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Literary Fiction
431 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 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 Alice Sebold: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Alice Sebold — how to approach The Lovely Bones, her essential debut novel narrated from heaven. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Anna Burns: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anna Burns — whether to begin with Milkman or No Bones. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning Northern Irish novelist.
Where to Start with Anne Brontë: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Anne Brontë — how to approach The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, her essential and most radical novel. A complete reading guide to the youngest Brontë sister.
Where to Start with Annie Proulx: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Annie Proulx — how to approach The Shipping News, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A complete reading guide to the American author.
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 Arkady Strugatsky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Arkady Strugatsky — how to approach Roadside Picnic, the Soviet SF classic written with Boris Strugatsky. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Arthur Koestler: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Arthur Koestler — how to approach Darkness at Noon, his essential novel about Stalinist show trials. A complete reading guide to the Hungarian-British author.
Where to Start with Audrey Niffenegger: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Audrey Niffenegger — whether to begin with The Time Traveler's Wife or Her Fearful Symmetry. A complete reading guide to the American author.
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 Brit Bennett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Brit Bennett — whether to begin with The Vanishing Half or The Mothers. A complete reading guide to the American author.
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 Chuck Palahniuk: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chuck Palahniuk — how to approach Fight Club, his essential debut novel about masculinity and late capitalism. 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 Daniel Defoe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Defoe — how to approach Robinson Crusoe, his essential novel and the founding text of English prose fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Daniel Keyes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Daniel Keyes — how to approach Flowers for Algernon, his essential novel about intelligence, identity and what it means to be human. A complete reading guide.
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