Before I Fall, Delirium, or Pandemonium. A complete reading guide to the YA novelist.
Where to Start with Laurie Halse Anderson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Laurie Halse Anderson — how to approach Speak, her debut novel and landmark of YA literature about a ninth-grader rendered mute by an assault she cannot yet name, written in a fragmented first-person voice that mirrors trauma with precision. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Percival Everett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Percival Everett — whether to begin with James, Erasure, or The Trees. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Where to Start with Rina Kent: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rina Kent — whether to begin with Deviant King, Steel Princess, or God of Malice. A complete reading guide to the dark romance series author.
Where to Start with Samantha Harvey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Samantha Harvey — whether to begin with Orbital, The Western Wind, or Dear Thief. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning novelist.
Where to Start with Talia Hibbert: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Talia Hibbert — whether to begin with Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, or Act Your Age Eve Brown. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Family: Essential Reading List
The best books about family — from East of Eden and One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Corrections and Homegoing. Family novels that reveal how we are shaped by where we come from.
Best Books About Friendship: Essential Reading List
The best books about friendship — from A Little Life and The Kite Runner to My Brilliant Friend and Tuesdays with Morrie. Literature's most moving friendships.
Best Books About Identity: Essential Reading List
The best books about identity — from Invisible Man and Middlesex to Americanah and White Teeth. Literature on race, gender, culture, and who we are.
Best Books About Immigration: Essential Reading List
The best books about immigration — from Pachinko and The Namesake to Americanah and The Kite Runner. Literature on belonging, displacement, and the immigrant experience.
Best Books About Loneliness: Essential Reading List
The best books about loneliness — from Stoner and The Bell Jar to Eleanor Oliphant and Norwegian Wood. Literature that understands what it means to feel alone.
Best Books About Motherhood: Fiction and Memoir
The best books about motherhood — from We Need to Talk About Kevin and Beloved to Little Fires Everywhere and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Fiction and memoir.
Best Contemporary Literary Fiction: Essential Reading from the Last Decade
The best contemporary literary fiction — from Beautiful World Where Are You and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow to The Bee Sting and Intermezzo. Recent literary novels.
Best Contemporary Science Fiction: Essential Reading from the Past 20 Years
The best contemporary science fiction — from The Three-Body Problem and Annihilation to Piranesi and Children of Time. Essential recent sci-fi reading.
Best Dual Timeline Novels: Books That Move Between Two Periods
The best dual timeline novels — from Atonement to The Hours to Cloud Atlas. Books that move between two time periods to create meaning from the contrast between past and present.
Best Korean Literature: Essential Reading from South Korea
The best Korean literature — from The Vegetarian and Human Acts to Pachinko and The White Book. Essential contemporary and classic Korean fiction.
Best LGBTQ+ Fiction: Essential Novels and Stories
The best LGBTQ+ fiction — from Giovanni's Room and The Hours to A Little Life and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. Essential queer literature and gay fiction.
Best Literary Love Stories: Essential Reading List
The best literary love stories — from Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina to Normal People and Love in the Time of Cholera. Love stories that have literary ambition alongside emotional power.
Best Short Novels: Essential Reads Under 200 Pages
The best short novels — from The Stranger and Animal Farm to The Old Man and the Sea and Siddhartha. Great literature you can read in an afternoon.
Best Short Story Collections: Essential Reading List
The best short story collections ever written — from Dubliners and Nine Stories to Interpreter of Maladies and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
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