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Literary 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 Nadine Gordimer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nadine Gordimer — whether to begin with Burger's Daughter, July's People, or The Conservationist. A complete guide to the Nobel laureate.
Where to Start with Ocean Vuong: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ocean Vuong — how to approach On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, his debut novel written as a letter from a Vietnamese-American son to his illiterate mother. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ovid: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ovid — how to approach the Metamorphoses, the Roman poem that unified 250 myths around the theme of transformation and became the single most influential text on Western art and literature. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Percival Everett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Percival Everett — whether to begin with James, Erasure, or The Trees. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Where to Start with Peter Handke: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Handke — whether to begin with A Sorrow Beyond Dreams or The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Richard Yates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Richard Yates — whether to begin with Revolutionary Road or The Easter Parade. A complete reading guide to the American novelist.
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 Tayari Jones: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tayari Jones — how to approach An American Marriage, her devastating literary novel about what wrongful conviction does to a young Black couple's marriage and the people who love them. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Tim O'Brien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tim O'Brien — how to approach The Things They Carried, his essential masterwork on Vietnam, memory, and storytelling. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Tobias Wolff: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tobias Wolff — whether to begin with This Boy's Life, In Pharaoh's Army, or his short stories. A complete reading guide to the American memoirist.
Where to Start with Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Viet Thanh Nguyen — whether to begin with The Sympathizer, The Refugees, or The Committed. A complete reading guide to the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Where to Start with Virgil: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Virgil — how to approach The Aeneid, the epic that founded Rome's mythology and shaped Western literature for two thousand years. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Voltaire: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Voltaire — how to approach Candide, the perfect satirical novella that demolishes philosophical optimism. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with William Shakespeare: A Reading Guide
Where to start with William Shakespeare — how to approach Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and the rest of the canon. A complete reading guide for new and returning readers.
Where to Start with Yann Martel: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Yann Martel — whether to begin with Life of Pi or Beatrice and Virgil. A complete reading guide to the Canadian Booker Prize-winning author.
Alan Hollinghurst Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Alan Hollinghurst's complete bibliography in order — from The Swimming-Pool Library and The Line of Beauty to The Stranger's Child. Best starting points.
Alice Munro Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Alice Munro's complete bibliography in order — from Lives of Girls and Women and Dear Life to Too Much Happiness. Best starting points for the Nobel Prize winner.
Alice Walker Books in Order: Complete Bibliography & Best Starting Points
Alice Walker's complete bibliography in order — from The Color Purple and Meridian to Possessing the Secret of Joy. Best starting points for new readers.
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