Reading Guides
Reading guides listed alphabetically by author.
A
- House of Bilqis
- Passarola Rising
- The Household Guide to Dying
- The Oresteia
- A Death in the Family
- A Border Passage
- The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
- Wandering Stars
- The Kitchen Boy
- Rasputin's Daughter
- The Romanov Bride
- The Divine Comedy Volume I: The Inferno
- Bastard Out of Carolina
- Cavedweller
- Wolves of the Crescent Moon
- Girls of Riyadh
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- In the Name of Salome
- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Something to Declare
- ¡Yo!
- Twisted
- Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved
- Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam
- Rashi's Daughters, Book III: Rachel
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Fire In Beulah
- The Mercy Seat
- The Kept Man
- The Melting Season
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Emma
- Northanger Abbey
- Mr. Vertigo
- The Teahouse Fire
- The Underdogs
B
- American Fuji
- The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri
- Cousin Bette
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- The Wonder Spot
- The Lost Years of Merlin Epic
- Annie Dunne
- A Long, Long Way
- The Secret Scripture
- The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
- The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle
- The Books of Joan Bauer
- The School of Essential Ingredients
- Dearest Dorothy Series
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
- Dear Zoe
- Expecting Adam
- The Adventures of Augie March
- Herzog
- Ravelstein
- Seize the Day
- Leaving Tangier
- The Last Friend
- This Blinding Absence of Light
- City of Thieves
- The City of Falling Angels
- Miss Harper Can Do It
- The Begotten & The Betrayed
- A Question of Freedom
- The Book of Fires
- After the Plague
- The Inner Circle
- A Friend of the Earth
- Riven Rock
- Talk Talk
- The Tortilla Curtain
- Water Music
- The Women
- Martha Washington
- The Widow's Season
- The 6th Lamentation
- Jane Eyre
- The Last Summer (of You and Me)
- The Fiction Class
- The Angel Maker
- March
- People of the Book
- Year of Wonders
- The Doctor's Wife
- Somebody Else's Daughter
- Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
- The Good Wife Strikes Back
- Consider the Lily
- Wives Behaving Badly
- The Master and Margarita
- The Secret Garden
C
- The Accident Man
- The Creator's Map
- The City of Your Final Destination
- The Inspector Montalbano Series
- The Terra-Cotta Dog
- What You Owe Me
- The Romance Readers' Book Club
- Five Skies
- The Signal
- Land of a Thousand Hills
- Interred with Their Bones
- The Speckled Monster
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Through the Looking-Glass
- The Tain
- High Points and Lows
- The Story of My Life
- My Antonia
- The Song of the Lark
- Because I Am Furniture
- The Rape of Nanking
- Hunger
- Motherland
- Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
- Burning Bright
- Girl With a Pearl Earring
- Falling Angels
- The Virgin Blue
- Round Robin
- The Runaway Quilt
- The Quilter's Legacy
- A Person of Interest
- A Place Called Canterbury
- Hold Tight
- The Wind River Mystery Series
- Age of Iron
- Diary of a Bad Year
- Disgrace
- Slow Man
- Summertime
- The Glimmer Palace
- The Moonstone
- The Woman in White
- Heart of Darkness
- Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
- The Red Badge of Courage
- The Magic of Ordinary Days
- The Night Journal
- Secret Daughter
- The Saffron Kitchen
- A Rip in Heaven
- Everything Matters!
- God Is Dead
D
- 15 Minutes of Shame
- The Farming of Bones
- The Divorce Party
- London Is the Best City in America
- The Cunning Man
- Fifth Business
- The Manticore
- World of Wonders
- The Pact
- Mistress of the Revolution
- Libra
- Chez Moi
- Dreamland
- Keeping the Moon
- That Summer
- The Truth About Forever
- Collapse
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- David Copperfield
- Great Expectations
- Little Dorrit
- City of God
- About Grace
- The Shell Collector
- Crime and Punishment
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- Blood Kin
- Oh, Play That Thing
- Paula Spencer
- A Star Called Henry
- The Woman Who Walked into Doors
- The Deportees and Other Stories
- Frida's Bed
- The Deadwood Beetle
- Free Agent
- Justine
E
- The Danish Girl
- How to Be Cool
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The Little Book
- The Wet Nurse's Tale
- The Turtle Warrior
- Bride Island
- Quaking
- Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
- The Garden of Ruth
- The Triumph of Deborah
- The Divide
- The Last Promise
- Blonde Roots
F
- Blood in the Sun
- From a Crooked Rib
- Gifts
- Knots
- Maps
- Secrets
- Links
- The Geographer's Library
- The Girls Who Went Away
- The Adventures of Thursday Next
- The Big Over Easy
- The Eyre Affair
- The Fourth Bear
- Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry
- The Pillars of the Earth
- World Without End
- Howards End
- A Room with a View
- Sister Noon
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- Wit's End
- No Man's Land
- The Liar's Diary
- Pawleys Island
- Sullivan's Island
- Isle of Palms
- Plantation
- Mistress of the Art of Death
- The Serpent's Tale
- In the Woods
- The Likeness
- Scribbling the Cat
- The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
- The Russian Concubine
G
- The Solitaire Mystery
- Carpenter's Gothic
- Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him
- Helen of Troy
- Mary, Called Magdalene
- C'est la Vie
- All the Sad Young Literary Men
- Sunset Song
- How to Buy a Love of Reading
- Committed
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Stern Men
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- Too Close to the Falls
- The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12
- Still Life with Chickens
- Winging It
- Four Queens
- The House Gun
- None to Accompany Me
- The Pickup
- The Beach House
- The Other Woman
- Second Chance
- Swapping Lives
- Looking for Alaska
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Idea of Perfection
- The Huge Book of Hell
- The Magicians
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov
H
- Dream Jungle
- The Dead Fathers Club
- Fall of Frost
- The Ten Best Days of My Life
- Little Face
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- The Observations
- Another Place at the Table
- Ladies with Options
- The Staggerford Flood
- Pig Island
- Across the Nightingale Floor
- Grass for His Pillow
- Do the Windows Open?
- Freddy and Fredericka
- Augusta Locke
- Losing the Moon
- Siddhartha
- Ursula, Under
- Get to Work
- Blue Diary
- The River King
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
- The Odyssey
- The Mistress's Daughter
- This Book Will Save Your Life
- High Fidelity
- How to Be Good
- Slam
- The Poisoning of an American High School
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Kite Runner
- The Silver Screen
- A Lover's Almanac
- Les Misérables
- Nowhere Else on Earth
- The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
- Memories of a Pure Spring
- The Crime Writer
- The Growing Seasons
I
J
- Comfort Food
- Friday Night Knitting Club
- Lucky Everyday
- Parasites Like Us
- Another Man's Moccasins
- The Cold Dish
- Death Without Company
- Kindness Goes Unpunished
- Books by Diane Johnson
- Lulu in Marrakech
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- And Sometimes Why
- The Ghost Map
- Fear of Flying
- Dubliners
K
- Home to Holly Springs
- The Mitford Years Series
- Cherry
- The Liars' Club
- Ysabel
- Liberty
- Fox Girl
- Someone Like You
- Without a Net
- The Flaming Corsage
- Ironweed
- Roscoe
- On the Road
- On the Road: The Original Scroll
- Dancing with Rose
- Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimers
- The Mermaid Chair
- The Secret Life of Bees
- La vida secreta de las abejas
- Catching Genius
- Matters of Faith
- Believe Me
- The Accidental Masterpiece
- The Autobiography of My Mother
- Redeemed
- Reading Judas
- The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I
- The Drawing of the Three: The Dark Tower II
- The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower III
- Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV
- Should You Leave?
- The Impressionist
- My Revolutions
- Transmission
- The Mascot
L
- Glover's Mistake
- Beach Day, Rainy Day, and Snow Day
- Blue Shoe
- Mr. Phillips
- Savvy
- Giraffe
- A Gesture Life
- Native Speaker
- Aloft
- China Boy
- The Piano Teacher
- Acqua Alta
- The Commissario Brunetti Series
- A Noble Radiance
- Uniform Justice
- A Hero of Our Time
- Betrayal
- The Suspect
- The Luckiest Girl in the World
- Inventing the Rest of Our Lives
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Strawberry Fields
- Consequences
- Making It Up
- The Photograph
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
- Author, Author
- Thinks...
- The Chess Machine
- The Soloist
- Scattershot
- Truth and Consequences
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
- House Of Daughters
- The How of Happiness
M
- Big Green Purse
- The Prince
- The Disappearing Girl
- City of Strangers
- Londonstani
- The Rice Mother
- Book of Murder
- The Arraignment
- Of Human Bondage
- The Communist Manifesto
- Mendel's Dwarf
- Mademoiselle Boleyn
- Benny & Shrimp
- The Color of Water
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Song Yet Sung
- Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
- Amongst Women
- Sugar
- This Bitter Earth
- Eye Contact
- Church of the Dog
- On the Divinity of Second Chances
- The Memory of Running
- Art in America
- Traveler
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short
- The Interruption of Everything
- Red Rover
- Moby-Dick
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- Death of a Salesman
- The Golden Road
- Amagansett
- The Savage Garden
- The Deep End of the Ocean
- Best Friends
- The Office of Desire
- Gracelin O'Malley
- Playing with the Enemy
- Fat Girl
- They Did It With Love
- A Hole in the Universe
- Songs in Ordinary Time
- Fiona Range
- The Ice Child
- The Gentle Axe
- A Vengeful Longing
- The Books of Toni Morrison
- Three Cups of Tea
- Labyrinth
- Sepulchre
- Left Bank
- Frida
- The Procedure
- The Unforgiving Minute
- The Rug Merchant
- Miles from Nowhere
- The Bell
- The Sea, The Sea
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
N
- The Women of Brewster Place
- Teach Me
- Revolutionary Suicide
- Petals of Blood
- Short Girls
- Stealing Buddha's Dinner
- Velva Jean Learns to Drive
- A Catch of Consequence
- The Sparks Fly Upward
- The Cloister Walk
- Lopsided.: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
O
- We Were the Mulvaneys
- Back Roads
- Coal Run
- My Dream of You
- Astrid and Veronika
- Sonata for Miriam
- Last Night at the Lobster
- Songs for the Missing
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- My Year of Meats
- All Over Creation
P
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Salt
- Reading Judas
- Sword and Blossom
- Armed Madhouse
- The Little Disturbances of Man
- Bleeding Kansas
- The Dream of Scipio
- An Instance of the Fingerpost
- A Long Way from Chicago
- A Year Down Yonder
- The Queen of the South
- Geographies of Home
- Confessions Of an Economic Hitman
- The Secret History of the American Empire
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- In the Heart of the Sea
- The Well and the Mine
- Picture Perfect
- Another Country
- The Last Days of Socrates
- The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food
- Chasing the Flame
- In The Memory of the Forest
- A Gift from Brittany
- Seductress
- Swann's Way
- Unpolished Gem
- Excellent Women
- The Godfather
R
- Atlas Shrugged
- Julie and Romeo
- Eat Cake
- My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
- Persian Girls
- Cordelia Underwood
- The Rapture of Canaan
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
- The Warrior
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
- Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
- Noli Me Tangere
- The Testament of Gideon Mack
- Dogged Pursuit
- Wolf Totem
- Just in Case
- What I Was
- Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
- An Ordinary Man
S
- Down Town
- Dark Fire
- Dissolution
- Sovereign
- Winter in Madrid
- Love Walked In
- Watermelon Nights
- Mayada, Daughter of Iraq
- Our Lady of the Lost and Found
- The Street of Crocodiles
- The End
- Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
- September Songs
- Basilica
- When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
- Caucasia
- The Bastard of Istanbul
- History Lesson for Girls
- Strangers in the House
- Frankenstein
- The Girl from Foreign
- Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- The Ruins of California
- Larry's Party
- The Stone Diaries
- The Tale of Genji
- The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
- Beside a Burning Sea
- Riding With The Queen
- Eating Heaven
- Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
- The Russian Debutante's Handbook
- Enthusiasm
- The House of Mondavi
- Ceremony
- Building a Home with my Husband
- Oil!
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task
- Prozac Diary
- Letters from Yellowstone
- The Book of Mormon
- On Beauty
- Galileo's Daughter
- Angle of Repose
- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
- East of Eden
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Las Uvas de la Ira, D Ratones y Hombres, y la Perla
- Of Mice and Men
- The Pearl
- The Red and the Black
- The Help
- Chang and Eng
- More Than It Hurts You
- Flower Children
- Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
T
- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Opposite of Fate
- The Huntsman
- King of King's County
- Vanity Fair
- Ice Land
- This Earth of Mankind
- A New Earth
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
- Death in Summer
- Felicia's Journey
- My House in Umbria
- The Story of Lucy Gault
- Two Lives
- Girl from the South
- Marrying the Mistress
- Other People's Children
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
U
V
- The Chalk Circle Man
- This Night's Foul Work
- Gods Go Begging
- Without a Backward Glance
- Gang Leader for a Day
- Miss Garnet's Angel
- Self-Made Man
- Voluntary Madness
- From Binge to Blackout
- Candide
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue
- Life Studies
- Luncheon of the Boating Party
- The Passion of Artemisia
- The Forest Lover
W
- Black, White, and Jewish
- Perfect Madness
- Fingersmith
- The Little Stranger
- Why Our Health Matters
- College Girl
- The Death of Jim Loney
- Winter in the Blood
- The Age of Innocence
- The House of Mirth
- A Boy's Own Story
- Fast Girls
- The Color of Light
- Voss and The Vivisector
- Dry Ice
- Leaves of Grass
- The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
- Our Nig
- Pharmakon
- Tending Roses
- The Language of Sycamores
- This Must Be the Place
- Maisie Dobbs
- The Ten-Year Nap
- Lottery
- The Books of Jacqueline Woodson
- Feathers
- The Wednesday Letters
Y
Z
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