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Historical Fiction
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Where to Start with Min Jin Lee: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Min Jin Lee — whether to begin with Pachinko or Free Food for Millionaires. A complete reading guide to the Korean-American novelist.
Where to Start with Mo Yan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mo Yan — whether to begin with Red Sorghum, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, or The Republic of Wine. A complete guide to the Chinese Nobel laureate.
Where to Start with Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nathaniel Hawthorne — whether to begin with The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, or Twice-Told Tales. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Noah Gordon: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Noah Gordon — how to approach The Physician, his sweeping medieval epic following an English orphan's extraordinary journey to study medicine under Avicenna in Persia. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Paullina Simons: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paullina Simons — how to approach The Bronze Horseman, her epic WWII romance set during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Samantha Harvey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Samantha Harvey — whether to begin with Orbital, The Western Wind, or Dear Thief. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning novelist.
Where to Start with Sharon Kay Penman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sharon Kay Penman — how to approach Here Be Dragons, her masterwork of medieval fiction following Joanna, daughter of King John of England, caught between loyalty to her father and love for her Welsh prince husband. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Silvia Moreno-Garcia: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Silvia Moreno-Garcia — whether to begin with Mexican Gothic or Gods of Jade and Shadow. A complete reading guide to the Mexican fantasy novelist.
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.
Amor Towles Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Amor Towles's complete bibliography in order — from A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility to The Lincoln Highway. Best starting points for new readers.
Best Australian Literature: Essential Novels from Australia
The best Australian literature — from Patrick White's Voss to Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar and Lucinda. Essential novels from Australia.
Best Books About the Holocaust: Essential Reading List
The best books about the Holocaust — memoirs, novels, and history that bear witness honestly. From The Diary of a Young Girl and Night to Maus and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Best Books About War: Essential Reading List
The best books about war — from All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch-22 to The Things They Carried and Slaughterhouse-Five. War literature's most essential works.
Best Books About World War II: Fiction, Non-Fiction & Memoirs
The best World War II books across fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and military history — from The Diary of a Young Girl and All the Light We Cannot See to Antony Beevor's Stalingrad and Band of Brothers.
Best Books Set in Russia: Essential Russian Fiction and Nonfiction
The best books set in Russia — from Anna Karenina and The Master and Margarita to A Gentleman in Moscow and The Gulag Archipelago. Essential Russian literature.
Best Canadian Literature: Essential Novels from Canada
The best Canadian literature — from Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace to Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Yann Martel's Life of Pi. Essential Canadian novels.
Best Classic Novels About Women: The Essential Reading List
The best classic novels about women — from Middlemarch to Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary, and The House of Mirth. Novels that defined female experience in literature.
Best Dual Timeline Novels: Books That Move Between Two Periods
The best dual timeline novels — from Atonement to The Hours to Cloud Atlas. Books that move between two time periods to create meaning from the contrast between past and present.
Best Gothic Novels: The Essential Reading List
The best gothic novels from Frankenstein and Dracula to Rebecca, Mexican Gothic, and The Picture of Dorian Gray — where atmosphere, dread, and the past's refusal to stay buried define the genre.
Best Holocaust Books: Essential Reading on the Shoah
The best Holocaust books — from Night and Man's Search for Meaning to The Diary of a Young Girl, The Book Thief, and Fatelessness. Essential reading on the Shoah.
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