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23 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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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 Dale Carnegie: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dale Carnegie — whether to begin with How to Win Friends and Influence People or How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. A complete guide.
Where to Start with David J. Schwartz: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David J. Schwartz — how to approach The Magic of Thinking Big, his 1959 self-help classic arguing that the size of your success is determined not by talent but by the size of your thinking habits. A complete reading guide.
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 George S. Clason: A Reading Guide
Where to start with George S. Clason — how to approach The Richest Man in Babylon, the classic personal finance parables that have remained in print since 1926. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with H.G. Wells: A Reading Guide
Where to start with H.G. Wells — how to approach The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and his other scientific romances. A complete reading guide to the father of science fiction.
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 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 J.R.R. Tolkien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.R.R. Tolkien — whether to begin with The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, and how to approach The Silmarillion. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Julia Child: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Julia Child — how to approach Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the landmark cookbook that taught a generation of Americans classical French technique. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Leo Tolstoy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Leo Tolstoy — whether to begin with Anna Karenina, War and Peace, or The Death of Ivan Ilyich. A complete reading guide for the essential Russian novelist.
Where to Start with Michel de Montaigne: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michel de Montaigne — how to approach The Complete Essays, the collection that invented the essay form and remains the foundation of all first-person reflection in Western literature. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Miguel de Cervantes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Miguel de Cervantes — how to approach Don Quixote, the first modern novel and the founding text of the Western literary tradition. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Norton Juster: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Norton Juster — how to approach The Phantom Tollbooth, his 1961 classic in which a bored boy discovers a magical kingdom built entirely from words and numbers. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ovid: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ovid — how to approach the Metamorphoses, the Roman poem that unified 250 myths around the theme of transformation and became the single most influential text on Western art and literature. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Robert Kiyosaki: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Robert Kiyosaki — how to approach Rich Dad Poor Dad, his paradigm-shifting reframe of assets, liabilities, and financial literacy that has changed how millions of people think about money. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rudyard Kipling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rudyard Kipling — how to approach The Jungle Book, his Victorian classic of jungle adventure and belonging that is far richer than its Disney adaptations suggest. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Stephen Crane: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Stephen Crane — how to approach The Red Badge of Courage, his landmark psychological war novel written before he ever witnessed battle and still the most honest American war fiction. A complete reading guide.
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