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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.

READING PATHWAYS: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  In some parts of the world, readers are so familiar, so comfortable with the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

Reading Pathways: John Irving

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

Reading Pathways: David Foster Wallace

To the casual reader, David Foster Wallace may seem intimidating. The words “postmodern” or “experimental” or “preposterously intelligent” are never ...

Reading Pathways: Haruki Murakami

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

Reading Pathways: John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath being as commonplace as they are in the respective book-bags of ...

Reading Pathways: Charles Dickens

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