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59 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Adam Smith: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Adam Smith — how to approach The Wealth of Nations, the foundational text of modern economics. A complete reading guide to the Scottish economist.
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 Andrew Ross Sorkin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Andrew Ross Sorkin — how to approach Too Big to Fail, his definitive account of the 2008 financial crisis. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Chris Miller: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chris Miller — how to approach Chip War, his history of semiconductors as the defining strategic resource of the twenty-first century. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Acemoglu and Robinson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson — how to approach Why Nations Fail, their landmark argument that inclusive institutions, not geography or culture, determine whether nations prosper or fail. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Graeber and David Wengrow: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Graeber and David Wengrow — how to approach The Dawn of Everything, their revisionist history of human social organisation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Doris Kearns Goodwin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Doris Kearns Goodwin — whether to begin with Team of Rivals, No Ordinary Time, or Leadership. A complete reading guide to the presidential biographer.
Where to Start with Elie Wiesel: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Elie Wiesel — how to approach Night, his essential Holocaust memoir. A complete reading guide to the Romanian-American Nobel laureate's work.
Where to Start with Che Guevara: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Che Guevara — how to approach The Motorcycle Diaries, his posthumously published journal of the 1952 journey through South America that transformed a young medical student into the figure history would make of him. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Heinrich Harrer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Heinrich Harrer — how to approach Seven Years in Tibet, his extraordinary account of escaping a wartime POW camp and reaching Lhasa to become the Dalai Lama's tutor. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Isabel Wilkerson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Isabel Wilkerson — whether to begin with The Warmth of Other Suns, Caste, or both. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Where to Start with Kai Bird: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kai Bird — how to approach American Prometheus, the Pulitzer-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer co-written with Martin Sherwin. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Laura Hillenbrand: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Laura Hillenbrand — how to approach Unbroken, her essential account of Louis Zamperini's impossible survival story. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Malcolm X: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Malcolm X — how to approach The Autobiography of Malcolm X, one of the most powerful American autobiographies ever written. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Margot Lee Shetterly: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Margot Lee Shetterly — how to approach Hidden Figures, her history of the Black female mathematicians whose calculations helped launch America into space. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Mary Beard: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Beard — how to approach SPQR, her comprehensive and revisionist history of ancient Rome that asks the questions about Roman identity and citizenship that still resonate today. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michelle Alexander: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Alexander — how to approach The New Jim Crow, her essential book on mass incarceration and racial caste. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Nelson Mandela: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nelson Mandela — how to approach Long Walk to Freedom, his autobiography tracing a Transkei childhood through 27 years of imprisonment to liberation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Patrick Radden Keefe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Patrick Radden Keefe — whether to begin with Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, or Rogues. A complete reading guide to the narrative non-fiction journalist.
Where to Start with Peter Frankopan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Frankopan — how to approach The Silk Roads, his sweeping revisionist history that reorients world civilisation away from Europe and toward the trade routes linking East and West. A complete reading guide.
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