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Literary Fiction
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Where to Start with Imre Kertész: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Imre Kertész — whether to begin with Fatelessness, Kaddish for an Unborn Child, or Fiasco. A complete guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Holocaust author.
Where to Start with Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Isaac Bashevis Singer — whether to begin with Gimpel the Fool, The Family Moskat, or The Magician of Lublin. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James Salter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James Salter — whether to begin with A Sport and a Pastime or Light Years. A complete reading guide to the American writer's essential novels.
Where to Start with J.D. Salinger: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.D. Salinger — whether to begin with The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, or Nine Stories. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jennifer Egan: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jennifer Egan — how to approach A Visit from the Goon Squad, her Pulitzer Prize-winning formally inventive book about time, music, and what passes. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with John Milton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Milton — how to approach Paradise Lost, the greatest English epic, written blind from memory and dictation, about Satan's fall and the expulsion from Eden. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with John Williams: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Williams — how to approach Stoner, his rediscovered masterpiece about an ordinary English professor's quiet life that becomes a meditation on what makes life worth living. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jon Fosse: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jon Fosse — whether to begin with Morning and Evening, Septology, or A Shining. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist.
Where to Start with Jonathan Lethem: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jonathan Lethem — whether to begin with Motherless Brooklyn or The Fortress of Solitude. A complete reading guide to the American novelist.
Where to Start with Joyce Carol Oates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joyce Carol Oates — whether to begin with We Were the Mulvaneys, them, or Blonde. A complete reading guide to the American literary novelist.
Where to Start with Junot Díaz: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Junot Díaz — whether to begin with The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Drown, or This Is How You Lose Her. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ken Kesey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ken Kesey — how to approach One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his countercultural masterpiece about institutional power and the definition of sanity. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kenzaburō Ōe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kenzaburō Ōe — whether to begin with A Personal Matter, Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids, or The Silent Cry. A complete reading guide.
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 Lauren Oliver: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lauren Oliver — whether to begin with Before I Fall, Delirium, or Pandemonium. A complete reading guide to the YA novelist.
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 Lev Grossman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Lev Grossman — whether to begin with The Magicians or The Magician King. A complete reading guide to the fantasy novelist and literary critic.
Where to Start with Marcel Proust: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Marcel Proust — whether to begin with Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, or The Guermantes Way. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Marlon James: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Marlon James — whether to begin with A Brief History of Seven Killings, Black Leopard Red Wolf, or Moon Witch Spider King. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Miguel de Cervantes: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Miguel de Cervantes — how to approach Don Quixote, the first modern novel and the founding text of the Western literary tradition. A complete reading guide.
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