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Where to Start with Herman Melville: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Herman Melville — whether to begin with Moby-Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener, or Billy Budd. A complete reading guide to the American classic author.
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 Homer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Homer — whether to begin with The Iliad or The Odyssey, and which translation to read. A complete reading guide to ancient Greece's great poet.
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 Ian Rankin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ian Rankin — whether to begin with Knots and Crosses or Black and Blue. A complete reading guide to the Scottish crime novelist.
Where to Start with Kishimi and Koga: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga — how to approach The Courage to Be Disliked, their Socratic dialogue introducing Adlerian psychology and the radical claim that happiness requires the courage to be disliked. 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 Ina Garten: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ina Garten — how to approach The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, her debut that established the philosophy of elegant, reliable home cooking that has defined her career. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Irma S. Rombauer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Irma S. Rombauer — how to approach The Joy of Cooking, the definitive American cooking reference she self-published in 1931 and which has never gone out of print. A complete reading guide.
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 Isabel Wilkerson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Isabel Wilkerson — whether to begin with The Warmth of Other Suns, Caste, or both. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Where to Start with J.D. Vance: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.D. Vance — how to approach Hillbilly Elegy, his essential memoir of Appalachian family and working-class decline. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.K. Rowling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.K. Rowling — how to approach the Harry Potter series, from the Sorcerer's Stone through the Deathly Hallows, and which book is the series at its best. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J. Kenji López-Alt: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J. Kenji López-Alt — how to approach The Food Lab, his landmark culinary science book that explains the science behind everyday cooking through hundreds of rigorously tested recipes. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jack London: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jack London — whether to begin with The Call of the Wild, White Fang, or The Sea-Wolf. A complete reading guide to the American adventure novelist.
Where to Start with Jack Schwager: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jack Schwager — how to approach Market Wizards, his landmark interview series with the greatest traders of the modern era. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James Allen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Allen — how to approach As a Man Thinketh, his 1903 sixty-eight-page masterwork on thought, character, and the mind as a garden that grows what you plant in it. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James Gleick: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Gleick — whether to begin with Chaos or The Information. A complete reading guide to the science journalist and author.
Where to Start with James Nestor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Nestor — how to approach Breath, his essential investigation into the science of how we breathe and why most of us do it wrong. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James S.A. Corey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James S.A. Corey — how to approach Leviathan Wakes, the first Expanse novel and the best entry point into the most politically sophisticated science fiction series of the century. A complete reading guide.
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