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Where to Start with Ken Kesey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ken Kesey — how to approach One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his countercultural masterpiece about institutional power and the definition of sanity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kenzaburō Ōe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kenzaburō Ōe — whether to begin with A Personal Matter, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, or The Silent Cry. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Larry McMurtry: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Larry McMurtry — how to approach Lonesome Dove, his Pulitzer-winning masterpiece about a cattle drive, friendship, and the end of the American frontier. A complete reading guide.
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 Leo Tolstoy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Leo Tolstoy — whether to begin with Anna Karenina, War and Peace, or The Death of Ivan Ilyich. A complete reading guide for the essential Russian novelist.
Where to Start with Marlon James: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Marlon James — whether to begin with A Brief History of Seven Killings, Black Leopard Red Wolf, or Moon Witch Spider King. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Miguel de Cervantes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Miguel de Cervantes — how to approach Don Quixote, the first modern novel and the founding text of the Western literary tradition. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with M.L. Wang: A Reading Guide
Where to start with M.L. Wang — how to approach The Sword of Kaigen, her acclaimed self-published fantasy about a warrior's wife confronting lies about family, nation, and identity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Noah Gordon: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Noah Gordon — how to approach The Physician, his sweeping medieval epic following an English orphan's extraordinary journey to study medicine under Avicenna in Persia. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Norton Juster: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Norton Juster — how to approach The Phantom Tollbooth, his 1961 classic in which a bored boy discovers a magical kingdom built entirely from words and numbers. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ocean Vuong: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ocean Vuong — how to approach On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, his debut novel written as a letter from a Vietnamese-American son to his illiterate mother. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ovid: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ovid — how to approach the Metamorphoses, the Roman poem that unified 250 myths around the theme of transformation and became the single most influential text on Western art and literature. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Paullina Simons: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paullina Simons — how to approach The Bronze Horseman, her epic WWII romance set during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad. 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 Peter Watts: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Watts — how to approach Blindsight, his landmark hard SF novel that uses a first-contact scenario to question whether consciousness itself is an evolutionary advantage. 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 Raymond Chandler: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Raymond Chandler — how to approach The Big Sleep, his essential hardboiled crime novel and Philip Marlowe's debut. 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.
Where to Start with Rudyard Kipling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rudyard Kipling — how to approach The Jungle Book, his Victorian classic of jungle adventure and belonging that is far richer than its Disney adaptations suggest. A complete reading guide.
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