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The Housemaid Books in Order: Freida McFadden's Complete Series (2026)
Netflix's The Housemaid adaptation brought Freida McFadden to millions of new readers. Here's the complete reading order, what to expect, and which book to start with.
Where to Start with Nick Bilton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nick Bilton — how to approach Hatching Twitter, his reported account of how four founders created the platform and then betrayed each other fighting for control, dismantling the official founding mythology along the way. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Richard Russo: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Richard Russo — how to approach Empire Falls, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a man managing a diner in a dying Maine mill town, waiting for life to sort itself out while the town empties around him. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Nikolai Gogol: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nikolai Gogol — how to approach Dead Souls, the great comic novel of Russian literature following Chichikov's scheme to buy dead serfs as collateral through a gallery of provincial landowners who are each unforgettable. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Peter Bernstein: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Peter Bernstein — how to approach Against the Gods, his intellectual history of probability and risk from Pascal and Fermat through modern portfolio theory, arguing that mastering risk is the defining achievement of the modern world. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with MJ DeMarco: A Reading Guide
Where to start with MJ DeMarco — how to approach The Millionaire Fastlane, his contrarian argument that conventional frugality-plus-index-funds advice optimises for the wrong goal, and that scalable business ownership is the only realistic path to rapid wealth. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Paul Murray: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paul Murray — how to approach The Bee Sting, his Booker-shortlisted novel of an Irish family in freefall told in four distinct voices, each revealing what the others cannot see, built on dark comedy and precise economic anxiety. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jonathan Swift: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jonathan Swift — how to approach Gulliver's Travels, his 1726 satirical masterpiece sending Lemuel Gulliver to four extraordinary lands that each illuminate a different failure of humanity, culminating in one of literature's darkest endings. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Max Tegmark: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Max Tegmark — how to approach Life 3.0, his balanced and rigorous exploration of the possible futures of artificial intelligence and the choices humanity must make as AI approaches and surpasses human-level capability. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Joel Greenblatt: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joel Greenblatt — how to approach The Little Book That Still Beats the Market, his accessible guide to the Magic Formula — a systematic value investing strategy that ranks stocks by earnings yield and return on invested capital. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with William Kennedy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with William Kennedy — how to approach Ironweed, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Francis Phelan, a Depression-era Albany bum and former baseball player haunted by the dead he has left behind. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Joseph Murphy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joseph Murphy — how to approach The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, his 1963 New Thought classic presenting techniques for using visualization and affirmation to align conscious intent with unconscious belief and reshape outcomes. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Niall Ferguson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Niall Ferguson — how to approach The Ascent of Money, his financial history of the world tracing the evolution of credit, banking, bonds, stocks, and insurance from ancient Mesopotamia to the 2008 crisis. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ivan Turgenev: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ivan Turgenev — how to approach Fathers and Sons, his landmark 1862 novel introducing Bazarov the nihilist and capturing the conflict between Russia's romantic liberal generation and the radical scientific youth that would supplant them. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with John Fowles: A Reading Guide
Where to start with John Fowles — how to approach The Magus, his hypnotic psychological novel about a young Englishman on a Greek island drawn into an elaborate game of deception staged by the enigmatic Maurice Conchis. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gay Hendricks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gay Hendricks — how to approach The Big Leap, his framework identifying the Upper Limit Problem — the unconscious self-sabotage that caps success — and the path from the Zone of Excellence to the Zone of Genius. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Max Lugavere: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Max Lugavere — how to approach Genius Foods, his research-based guide identifying the ten foods that most protect brain health and cognitive function, informed by watching his mother's Lewy body dementia diagnosis. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Burton Malkiel: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Burton Malkiel — how to approach A Random Walk Down Wall Street, his landmark investment guide arguing that passive index fund investing beats active stock picking over the long term. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Geoff Smart and Randy Street: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Geoff Smart and Randy Street — how to approach Who, their research-backed hiring system using scorecards and structured interviews to eliminate gut-feel decisions and dramatically reduce mis-hires. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Andrew Tobias: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Andrew Tobias — how to approach The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, his witty and perennially updated personal finance classic covering spending, saving, insurance, and index fund investing with unusual clarity. A complete reading guide.
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