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4 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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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 Tim O'Brien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Tim O'Brien — whether to begin with The Things They Carried or Going After Cacciato. A complete reading guide to the essential Vietnam War novelist.
Books Like Don Quixote: Idealism, Illusion, and the Madness of Literature
Cervantes's knight errant who mistakes windmills for giants is the founding novel of Western literature — the first book about a man destroyed by too much reading, the first comic novel, and the most generous portrait of idealism ever written. These books share its playfulness, its depth, and its love.
Books Like The New York Trilogy: 11 Novels That Dissolve Identity and Form
If Paul Auster's New York Trilogy left you unsettled and exhilarated by fiction that uses detective conventions to dismantle the self, these novels pursue the same unsettling questions.
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