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#Reading Pathways

Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain authors. Check out previous entries on Toni Morrison, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck, and others.

Getting Started with Toni Morrison: A Reading Pathway

This post is part of our Toni Morrison Reading Day: a celebration of  one of our favorite authors on the ...

READING PATHWAYS: Philip Roth, Volume I: The Social Novels

I’m cheating with this one. To my mind, there are two main thoroughfares through Roth’s work: the big social novels ...

Reading Pathways: Zadie Smith

For whatever reason, Zadie Smith is a lightning rod for sanctimony. She gets picked on so much more than most ...

Reading Pathways: Margaret Atwood

  Margaret Atwood. Maggie. Companion of the Order of Canada. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Bad-ass bitch of ...

READING PATHWAYS: David Mitchell

Among the ways I’m grateful to have been introduced to David Mitchell’s novels, one is that I had no preconceptions ...

READING PATHWAYS: Jane Austen

Jane Austen wrote possibly the best, most biting and entertaining social commentary of the English middle and upper classes that ...

READING PATHWAYS: Colson Whitehead

Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain ...

Reading Pathways: Richard Russo

Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain ...

Reading Pathways: E.M. Forster

Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain ...

READING PATHWAYS: Jonathan Tropper

Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain ...