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Classics
82 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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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 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 Daniel Keyes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Keyes — how to approach Flowers for Algernon, his essential novel about intelligence, identity and what it means to be human. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Dashiell Hammett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dashiell Hammett — how to approach The Maltese Falcon, his essential novel and the founding text of hardboiled crime fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Edwin Lefèvre: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Edwin Lefèvre — how to approach Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, the 1923 trading classic on Jesse Livermore's career, markets, and the psychology of speculation. A complete reading guide.
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 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 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 Jules Verne: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jules Verne — whether to begin with Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues, or Journey to the Center of the Earth. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Kahlil Gibran: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kahlil Gibran — how to approach The Prophet, his essential collection of prose poems on the nature of life. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ken Kesey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ken Kesey — how to approach One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his countercultural masterpiece about institutional power and the definition of sanity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Marcus Aurelius: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Marcus Aurelius — how to approach Meditations, his private philosophical notebook and the most intimate document from the ancient world. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Raymond Chandler: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Raymond Chandler — how to approach The Big Sleep, his essential hardboiled crime novel and Philip Marlowe's debut. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with René Descartes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with René Descartes — how to approach Discourse on the Method, the founding document of modern philosophy. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Stephen Fry: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Stephen Fry — how to approach his Troy, the essential retelling of the Trojan War from the master of accessible mythology. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Sun Tzu: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sun Tzu — how to approach The Art of War, the ancient strategy classic applied to business, negotiation, and competitive life. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Virgil: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Virgil — how to approach The Aeneid, the epic that founded Rome's mythology and shaped Western literature for two thousand years. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Voltaire: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Voltaire — how to approach Candide, the perfect satirical novella that demolishes philosophical optimism. A complete reading guide.
Best American Novels: The Great American Novel Reading List
The best American novels — from Moby-Dick and The Great Gatsby to Beloved and Blood Meridian. The essential canon of American fiction from the 19th century to today.
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