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What Author Haven’t You Read Because You Don’t Know Where to Start?

Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Chief of Staff

Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast. She can be reached at rebecca@riotnewmedia.com.

This is a question we’ve been thinking about a lot lately at Riot Central, and it’s one we asked many of the folks we met at BEA. Answers were all over the board: Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Morrison (gasp!), James Joyce, John Irving, even the late, great Ray Bradbury. My own is Ernest Hemingway, which I always qualify by noting that I *have* read his short stories. Still, I know. I know that I should read him and that I want to read him, but I have no idea where to start, so I never do.

So, what author haven’t you read because you don’t know where to start?