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22 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with C.S. Lewis: A Reading Guide
Where to start with C.S. Lewis — whether to begin with The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, or Mere Christianity. A complete reading guide to his essential works.
Where to Start with Cornelia Funke: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Cornelia Funke — how to approach Inkheart, her essential fantasy novel about the dangerous magic of books. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with David Gemmell: A Reading Guide
Where to start with David Gemmell — how to approach Legend, his debut novel and the founding text of heroic fantasy, about an aging warrior defending an impossible siege and what it means to face the end without despair. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Don Winslow: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Don Winslow — how to approach The Power of the Dog, his essential drug war trilogy opener. A complete reading guide to the American crime novelist.
Where to Start with Ernest Hemingway: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ernest Hemingway — how to approach The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms. A complete reading guide to the master of the iceberg style.
Where to Start with Franz Kafka: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Franz Kafka — how to approach The Metamorphosis and The Trial, and which to read first. A complete reading guide to the master of modern alienation.
Where to Start with Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Fyodor Dostoevsky — whether to begin with Crime and Punishment or The Brothers Karamazov, and how to approach his major works. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Gene Wolfe: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Gene Wolfe — how to approach The Book of the New Sun, his dying-Earth masterwork with the most sophisticated unreliable narrator in science fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with George R.R. Martin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with George R.R. Martin — how to approach A Game of Thrones and the Song of Ice and Fire series, and which book is the high point of the sequence. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with H.G. Wells: A Reading Guide
Where to start with H.G. Wells — how to approach The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and his other scientific romances. A complete reading guide to the father of science fiction.
Where to Start with Haruki Murakami: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Haruki Murakami — Norwegian Wood is the ideal entry point, Hard-Boiled Wonderland is his most ambitious novel, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is his masterpiece. How to navigate one of contemporary fiction's most essential catalogs. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Iain M. Banks: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Iain M. Banks — how to approach the Culture series, his post-scarcity space opera sequence, and The Wasp Factory, his non-SF literary novel. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.K. Rowling: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.K. Rowling — how to approach the Harry Potter series, from the Sorcerer's Stone through the Deathly Hallows, and which book is the series at its best. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with James S.A. Corey: A Reading Guide
Where to start with James S.A. Corey — how to approach Leviathan Wakes, the first Expanse novel and the best entry point into the most politically sophisticated science fiction series of the century. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with J.R.R. Tolkien: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.R.R. Tolkien — whether to begin with The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, and how to approach The Silmarillion. A complete reading guide.
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 Ursula K. Le Guin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ursula K. Le Guin — how to approach A Wizard of Earthsea and when to read The Left Hand of Darkness. A complete reading guide to one of fantasy's greatest writers.
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.
Best Epic Fantasy Series: Essential Reading List
The best epic fantasy series — from The Lord of the Rings and Malazan Book of the Fallen to The First Law and The Stormlight Archive. Fantasy series that reward long investment.
Best YA Fantasy Series & Trilogies: 12 Series Worth Every Page
The best young adult fantasy series ranked — from Throne of Glass to Six of Crows, The Hunger Games to Shadow and Bone. Start here if you want to fall completely into another world.
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