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8 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Anne Frank: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Frank — how to approach The Diary of a Young Girl, the most widely read Holocaust document in history. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Arthur Golden: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Arthur Golden — how to approach Memoirs of a Geisha, his essential novel about Japanese geisha culture. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Heather Morris: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heather Morris — whether to begin with The Tattooist of Auschwitz or Cilka's Journey. A complete reading guide to the New Zealand historical novelist.
Where to Start with Kelly Rimmer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kelly Rimmer — how to approach The Things We Cannot Say, her dual-timeline novel of Nazi-occupied Poland and the family secrets preserved by a grandmother's silence. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Laura Hillenbrand: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Laura Hillenbrand — how to approach Unbroken, her essential account of Louis Zamperini's impossible survival story. A complete reading guide.
Books About France: Essential Reading for Every Visitor
The best books set in France — from Provence to Paris, from WWII to the Belle Époque. Fiction, memoir, and history for travellers and Francophiles.
Books About Greece: Essential Reading for Visitors and Hellenic Dreamers
The best books set in Greece — from Zorba's Crete to Corfu's wildlife, Kefalonia in wartime to Homer's Mediterranean. Fiction, memoir, and myth for travellers to Greece.
Best Historical Fiction Books of All Time: 20 Essential Reads
The best historical fiction does more than recreate the past — it makes it feel alive and urgent. These 20 novels span centuries and continents, from Tudor England to wartime Europe to colonial West Africa.
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