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British Literature
155 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Adrian Tchaikovsky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Adrian Tchaikovsky — whether to begin with Children of Time or Children of Ruin. A complete reading guide to the British science fiction author.
Where to Start with Anne Brontë: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Brontë — how to approach The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her essential and most radical novel. A complete reading guide to the youngest Brontë sister.
Where to Start with Arthur Koestler: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Arthur Koestler — how to approach Darkness at Noon, his essential novel about Stalinist show trials. A complete reading guide to the Hungarian-British author.
Where to Start with B.A. Paris: A Reading Guide
Where to start with B.A. Paris — how to approach Behind Closed Doors, her domestic thriller about a perfect marriage that is actually a prison. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Baroness Orczy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Baroness Orczy — how to approach The Scarlet Pimpernel, her essential adventure novel that invented the secret-identity hero. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Beryl Markham: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Beryl Markham — how to approach West with the Night, her essential memoir of Africa and aviation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Beth O'Leary: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Beth O'Leary — how to approach The Flatshare, her contemporary romance built on an inventive premise of two strangers who share a flat but never meet. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Bruce Chatwin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bruce Chatwin — how to approach In Patagonia, his essential travel memoir that reinvented the form. A complete reading guide to the British author.
Where to Start with C.S. Lewis: A Reading Guide
Where to start with C.S. Lewis — whether to begin with The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, or Mere Christianity. A complete reading guide to his essential works.
Where to Start with Charlotte Brontë: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Charlotte Brontë — whether to begin with Jane Eyre or Villette. A complete reading guide to the Victorian novelist.
Where to Start with Chris van Tulleken: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chris van Tulleken — how to approach Ultra-Processed People, his investigation into the science of ultra-processed food and its health effects. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Claire North: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Claire North — how to approach Ithaca, her feminist retelling of the Odyssey narrated by Hera as Penelope waits for Odysseus to return. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with D.H. Lawrence: A Reading Guide
Where to start with D.H. Lawrence — whether to begin with Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, or Lady Chatterley's Lover. A complete reading guide to the British modernist novelist.
Where to Start with Daniel Defoe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Defoe — how to approach Robinson Crusoe, his essential novel and the founding text of English prose fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Gemmell: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Gemmell — how to approach Legend, his debut novel and the founding text of heroic fantasy, about an aging warrior defending an impossible siege and what it means to face the end without despair. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Nicholls: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Nicholls — whether to begin with One Day, Starter for Ten, or Us. A complete reading guide to the British novelist.
Where to Start with Elizabeth Gaskell: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Elizabeth Gaskell — how to approach North and South, her Victorian novel combining industrial-era class conflict with one of the period's most satisfying slow-burn romances. A complete reading guide.
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 Ewan McGregor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ewan McGregor — how to approach Long Way Round, the adventure travel memoir he wrote with Charley Boorman about their 31,000-mile motorcycle journey eastward from London to New York through Europe, Central Asia, and the Americas. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Frances Hodgson Burnett — whether to begin with The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, or Little Lord Fauntleroy. A complete reading guide.
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