Topic
Historical Fiction
129 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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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 Abraham Verghese: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Abraham Verghese — whether to begin with Cutting for Stone or The Covenant of Water. A complete reading guide to the physician-novelist.
Where to Start with Alexandre Dumas: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Alexandre Dumas — whether to begin with The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Musketeers. A complete reading guide to the French adventure novelist.
Where to Start with Arthur Golden: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Arthur Golden — how to approach Memoirs of a Geisha, his essential novel about Japanese geisha culture. 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 Benjamín Labatut: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Benjamín Labatut — whether to begin with When We Cease to Understand the World or MANIAC. A complete reading guide to the Chilean author.
Where to Start with Bonnie Garmus: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Bonnie Garmus — how to approach Lessons in Chemistry, her debut novel about a chemist who becomes a cooking show host. 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 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 Eleanor Catton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Eleanor Catton — whether to begin with The Luminaries or Birnam Wood. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning New Zealand novelist.
Where to Start with Georgia Hunter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Georgia Hunter — how to approach We Were the Lucky Ones, her true-story novel about a Polish Jewish family scattered across four continents during the Second World War. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Halldór Laxness: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Halldór Laxness — whether to begin with Independent People, World Light, or Iceland's Bell. A complete guide to the Icelandic Nobel laureate.
Where to Start with Heather Morris: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heather Morris — whether to begin with The Tattooist of Auschwitz or Cilka's Journey. A complete reading guide to the New Zealand historical novelist.
Where to Start with Jeffrey Archer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jeffrey Archer — how to approach Kane and Abel, his most ambitious novel, a sweeping twentieth-century saga following two men born on the same day who rise from opposite ends of the world to a rivalry of consuming intensity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kelly Rimmer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kelly Rimmer — how to approach The Things We Cannot Say, her dual-timeline novel of Nazi-occupied Poland and the family secrets preserved by a grandmother's silence. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with L.M. Montgomery: A Reading Guide
Where to start with L.M. Montgomery — whether to begin with Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon, or Anne of Avonlea. A complete reading guide to the Canadian author.
Where to Start with Larry McMurtry: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Larry McMurtry — how to approach Lonesome Dove, his Pulitzer-winning masterpiece about a cattle drive, friendship, and the end of the American frontier. 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 Louisa May Alcott: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Louisa May Alcott — whether to begin with Little Women, Little Men, or Jo's Boys. A complete reading guide to the American classic author.
Where to Start with Mary Stewart: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Stewart — whether to begin with The Crystal Cave or The Hollow Hills. A complete reading guide to the British Arthurian novelist.
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