Topic
Twentieth Century
17 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
17 posts
Where to Start with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — whether to begin with The Little Prince, Night Flight, or Wind, Sand and Stars. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Boris Pasternak: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Boris Pasternak — whether to begin with Doctor Zhivago, My Sister Life, or Safe Conduct. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer.
Where to Start with D.H. Lawrence: A Reading Guide
Where to start with D.H. Lawrence — whether to begin with Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, or Lady Chatterley's Lover. A complete reading guide to the British modernist novelist.
Where to Start with Dale Carnegie: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dale Carnegie — whether to begin with How to Win Friends and Influence People or How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. A complete guide.
Where to Start with Elfriede Jelinek: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Elfriede Jelinek — whether to begin with The Piano Teacher, Wonderful Wonderful Times, or Lust. A complete guide to the Nobel laureate.
Where to Start with Halldór Laxness: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Halldór Laxness — whether to begin with Independent People, World Light, or Iceland's Bell. A complete guide to the Icelandic Nobel laureate.
Where to Start with Herta Müller: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Herta Müller — whether to begin with The Land of Green Plums, The Hunger Angel, or The Appointment. A complete reading guide to the Nobel Prize-winner.
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 Jack London: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jack London — whether to begin with The Call of the Wild, White Fang, or The Sea-Wolf. A complete reading guide to the American adventure novelist.
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 Jeffrey Archer: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jeffrey Archer — how to approach Kane and Abel, his most ambitious novel, a sweeping twentieth-century saga following two men born on the same day who rise from opposite ends of the world to a rivalry of consuming intensity. 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 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 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 Sinclair Lewis: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Sinclair Lewis — whether to begin with Main Street, Babbitt, or Elmer Gantry. A complete guide to the first American Nobel laureate.
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