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Literary Fiction
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Where to Start with Emily Brontë: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Emily Brontë — how to approach Wuthering Heights, her essential and only novel. A complete reading guide to the Victorian author.
Where to Start with Erin Morgenstern: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Erin Morgenstern — whether to begin with The Night Circus or The Starless Sea. A complete reading guide to the fantasy author.
Where to Start with Ernest Hemingway: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ernest Hemingway — how to approach The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms. A complete reading guide to the master of the iceberg style.
Where to Start with Franz Kafka: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Franz Kafka — how to approach The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and which to read first. A complete reading guide to the master of modern alienation.
Where to Start with Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Fyodor Dostoevsky — whether to begin with Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov, and how to approach his major works. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gail Honeyman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gail Honeyman — how to approach Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, her essential debut novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gregory Maguire: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gregory Maguire — whether to begin with Wicked, Son of a Witch, or Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Halldór Laxness: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Halldór Laxness — whether to begin with Independent People, World Light, or Iceland's Bell. A complete guide to the Icelandic Nobel laureate.
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 James Salter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Salter — whether to begin with A Sport and a Pastime or Light Years. A complete reading guide to the American writer's essential novels.
Where to Start with J.D. Salinger: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.D. Salinger — whether to begin with The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, or Nine Stories. 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 Jonathan Lethem: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jonathan Lethem — whether to begin with Motherless Brooklyn or The Fortress of Solitude. A complete reading guide to the American novelist.
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