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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 Wandering, Chance, and American Identity
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 That Dissolve Identity and Form
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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