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Where to Start with S.E. Hinton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with S.E. Hinton — whether to begin with The Outsiders, That Was Then This Is Now, or Rumble Fish. A complete reading guide to the YA pioneer.
Where to Start with Sabaa Tahir: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sabaa Tahir — how to approach An Ember in the Ashes, her dark Roman-inspired fantasy debut following a Scholar girl and a soldier through a world of brutal occupation, impossible choices, and the question of what resistance costs. A complete reading guide.
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 Samantha Shannon: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Samantha Shannon — how to approach The Priory of the Orange Tree, her standalone epic fantasy building three distinct civilisations and their different relationships to dragons, faith, and historical truth. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Sharon Kay Penman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sharon Kay Penman — how to approach Here Be Dragons, her masterwork of medieval fiction following Joanna, daughter of King John of England, caught between loyalty to her father and love for her Welsh prince husband. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Stephen Chbosky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Stephen Chbosky — how to approach The Perks of Being a Wallflower, his essential coming-of-age novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Stephen Crane: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Stephen Crane — how to approach The Red Badge of Courage, his landmark psychological war novel written before he ever witnessed battle and still the most honest American war fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Stephen Fry: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Stephen Fry — how to approach his Troy, the essential retelling of the Trojan War from the master of accessible mythology. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with T.H. White: A Reading Guide
Where to start with T.H. White — how to approach The Once and Future King, his four-part retelling of the Arthurian legend from Merlin's backward-living education of young Arthur to the tragic collapse of Camelot. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Tayari Jones: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tayari Jones — how to approach An American Marriage, her devastating literary novel about what wrongful conviction does to a young Black couple's marriage and the people who love them. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's collaboration — Good Omens, the funniest fantasy novel ever written. A complete reading guide to their unique co-authored work.
Where to Start with Tim O'Brien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tim O'Brien — how to approach The Things They Carried, his essential masterwork on Vietnam, memory, and storytelling. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Travis Baldree: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Travis Baldree — how to approach Legends & Lattes, the cozy fantasy that named a genre: an orc mercenary retires from violence to open a coffee shop and discovers that building community is the harder, better work. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ursula K. Le Guin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ursula K. Le Guin — how to approach A Wizard of Earthsea and when to read The Left Hand of Darkness. A complete reading guide to one of fantasy's greatest writers.
Where to Start with Vernor Vinge: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Vernor Vinge — how to approach A Fire Upon the Deep, his Hugo Award-winning space opera built on one of science fiction's most original world-building concepts. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Viet Thanh Nguyen — whether to begin with The Sympathizer, The Refugees, or The Committed. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Where to Start with Voltaire: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Voltaire — how to approach Candide, the perfect satirical novella that demolishes philosophical optimism. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with William Shakespeare: A Reading Guide
Where to start with William Shakespeare — how to approach Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and the rest of the canon. A complete reading guide for new and returning readers.
Where to Start with Aldous Huxley: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Aldous Huxley — whether to begin with Brave New World, Island, or Point Counter Point. A complete reading guide to the English novelist and essayist.
Where to Start with Angie Thomas: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Angie Thomas — whether to begin with The Hate U Give, On the Come Up, or Concrete Rose. A complete reading guide to the YA author.
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