Reading Guides
Reading guides listed alphabetically by title.
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A
- About Grace
- The Accident Man
- The Accidental Masterpiece
- Acqua Alta
- Across the Nightingale Floor
- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
- The Adventures of Augie March
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Adventures of Thursday Next
- After the Falls
- After the Plague
- The Age of Innocence
- Age of Iron
- Agnes Grey
- A Good Hard Look
- Alice Bliss
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- Alive in Necropolis
- All Over Creation
- All the Sad Young Literary Men
- Aloft
- Along the Watchtower
- The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
- Amagansett
- American Fuji
- Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
- Amongst Women
- An African Affair
- And Sometimes Why
- The Angel Maker
- Angelology
- Angle of Repose
- Animal Farm
- Anna Karenina
- Annie Dunne
- Another Country
- Another Man's Moccasins
- Another Place at the Table
- Armed Madhouse
- The Arraignment
- Art in America
- Astrid & Veronika
- Atlas Shrugged
- Augusta Locke
- Author, Author
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- The Autobiography of My Mother
B
- Back Roads
- Basilica
- The Bastard of Istanbul
- Bastard Out of Carolina
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
- Beach Day, Rainy Day, and Snow Day
- The Beach House
- The Beach Trees
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
- Because I Am Furniture
- Bent Road
- The Beginners
- The Begotten & The Betrayed
- Believe Me
- The Bell
- Benny & Shrimp
- Beside a Burning Sea
- Best Friends
- Betrayal
- The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
- Between a Church and a Hard Place
- Big Green Purse
- The Big Over Easy
- Bill Warrington's Last Chance
- Black Beauty
- Black Milk
- Black, White, and Jewish
- Bleeding Kansas
- The Blind Contessa's New Machine
- Blonde Roots
- Blood in the Sun
- Blood Kin
- Blood of the Prodigal
- Blue Diary
- Blue Shoe
- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- Bonobo Handshake
- The Book of Fires
- The Book of Mormon
- The Book of Night Women
- Book of Murder
- The Books of Toni Morrison
- A Border Passage
- The Borrower
- Boswell's Presumptuous Task
- A Boy's Own Story
- Brethren
- The Bride's Farewell
- Bride Island
- Bridget Jones's Diary
- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Brightest Star in the Sky
- Building a Home with My Husband
- The Bungalow
- Burning Bright
- The Butterflies of Grand Canyon
C
- Caleb's Crossing
- Candide
- Carpenter's Gothic
- A Catch of Consequence
- Catching Genius
- Caucasia
- Cavedweller
- The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
- The Cellist of Sarajevo
- Ceremony
- C'est la Vie
- The Chalk Circle Man
- Chang and Eng
- Changing Shoes
- Chasing the Flame
- Cherry
- The Chess Machine
- Chez Moi
- China Boy
- Church of the Dog
- The City of Falling Angels
- City of God
- City of Strangers
- City of Thieves
- The City of Your Final Destination
- The Cloister Walk
- Coal Run
- The Cold Dish
- Collapse
- College Girl
- The Color of Light
- The Color of Water
- Come In and Cover Me
- Comfort Food
- The Commissario Brunetti Series
- Committed
- The Communist Manifesto
- Confessions Of an Economic Hitman
- Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
- Consequences
- Consider the Lily
- Cordelia Underwood
- Cousin Bette
- The Creation of Eve
- The Creator's Map
- Crime and Punishment
- The Crime Writer
- The Cross Gardener
- Crusade
- The Cunning Man
D
- Dancing with Rose
- The Danish Girl
- Dark Fire
- The Dark Horse
- Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
- Daughters of Rome
- David Copperfield
- A Day Late and a Dollar Short
- Dead End Gene Pool
- The Dead Fathers Club
- The Deadwood Beetle
- Dearest Dorothy Series
- Dear Strangers
- Dear Zoe
- A Death in the Family
- The Death Instinct
- Death in Summer
- Death of a Salesman
- The Death of Jim Loney
- Death Without Company
- Deep Down True
- The Deep End of the Ocean
- The Deportees and Other Stories
- The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders
- The Devil's Puzzle
- Diane Johnson
- Diary of a Bad Year
- The Disappearing Girl
- Discovery of Witches
- Disgrace
- Dissolution
- The Divide
- The Divorce Party
- Do the Windows Open?
- The Doctor and the Diva
- The Doctor's Wife
- Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- Dogged Pursuit
- Dolci di Love
- Down Town
- The Drawing of the Three: The Dark Tower II
- Dream Jungle
- The Dream Life of Sukhanov
- The Dream of Scipio
- Dreaming In English
- Dreamland
- Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
- Dry Ice
- Dubliners
- Dune Road
E
- East of Eden
- Eat Cake
- Eating Heaven
- Eat, Pray, Love
- The Echo Chamber
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
- Einstein's God
- El Filibusterismo
- Emily, Alone
- Emily Hudson
- Emma
- The End
- Enthusiasm
- English
- The Books of Eva Ibbotson
- Evenfall
- Everything Matters!
- The Ex Chronicles
- Excellent Women
- Expecting Adam
- Eye Contact
- The Eyre Affair
F
- Fall
- Fall of Frost
- Fall of Giants
- Falling Angels
- Falling Under
- Family Album
- Farishta
- The Farming of Bones
- Fast Girls
- Fat Girl
- Fear of Flying
- Feathers
- Felicia's Journey
- The Fiction Class
- Fifth Business
- Fifty Is the New Fifty
- Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
- Fingersmith
- Fiona Range
- Fire In Beulah
- The First Husband
- Five Skies
- The Flaming Corsage
- The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle
- Flower Children
- The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles
- The Forest Lover
- Forgotten Country
- The Forty Rules of Love
- Four Queens
- The Fourth Bear
- Fox Girl
- Frankenstein
- Freddy and Fredericka
- Free Agent
- Frida
- Frida's Bed
- Friday Night Knitting Club
- A Friend of the Earth
- From a Crooked Rib
- From Binge to Blackout
- From the Memoirs of a Non–Enemy Combatant
G
- Galileo's Daughter
- Gang Leader for a Day
- The Garden Intrigue
- The Garden of Ruth
- The Gendarme
- The Gentle Axe
- The Geographer's Library
- Geographies of Home
- A Gesture Life
- Get to Work
- Getting to Happy
- The Ghost Map
- A Gift from Brittany
- Gifts
- Giraffe
- The Girl from Foreign
- Girl from the South
- Girl in Hyacinth Blue
- Girl in Translation
- The Girls from Ames
- Girls of Riyadh
- The Girls Who Went Away
- The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- Girl With a Pearl Earring
- Girl, Undressed
- The Glimmer Palace
- Glover's Mistake
- Glow
- God Is Dead
- The Godfather
- Gods Go Begging
- The Golden Road
- Goodbye Lemon
- A Good American
- Good Graces
- The Good Wife Strikes Back
- Gracelin O'Malley
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Grass for His Pillow
- Grave Goods
- A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club)
- Great Expectations
- The Growing Seasons
- The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I
H
- Haunting Jasmine
- Haunt Me Still
- Heart of Darkness
- The Heart of the Matter
- Hector and the Search for Happiness
- Hector and the Secrets of Love
- The Heights
- Helen of Troy
- Hell is Empty
- The Help
- The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo
- A Hero of Our Time
- Her Sister's Shadow
- Herzog
- High Fidelity
- High Points and Low
- History Lesson for Girls
- Hold Tight
- A Hole in the Universe
- Holy Ghost Girl
- Home to Holly Springs
- The House Gun
- The House at Tyneford
- House of Bilqis
- House of Daughters
- The House of Mirth
- The House of Tomorrow
- The Household Guide to Dying
- The House of Mondavi
- How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?
- The How of Happiness
- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- How to Be an American Housewife
- How to Be Cool
- How to Be Good
- How to Buy a Love of Reading
- How to Read the Air
- Howards End
- The Huge Book of Hell
- Hunger
- The Huntsman
I
- The Ice Child
- Ice Land
- The Idea of Perfection
- If You Were Here
- Imperfect Birds
- The Impressionist
- In Malice, Quite Close
- The Divine Comedy Volume I: The Inferno
- The Informers
- The Inner Circle
- Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa
- The Inspector Montalbano Series
- An Instance of the Fingerpost
- Instruments of Darkness
- Interred with Their Bones
- The Interruption of Everything
- In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma
- In the Company of Others
- In the Heart of the Sea
- In The Memory of the Forest
- In the Name of Salome
- In the Woods
- Inventing the Rest of Our Lives
- The Invisible Ones
- Ironweed
- Island of Wings
- Isle of Palms
- It Is Well with My Soul
J
- The Books of Jacqueline Woodson
- The Jane Austen Book Club
- Jane Eyre
- Joan Bauer
- Journal of a UFO Investigator
- Joy for Beginners
- The Joy Luck Club
- Julie and Romeo
- The Junior Officers Reading Club
- Junkyard Dogs
- Juno's Daughters
- Just in Case
- Justine
K
- Keeping the Feast
- Keeping the Moon
- The Kept Man
- Kindness Goes Unpunished
- King of King's County
- The Kitchen Boy
- The Kite Runner
- Knots
- Kristin Lavransdatter
L
- Labyrinth
- Ladies with Options
- Land of a Thousand Hills
- Lake Of Dreams
- The Language of Sycamores
- Larry's Party
- Las Uvas de la Ira, D Ratones y Hombres, y la Perla
- The Last Days of Socrates
- The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
- The Last Friend
- The Last Letter from Your Lover
- Last Night at the Lobster
- The Last Nude
- The Last Promise
- The Last Summer (of You and Me)
- Leaves of Grass
- Leaving Tangier
- The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
- Left Bank
- Les Misérables
- Letters from Yellowstone
- The Liars' Club
- The Liar's Diary
- Lies of the Heart
- Liberty
- Libra
- Life Studies
- The Likeness
- The Line
- Links
- Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
- Listening Is an Act of Love
- The Little Book
- The Little Bride
- The Little Disturbances of Man
- Little Dorrit
- Little Face
- Little Gale Gumbo
- The Little Stranger
- Londonstani
- Looking for Alaska
- London Is the Best City in America
- The Long Goodbye
- A Long, Long Way
- A Long Way from Chicago
- Lopsided.: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting
- Losing the Moon
- Lost and Found
- The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
- The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)
- The Lost Goddess
- The Lost Wife
- The Lost Years of Merlin Epic
- Lottery
- Louisa
- Love and Biology at the Center of the Universe
- Love and Summer
- Love Child
- Love Walked In
- A Lover's Almanac
- The Luckiest Girl in the World
- Lucky Everyday
- Lulu in Marrakech
- Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him
- Luncheon of the Boating Party
- Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
M
- Madame Bovary
- Mademoiselle Boleyn
- The Magic Room
- The Magicians
- The Magic of Ordinary Days
- Magnolia Wednesdays
- Maisie Dobbs
- Making It Up
- Man Of Parts
- The Manticore
- Maps
- March
- Marry Him
- Marrying Mozart
- Marrying the Mistress
- Martha Washington
- Mary, Called Magdalene
- Mary Chesnut's Diary
- The Mascot
- The Master and Margarita
- Matters of Faith
- Mayada, Daughter of Iraq
- The Melting Season
- Memories of a Pure Spring
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter
- The Memory of Running
- Mendel's Dwarf
- The Mercy Seat
- The Mermaid Chair
- Mice
- Miles from Nowhere
- Miracle at St. Anna
- Miss Garnet's Angel
- Miss Harper Can Do It
- Miss Julia Throws a Wedding
- Miss Me When I'm Gone
- Mistress of the Art of Death
- The Mistress's Daughter
- Mistress of the Revolution
- Mistress of Rome
- The Mitford Years Series
- Moby-Dick
- More Than It Hurts You
- The Moonstone
- Motherland
- Mr. Phillips
- Mr. Vertigo
- My Antonia
- My Dream of You
- My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness
- My House in Umbria
- My Name is Memory
- My Revolutions
- My Wife's Affair
- My Year of Meats
N
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- Native Speaker
- Nectar in a Sieve
- Neighborhood Watch
- A New Earth
- The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
- The Night Journal
- No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club
- No Man's Land
- No One is Here Except All of Us
- A Noble Radiance
- Noli Me Tangere
- None to Accompany Me
- Northanger Abbey
- The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
- Nowhere Else on Earth
O
- Obedience
- The Observations
- The Odds
- The Odyssey
- The Office of Desire
- Of Human Bondage
- Of Mice and Men
- Oh, Play That Thing
- Oil!
- The Old Romantic
- The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food
- On Beauty
- On the Divinity of Second Chances
- On the Road
- On the Road: The Original Scroll
- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- The Opposite of Fate
- The Orchid Affair
- An Ordinary Man
- The Oresteia
- The Other Life
- Other People's Children
- Other People We Married
- The Other Woman
- Our Lady of the Lost and Found
- Our Nig
P
- The Pact
- A Palace in the Old Village
- Parasites Like Us
- Passarola Rising
- Passing Strange
- The Passion of Artemisia
- Paula Spencer
- Pawleys Island
- The Pearl
- Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- People of the Book
- Perfect Madness
- The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12
- Persian Girls
- A Person of Interest
- The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
- Persuasion
- Petals of Blood
- Petropolis
- Pharmakon
- The Photograph
- The Piano Teacher
- The Piano Teacher
- The Pickup
- Picture Perfect
- Pig Island
- The Pillars of the Earth
- A Place Called Canterbury
- Plantation
- Planting Dandelions
- Playing with the Enemy
- The Poison Tree
- The Poisoning of an American High School
- The Postmistress
- Pretty
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Prince
- The Principles of Uncertainty
- The Procedure
- Promises to Keep
- Prozac Diary
Q
R
- The Rape of Nanking
- The Rapture of Canaan
- Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved
- Rashi's Daughters, Book II: Miriam
- Rashi's Daughters, Book III: Rachel
- Rasputin's Daughter
- Ravelstein
- Reading Judas
- The Red and the Black
- The Red Badge of Courage
- Red Rover
- Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
- Redeemed
- Reign of Madness
- Remarkable Creatures
- Remedies
- Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
- Revolutionary Suicide
- The Rice Mother
- Riding With The Queen
- A Rip in Heaven
- Riven Rock
- The River King
- The Romance Readers' Book Club
- The Romanov Bride
- A Room with a View
- Roscoe
- Round Robin
- The Royal Wulff Murders
- Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
- The Rug Merchant
- The Ruins of California
- Rules of Civility
- The Rules of Inheritance
- The Runaway Quilt
- The Russian Concubine
- The Russian Debutante's Handbook
S
- The Saffron Kitchen
- Salt
- Salvation City
- The Savage Garden
- Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
- Savvy
- Scattershot
- The School of Essential Ingredients
- Scribbling the Cat
- The Sea, The Sea
- The Sea Captain's Wife
- Sea Change
- Second Chance
- Secret Daughter
- The Secret Eleanor
- The Secret Garden
- The Secret History of the American Empire
- The Secret Life of Bees
- The Secret Lives of Wives
- Secrets of a Jewish Mother
- The Secret Scripture
- Secrets
- Seductress
- Seize the Day
- Self-Made Man
- Sense and Sensibility
- September Songs
- Sepulchre
- The Serpent's Tale
- The Seventeen Second Miracle
- Shades of Grey
- The Shadow of the Wind
- The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry
- The Shell Collector
- Short Girls
- A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
- Should You Leave?
- Siddhartha
- The Signal
- The Silver Boat
- The Silver Screen
- Sister Noon
- the Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay
- Slam
- Slow Dancing on Price's Pier
- Slow Love
- Slow Man
- Smashed
- The Solitaire Mystery
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers
- The Soloist
- Somebody Else's Daughter
- Some Girls
- Someone Like You
- Something to Declare
- Sonata for Miriam
- The Song of the Lark
- Songs for the Missing
- Songs in Ordinary Time
- Song Yet Sung
- South of Superior
- Sovereign
- The Spark Flys Upward
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics
- The Speckled Monster
- Spoon Fed
- The Spy Who Jumped Off The Screen
- The Staggerford Flood
- A Star Called Henry
- Stealing Buddha's Dinner
- Stern Men
- Still Life with Chickens
- The Stone Diaries
- Stones Into Schools
- The Story of Lucy Gault
- The Story of My Life
- Strangers in the House
- Strawberry Fields
- The Street of Crocodiles
- Sugar
- Sullivan's Island
- Summertime
- Sunset Song
- The Surrendered
- The Suspect
- Swann's Way
- Swapping Lives
- The Sweet Life
- Sword and Blossom
- Sylvan Street
T
- The Tain
- A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club)
- The Tale of Genji
- Tales from the Yoga Studio
- Talk Talk
- Tassy Morgan's Bluff
- Teach Me
- The Teahouse Fire
- The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
- Tending Roses
- The Ten Best Days of My Life
- The Ten-Year Nap
- The Terra-Cotta Dog
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- The Testament of Gideon Mack
- Tempted by Trouble
- Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl
- That Summer
- Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
- They Did It With Love
- Thinks...
- This Bitter Earth
- This Blinding Absence of Light
- This Book Will Save Your Life
- This Earth of Mankind
- This Is Just Exactly Like You
- This Must Be the Place
- This Night's Foul Work
- Thoughts Without Cigarettes
- A Thousand Cuts
- A Thousand Splendid Suns
- A Thread of Sky
- Three Cups of Tea
- Through the Heart
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
- In the Time of the Butterflies
- To Be Young, Gifted and Black
- Too Close to the Falls
- The Tortilla Curtain
- Transmission
- Traveler
- The Triumph of Deborah
- The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
- Trust
- The Truth About Forever
- Truth and Consequences
- Truth Teller's Lie
- The Tunnel
- The Turquoise Ledge
- The Turtle Warrior
- Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
- Twice Born
- Twisted
- Two Lives
U
- The Uncoupling
- The Underdogs
- The Unforgiving Minute
- Uniform Justice
- Unpolished Gem
- The Union Quilters
- Ursula, Under
V
- Vanity Fair
- Velva Jean Learns to Drive
- Velva Jean Learns to Fly
- A Vengeful Longing
- La vida secreta de las abejas
- The Violets of March
- The Virgin Blue
- Voluntary Madness
- Voss and The Vivisector
W
- Wandering Stars
- War and Peace
- The Warrior
- The Waste Lands: The Dark Tower III
- Water Ghosts
- Watermelon Nights
- Water Music
- We Were the Mulvaneys
- The Wednesday Letters
- Weeping Underwater Looks a Lot Like Laughter
- Weird Sisters
- The Well and the Mine
- The Wet Nurse's Tale
- What Alice Forgot
- What I Thought I Knew
- What I Was
- What You Owe Me
- When the Elephants Dance
- When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep
- When the Killing's Done
- When the Thrill Is Gone
- The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
- White Heat
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
- Why Our Health Matters
- The Widow's Season
- The Wind River Mystery Series
- Wine to Water
- Winging It
- Winter Ghosts
- Winter in the Blood
- Winter in Madrid
- Without a Net
- Without a Backward Glance
- Wit's End
- Wives Behaving Badly
- Wizard and Glass: The Dark Tower IV
- Wolf Totem
- Wolves of the Crescent Moon
- The Woman in White
- The Woman Who Walked into Doors
- The Women
- The Women of Brewster Place
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough
- The Wonder Spot
- Work Song
- The World in Half
- World of Wonders
- World Without End
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