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Fiction
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Where to Start with Gabrielle Zevin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gabrielle Zevin — whether to begin with Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, or Young Jane Young. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kate Quinn: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kate Quinn — whether to begin with The Alice Network, The Huntress, or The Rose Code. A complete reading guide to the historical fiction novelist.
Where to Start with Liane Moriarty: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Liane Moriarty — whether to begin with Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers, or The Husband's Secret. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Mitch Albom: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mitch Albom — whether to begin with Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, or The Time Keeper. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ta-Nehisi Coates — whether to begin with Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, or The Water Dancer. A complete reading guide.
Best Books of 2025: The Year's Essential Reads
The books that defined 2025 — from record-breaking fantasy to the Pulitzer-winning James and late-2024 titles that dominated the reading conversation all year.
100 Books to Read Before You Die: The Essential Reading List
An editorial guide to the books that define a life of reading — from the untouchable classics to the nonfiction that reshapes how you see the world.
Best Books of 2024: Essential Fiction, Fantasy, and Nonfiction
The standout books published in 2024 — from Kristin Hannah and Sally Rooney to Brandon Sanderson and Han Kang. The year's best fiction, fantasy, romance, and nonfiction.
Bonnie Garmus Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
Bonnie Garmus has published one novel — Lessons in Chemistry. Reading guide for the Apple TV adaptation phenomenon and what to read next.
Delia Owens Books in Order: Complete Reading Guide
All Delia Owens books in order — her wildlife memoirs and Where the Crawdads Sing. What to read before and after her bestselling debut novel.
25 Best Summer Reading Books for 2026
The best summer reading for 2026: propulsive fiction, compulsive thrillers, sweeping historical novels, and lighter non-fiction that suits long days and short attention spans.
25 Best Books to Read in Your 40s
The best books for your 40s: on time, mortality, meaning, identity, and the particular freedoms and losses of midlife — with recommendations across fiction, memoir, and philosophy.
Where to Start with William Trevor: A Reading Guide
Where to start with William Trevor — how to approach The Story of Lucy Gault, his most celebrated novel following the sixty-year consequences of a child's survival being mistaken for death in 1921 Ireland, told in the most controlled prose of his career. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Euripides: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Euripides — how to approach Medea, his radical 431 BCE tragedy in which Jason's abandoned wife chooses infanticide as the ultimate revenge, featuring the first depiction of internal moral conflict in Western literature. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Nevil Shute: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nevil Shute — how to approach On the Beach, his 1957 novel following survivors in Melbourne as they wait for the radioactive cloud from a nuclear war to reach Australia, facing extinction with quiet, heartbreaking dignity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with E.M. Forster: A Reading Guide
Where to start with E.M. Forster — how to approach A Room with a View, his comedy of liberation following Lucy Honeychurch from Florence to Surrey as she chooses between authentic feeling and the performance that Edwardian society requires of her. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Geoffrey Chaucer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Geoffrey Chaucer — how to approach The Canterbury Tales, the foundational work of English literature in which pilgrims on the road to Canterbury tell stories that each reveal the teller, from the Knight's romance to the Wife of Bath's self-portrait. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Richard Russo: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Richard Russo — how to approach Empire Falls, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a man managing a diner in a dying Maine mill town, waiting for life to sort itself out while the town empties around him. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Nikolai Gogol: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nikolai Gogol — how to approach Dead Souls, the great comic novel of Russian literature following Chichikov's scheme to buy dead serfs as collateral through a gallery of provincial landowners who are each unforgettable. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Paul Murray: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paul Murray — how to approach The Bee Sting, his Booker-shortlisted novel of an Irish family in freefall told in four distinct voices, each revealing what the others cannot see, built on dark comedy and precise economic anxiety. A complete reading guide.
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