Topic
Fiction
108 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
108 posts — page 1 of 6
Where to Start with Abdulrazak Gurnah: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Abdulrazak Gurnah — whether to begin with Paradise, By the Sea, or Afterlives. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Zanzibari novelist.
Where to Start with A.J. Finn: A Reading Guide
Where to start with A.J. Finn — how to approach The Woman in the Window, the Hitchcockian psychological thriller featuring an agoraphobic narrator. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Solzhenitsyn — whether to begin with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Gulag Archipelago, or The First Circle. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Aravind Adiga: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Aravind Adiga — whether to begin with The White Tiger, Last Man in Tower, or Amnesty. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning Indian novelist.
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 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 Boris Pasternak: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Boris Pasternak — whether to begin with Doctor Zhivago, My Sister Life, or Safe Conduct. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer.
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 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — how to approach Half of a Yellow Sun, her Booker Prize-winning novel of the Nigerian-Biafran War and its essential companions. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Christina Dalcher: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Christina Dalcher — how to approach Vox, her feminist dystopia about a near-future America where women are restricted to 100 words per day. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Christina Lauren: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Christina Lauren — how to approach The Unhoneymooners, their most perfectly premised enemies-to-lovers vacation romance. 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 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 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 Ernest Cline: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ernest Cline — how to approach Ready Player One, his propulsive science fiction adventure set in a virtual reality dystopia, saturated with 1980s pop culture and driven by a relentless treasure hunt plot. 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 Gene Wolfe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gene Wolfe — how to approach The Book of the New Sun, his dying-Earth masterwork with the most sophisticated unreliable narrator in science fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with George R.R. Martin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with George R.R. Martin — how to approach A Game of Thrones and the Song of Ice and Fire series, and which book is the high point of the sequence. A complete reading guide.
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