111 Novels Worth Reading
A updated list for my most voracious readers
Books Worth Reading
The best books about everything.
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My 15 Favorite Novels With Happy Endings
Sometimes you need things to work out all right
Why Modern Novels Can't Create Great Characters
Dickens could do what modern writers cannot
21 Russian Classics Beyond Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
The other Great Russian Novelists
What If Your Favorite Character Is a Terrible Person?
Can a drunken lecher be sympathetic?
Why Edith Wharton's sexiest novel is still so controversial today
A forgotten novel that deserves to be read
7 short books to bust your reading slump
For #3, I did something I've never done before
I'm tired of hearing about your politics on my books app
This might be a little controversial
10 books to read before summer slips away
Most lists that feature “summer reads” are really about giving you permission to read fluffy or even “trashy” stuff, and far be it from me to frown on the practice; there’s nothing wrong with some irresponsible light reading on the beach or on the plane.
Of books and boats
In The Wind and the Willows, the Rat says it all
How wokeness made literary criticism worse
Terry Eagleton, Edmund Wilson and the shocking decline of criticism
10 books for people who love rivers, summer and great literature
Find your perfect riverbank read
Memorial Day belongs to the greatest war writer America ever produced
He paid the ultimate price.
10 short books you can finish in a weekend and remember for life:
I still remember reading The Old Man And The Sea. I was sitting on a tiny island in a lake somewhere in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountains, my aluminum boat rocking on its bowline tied to the decomposed granite beach. Hours passed, the sun moved, and the pages turned. The struggle of the marlin and the man ceased, and I lay there on the granite and thought about it, with the sun going down and…
The Guardian’s Top 100 Novels list has a Hemingway problem
Why literary elites keep trying to shrink Hemingway
3 short books worth reading
#1 will make you feel, #2 will make you think, #3 will make you mad
16 books to read in Paris (A Literary Guide)
Springtime in Paris
11 masterpieces by writers who are strangely underrated now
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Evelyn Waugh vs. Modern Therapy Culture
In which Dostoevsky catches strays
Meet the man challenging Shakespeare as the GOAT of English literature
It's not who you think.
Old Hollywood stars loved books and you should too
5 stars, 15 books