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
- The Wandering Falcon
- A Border Passage
- South of Superior
- The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
- Death of a Hero
- Wandering Stars
- The Kitchen Boy
- Rasputin's Daughter
- The Romanov Bride
- The Darlings
- The Divine Comedy Volume I: The Inferno
- Bastard Out of Carolina
- Cavedweller
- Wolves of the Crescent Moon
- Girls of Riyadh
- Island of Wings
- How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
- In the Name of Salome
- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Something to Declare
- ¡Yo!
- The Discovery of America by the Turks
- What the Family Needed
- Twisted
- Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved
- Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam
- Rashi's Daughters, Book III: Rachel
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Rav Hisda’s Daughter
- Fire In Beulah
- The Mercy Seat
- The Kept Man
- The Melting Season
- Hope: A Tragedy
- Emma
- Northanger Abbey
- Persuasion
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Mr. Vertigo
- No One is Here Except All of Us
- Swimming to Elba
- The Teahouse Fire
- The Last Nude
- The Underdogs
B
- American Fuji
- The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri
- The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
- Cousin Bette
- Haunting Jasmine
- 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
- On Canaan’s Side
- Everything Was Good-bye
- The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle
- The Books of Joan Bauer
- Joy for Beginners
- The School of Essential Ingredients
- The Lost Art of Mixing
- Dearest Dorothy Series
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
- Dear Zoe
- Expecting Adam
- The Hiding Place
- The Adventures of Augie March
- Herzog
- Ravelstein
- Seize the Day
- Leaving Tangier
- The Last Friend
- A Palace in the Old Village
- 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 Postmistress
- The House of Tomorrow
- The Book of Fires
- Lies of the Heart
- After the Plague
- The Inner Circle
- A Friend of the Earth
- Riven Rock
- Talk Talk
- The Tortilla Curtain
- Water Music
- When the Killing's Done
- The Women
- The Wisdom of Hair
- Shadow on the Crown
- Martha Washington
- The Last Summer (of You and Me)
- My Name is Memory
- The Fiction Class
- The Angel Maker
- Her Sister's Shadow
- The Widow's Season
- The 6th Lamentation
- Agnes Grey
- Jane Eyre
- Caleb's Crossing
- March
- People of the Book
- Year of Wonders
- Weird Sisters
- Slow Love
- 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 Painted Girls
- The Master and Margarita
- Dead End Gene Pool
- The Secret Garden
- Keeping the Feast
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
- The Spy Who Jumped Off The Screen
- Five Skies
- The Signal
- Land of a Thousand Hills
- Haunt Me Still
- 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
- Farishta
- The Royal Wulff Murders
- Because I Am Furniture
- The Rape of Nanking
- Hunger
- Motherland
- Mary Chesnut's Diary
- Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
- Burning Bright
- Falling Angels
- Girl With a Pearl Earring
- Remarkable Creatures
- The Virgin Blue
- Round Robin
- The Runaway Quilt
- The Quilter's Legacy
- The Union Quilters
- The Wedding Quilt
- The Giving Quilt
- A Person of Interest
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Forgotten Country
- 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
- What I Thought I Knew
- 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
- The Creation of Eve
- Reign of Madness
- A Rip in Heaven
- Everything Matters!
- God Is Dead
D
- 15 Minutes of Shame
- Slow Dancing on Price's Pier
- The Farming of Bones
- An African Affair
- Fiction Ruined My Family
- The Book of Jonas
- The Divorce Party
- The First Husband
- London Is the Best City in America
- The Cunning Man
- Fifth Business
- The Manticore
- World of Wonders
- The Pact
- The Old Romantic
- Mistress of the Revolution
- Libra
- A Jane Austen Education
- Chez Moi
- Dreamland
- Keeping the Moon
- That Summer
- The Truth About Forever
- Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
- Collapse
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- David Copperfield
- A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club)
- Great Expectations
- Little Dorrit
- Tempted by Trouble
- How to Be an American Housewife
- The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns
- City of God
- About Grace
- The Shell Collector
- Work Song
- Astonished
- 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
- Every Day, Every Hour
- Frida's Bed
- The Deadwood Beetle
- Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
- The Purple Shroud
- Free Agent
- Justine
- When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
E
- The Danish Girl
- The Widows Daughter
- How to Be Cool
- Lake Of Dreams
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The Little Book
- The Wet Nurse's Tale
- The Turtle Warrior
- Bride Island
- The Lion is in
- The Butterflies of Grand Canyon
- 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
- You Know When the Men Are Gone
- Blood in the Sun
- From a Crooked Rib
- Gifts
- Knots
- Maps
- Secrets
- Links
- Crossbones
- The Geographer's Library
- Deep Down True
- A Thread of Sky
- The Girls Who Went Away
- The Adventures of Thursday Next
- The Big Over Easy
- The Eyre Affair
- The Fourth Bear
- Shades of Grey
- Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Dreaming In English
- Madame Bovary
- The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry
- City of Dark Magic
- Fall of Giants
- 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
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- No Man's Land
- The Liar's Diary
- Pawleys Island
- Sullivan's Island
- Isle of Palms
- Plantation
- Grave Goods
- Mistress of the Art of Death
- The Serpent's Tale
- Blue Monday
- Midnight in Peking
- In the Woods
- The Likeness
- Broken Harbor
- 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
- Tough & Go
- Blood of the Prodigal
- A Good American
- Helen of Troy
- Mary, Called Magdalene
- Elizabeth I
- C'est la Vie
- All the Sad Young Literary Men
- The Beauty of Humanity Movement
- Sunset Song
- How to Buy a Love of Reading
- Committed
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Stern Men
- Too Close to the Falls
- After the Falls
- From the Memoirs of a Non–Enemy Combatant
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12
- Still Life with Chickens
- Winging It
- The Singles
- Four Queens
- Man Up
- The House Gun
- None to Accompany Me
- The Pickup
- The Company You Keep
- Marry Him
- The Beach House
- Dune Road
- The Other Woman
- Second Chance
- Swapping Lives
- Promises to Keep
- Looking for Alaska
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Confidant
- The Idea of Perfection
- The Huge Book of Hell
- The Magicians
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov
- The Line
H
- Dream Jungle
- The Dead Fathers Club
- Fall of Frost
- The Ten Best Days of My Life
- Journal of a UFO Investigator
- The Underside of Joy
- Moth Smoke
- How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- Little Face
- Truth Teller's Lie
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Discovery of Witches
- Shadow of Night
- Alice Bliss
- The Observations
- Peaches for Father Francis
- 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?
- The Heights
- Freddy and Fredericka
- Augusta Locke
- Wine to Water
- The Junior Officers Reading Club
- The World in Half
- Losing the Moon
- Siddhartha
- Thoughts Without Cigarettes
- Ursula, Under
- The Honey Thief
- Get to Work
- 22 Britannia Road
- Blue Diary
- The River King
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
- Looking for Me
- The Secret Eleanor
- The Myth of the Perfect Girl
- The Odyssey
- The Mistress's Daughter
- This Book Will Save Your Life
- May We Be Forgiven
- High Fidelity
- How to Be Good
- Slam
- The Poisoning of an American High School
- And the Mountains Echoed
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- The Kite Runner
- The Silver Screen
- A Lover's Almanac
- Les Misérables
- Garbology
- Nowhere Else on Earth
- The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
- Memories of a Pure Spring
- The Zenith
- The Crime Writer
- The Growing Seasons
I
J
- Comfort Food
- Friday Night Knitting Club
- Lucky Everyday
- The Book of Night Women
- Miral
- the Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
- The Violets of March
- The Bungalow
- Blackberry Winter
- Parasites Like Us
- Another Man's Moccasins
- The Cold Dish
- The Dark Horse
- Death Without Company
- Hell is Empty
- Junkyard Dogs
- Kindness Goes Unpunished
- As The Crow Flies
- Books by Diane Johnson
- Lulu in Marrakech
- Holy Ghost Girl
- It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- And Sometimes Why
- The Ghost Map
- Emily Hudson
- Fear of Flying
- Dubliners
- Virgin Soul
K
- Good Graces
- Home to Holly Springs
- In the Company of Others
- The Mitford Years Series
- Cherry
- The Liars' Club
- Ysabel
- Liberty
- Fox Girl
- Someone Like You
- The Poison Tree
- The Burning Air
- 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 Brightest Star in the Sky
- 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
- Bill Warrington's Last Chance
- 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
- The Sibling Effect
- The Lost Goddess
- Love Child
- Should You Leave?
- The Secret Lives of Wives
- The Impressionist
- My Revolutions
- Transmission
- The Mascot
- Girl in Translation
L
- Glover's Mistake
- Beach Day, Rainy Day, and Snow Day
- Blue Shoe
- Imperfect Birds
- Help, Thanks, Wow
- If You Were Here
- Mr. Phillips
- Pretty
- Some Girls
- Savvy
- Let’s Pretend This Never Happened
- Giraffe
- Remedies
- A Gesture Life
- Native Speaker
- Aloft
- The Surrendered
- China Boy
- The Piano Teacher
- Drifting House
- A Thousand Cuts
- The Child Who
- Hector and the Search for Happiness
- Hector and the Secrets of Love
- Hector and the Search for Lost Time
- 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
- Fifty is the New Fifty
- A Sense of Direction
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Strawberry Fields
- Poet's Pub
- Consequences
- Family Album
- Making It Up
- The Photograph
- How It All Began
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
- Author, Author
- Man of Parts
- Thinks... +
- The Chess Machine
- The Soloist
- Scattershot
- Truth and Consequences
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
- Dolci di Love
- House Of Daughters
- A Map of Tulsa
- The How of Happiness
M
- Big Green Purse
- The Prince
- The Disappearing Girl
- City of Strangers
- The Borrower
- Londonstani
- The Rice Mother
- Rage is Back
- Nectar in a Sieve
- Little Gale Gumbo
- Book of Murder
- The Arraignment
- Of Human Bondage
- The Communist Manifesto
- Mendel's Dwarf
- Mademoiselle Boleyn
- Benny & Shrimp
- The Honey Thief
- Twice Born
- Fall
- The Color of Water
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Song Yet Sung
- Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
- The Doctor and the Diva
- Sugar
- This Bitter Earth
- Amongst Women
- Eye Contact
- Neighborhood Watch
- White Heat
- The Ice Child
- 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
- Getting to Happy
- Red Rover
- The Fever Tree
- The Other Life
- Moby-Dick
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- How to Read the Air
- Evenfall
- Death of a Salesman
- On Being Different
- The Golden Road
- Amagansett
- The Savage Garden
- The Deep End of the Ocean
- Tales from the Yoga Studio
- Margaret From Maine
- Best Friends
- The Office of Desire
- Gracelin O'Malley
- Playing with the Enemy
- Fat Girl
- They Did It With Love
- Through the Heart
- The Chaperone
- What Alice Forgot
- A Hole in the Universe
- Songs in Ordinary Time
- Fiona Range
- The Gentle Axe
- A Vengeful Longing
- The Books of Toni Morrison
- Three Cups of Tea
- Stones Into Schools
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
- When the Thrill Is Gone
- Labyrinth
- Sepulchre
- Winter Ghosts
- The Last Letter from Your Lover
- Me Before You
- Left Bank
- Frida
- The Procedure
- The Unforgiving Minute
- Dear Strangers
- The Rug Merchant
- Miles from Nowhere
- The Bell
- The Sea, The Sea
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
- The Gendarme
N
- A Good Hard Look
- The Women of Brewster Place
- Teach Me
- Revolutionary Suicide
- Petals of Blood
- Short Girls
- Stealing Buddha's Dinner
- Velva Jean Learns to Drive
- Velva Jean Learns to Fly
- A Catch of Consequence
- The Sparks Fly Upward
- The Cloister Walk
- Lopsided.: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
- Salvation City
O
- We Were the Mulvaneys
- Back Roads
- Coal Run
- The Devil's Puzzle
- Life Without Parole
- My Dream of You
- Appointment in Samarra
- Cascade
- Astrid and Veronika
- Sonata for Miriam
- The Memory of Love
- Emily, Alone
- Last Night at the Lobster
- The Odds
- Songs for the Missing
- The Long Goodbye
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- My Year of Meats
- All Over Creation
- A Tale for the Time Being
P
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- The Art of Forgetting
- Salt
- Sea Change
- Reading Judas
- Sword and Blossom
- Armed Madhouse
- The Little Disturbances of Man
- Bleeding Kansas
- Between a Church and a Hard Place
- The Dream of Scipio
- An Instance of the Fingerpost
- A Long Way from Chicago
- A Year Down Yonder
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough
- The Invisible Ones
- The Queen of the South
- The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
- Geographies of Home
- Confessions Of an Economic Hitman
- The Secret History of the American Empire
- This Is Just Exactly Like You
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- In the Heart of the Sea
- Come In and Cover Me
- The Well and the Mine
- Picture Perfect
- Another Country
- Planting Dandelions
- The Last Days of Socrates
- The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food
- The Good Woman
- The Good Daughter
- You're (Not) the One
- Chasing the Flame
- In The Memory of the Forest
- The Sea Captain's Wife
- A Gift from Brittany
- Seductress
- Swann's Way
- Unpolished Gem
- Excellent Women
- The Godfather
Q
R
- A Surrey State of Affairs
- Atlas Shrugged
- Julie and Romeo
- Eat Cake
- My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
- Persian Girls
- Mice
- Cordelia Underwood
- The Rapture of Canaan
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
- The Silver Boat
- Little Night
- The Warrior
- The Lost Wife
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
- Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
- El Filibusterismo
- Noli Me Tangere
- Instruments of Darkness
- Island of Bones
- Anatomy of Murder
- The Testament of Gideon Mack
- Dogged Pursuit
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
- A Dangerous Fiction
- Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
- Wolf Totem
- Bent Road
- The Bride's Farewell
- Just in Case
- What I Was
- Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
- Lost and Found
- Attachments
- The Death Instinct
- An Ordinary Man
- Water Ghosts
- In Malice, Quite Close
S
- The Tunnel
- Juno's Daughters
- Down Town
- Passing Strange
- Dark Fire
- Dissolution
- Sovereign
- Winter in Madrid
- Heartstone
- Love Walked In
- Watermelon Nights
- Mayada, Daughter of Iraq
- Our Lady of the Lost and Found
- The Street of Crocodiles
- Sylvan Street
- The End
- Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
- September Songs
- Basilica
- You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know
- When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
- Caucasia
- Spoon Fed
- Black Beauty
- The Bastard of Istanbul
- Black Milk
- The Forty Rules of Love
- 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
- The Turquoise Ledge
- Building a Home with my Husband
- Oil!
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task
- Prozac Diary
- Changing Shoes
- Freud’s Sister
- The Rules of Inheritance
- Letters from Yellowstone
- The Book of Mormon
- On Beauty
- Galileo's Daughter
- The Little Bride
- The House at Tyneford
- Along the Watchtower
- 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
- Miss Me When I'm Gone
- Tassy Morgan's Bluff
- The Help
- Other People We Married
- Chang and Eng
- More Than It Hurts You
- Helen Keller In Love
- The Man Who Quit Money
- Flower Children
- The Foreigners
- God's Hotel
- Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
T
- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- The Joy Luck Club
- The Opposite of Fate
- The Ex Chronicles
- The Huntsman
- King of King's County
- Vanity Fair
- Something New
- Einstein's God
- Ice Land
- This Earth of Mankind
- A New Earth
- Anna Karenina
- War and Peace
- Rules of Civility
- Death in Summer
- Felicia's Journey
- My House in Umbria
- The Story of Lucy Gault
- Two Lives
- Love and Summer
- Girl from the South
- Marrying the Mistress
- Other People's Children
- Angelology
- The Slap
- Glow
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
U
V
- The Feminist and the Cowboy
- The Chalk Circle Man
- This Night's Foul Work
- The Informers
- Gods Go Begging
- Without a Backward Glance
- Trust
- 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
- The Blind Contessa's New Machine
- Strindberg's Star
- Perfect Madness
- Fingersmith
- The Little Stranger
- Magnolia Wednesdays
- Why Our Health Matters
- The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
- College Girl
- The Death of Jim Loney
- Winter in the Blood
- The Age of Innocence
- The House of Mirth
- The Custom of the Country
- A Boy's Own Story
- Fast Girls
- The Beach Trees
- The Color of Light
- Sea Change
- Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter
- Voss and The Vivisector
- Dry Ice
- Leaves of Grass
- Echo Chamber
- The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
- The Orchid Affair
- The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
- The Garden Intrigue
- Our Nig
- Pharmakon
- Tending Roses
- The Language of Sycamores
- This Must Be the Place
- Maisie Dobbs
- The Beginners
- The Ten-Year Nap
- The Uncoupling
- The Bellwether Revivals
- Lottery
- My Wife's Affair
- Bonobo Handshake
- The Books of Jacqueline Woodson
- Feathers
- Call the Midwife
- The Cross Gardener
- The Seventeen Second Miracle
- The Wednesday Letters
Y
Z
- The Shadow of the Wind
- Smashed
- Fury
- Secrets of a Jewish Mother
- The Girls from Ames
- The Magic Room
- Louisa
- The Orphanmaster
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