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Identity
15 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
15 posts
Where to Start with Andre Agassi: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Andre Agassi — how to approach Open, his essential memoir about professional tennis and self-discovery. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Brit Bennett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Brit Bennett — whether to begin with The Vanishing Half or The Mothers. A complete reading guide to the American author.
Where to Start with Chanel Miller: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chanel Miller — how to approach Know My Name, her essential memoir about identity, assault, and survival. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Daniel Keyes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Keyes — how to approach Flowers for Algernon, his essential novel about intelligence, identity and what it means to be human. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Min Jin Lee: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Min Jin Lee — whether to begin with Pachinko or Free Food for Millionaires. A complete reading guide to the Korean-American novelist.
Where to Start with Tara Westover: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tara Westover — how to approach Educated, her essential memoir about self-transformation and the power of learning. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Trevor Noah: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Trevor Noah — how to approach Born a Crime, his essential memoir about growing up in apartheid South Africa. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Viola Davis: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Viola Davis — how to approach Finding Me, her essential memoir of poverty, trauma, shame, and extraordinary achievement. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About Home and Belonging: Novels of Place, Identity, and Return
The best novels about home and belonging — from Brooklyn to The Remains of the Day to Americanah. Books about place, identity, and what it means to belong somewhere.
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 Coming-of-Age Novels: Essential Reading List
The best coming-of-age novels — from The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower to Educated and The Kite Runner. Books that capture what it's like to become who you are.
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.
Books Like Moon Palace: 11 Novels of Chance
If Moon Palace captivated you with its picaresque account of a young man finding his place in America through accident and inheritance, these novels share its warmth, its scope, and its fascination with chance.
Books Like The New York Trilogy: 11 Novels
If Paul Auster's New York Trilogy left you unsettled and exhilarated by fiction that uses detective conventions to dismantle the self, these novels pursue the same unsettling questions.
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