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Where to Start with Georgia Hunter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Georgia Hunter — how to approach We Were the Lucky Ones, her true-story novel about a Polish Jewish family scattered across four continents during the Second World War. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Guy Gavriel Kay: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Guy Gavriel Kay — how to approach Tigana, his standalone epic fantasy about colonial erasure and cultural memory, written with the prose precision of literary fiction. 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 Haruki Murakami: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Haruki Murakami — Norwegian Wood is the ideal entry point, Hard-Boiled Wonderland is his most ambitious novel, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is his masterpiece. How to navigate one of contemporary fiction's most essential catalogs. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Herta Müller: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Herta Müller — whether to begin with The Land of Green Plums, The Hunger Angel, or The Appointment. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winner.
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 Imre Kertész: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Imre Kertész — whether to begin with Fatelessness, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, or Fiasco. A complete guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust author.
Where to Start with Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Isaac Bashevis Singer — whether to begin with Gimpel the Fool, The Family Moskat, or The Magician of Lublin. 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 S.A. Corey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James S.A. Corey — how to approach Leviathan Wakes, the first Expanse novel and the best entry point into the most politically sophisticated science fiction series of the century. 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 Jennifer Egan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jennifer Egan — how to approach A Visit from the Goon Squad, her Pulitzer Prize-winning formally inventive book about time, music, and what passes. A complete reading guide.
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 John Williams: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Williams — how to approach Stoner, his rediscovered masterpiece about an ordinary English professor's quiet life that becomes a meditation on what makes life worth living. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jon Fosse: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jon Fosse — whether to begin with Morning and Evening, Septology, or A Shining. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist.
Where to Start with Joyce Carol Oates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joyce Carol Oates — whether to begin with We Were the Mulvaneys, them, or Blonde. A complete reading guide to the American literary novelist.
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 Junot Díaz: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Junot Díaz — whether to begin with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown, or This Is How You Lose Her. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Katherine Addison: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Katherine Addison — how to approach The Goblin Emperor, her quietly radical fantasy about an unprepared emperor who governs with kindness rather than cunning. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kelly Rimmer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kelly Rimmer — how to approach The Things We Cannot Say, her dual-timeline novel of Nazi-occupied Poland and the family secrets preserved by a grandmother's silence. A complete reading guide.
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