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  • Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors

    (By Jeff O'Neal)

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    Author Jeff O'Neal
    “Book Descriptions: There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics.

    Each chapter presents an author, explains why you might want to try them, and lays out a 3- or 4-book reading sequence designed to help you experience fully what they have to offer. It’s a fun, accessible, and informative way to enrich your reading life.

    A wide array of writers, critics, and bloggers offer their expertise and passion for these authors to help you get started reading authors you’ve always wanted to try.

    Includes chapters by Erin Morgenstern (The Night Circus) on Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) on Bernard Malamud, Linda Fairstein (The Alexandra Cooper Series) on Edgar Allan Poe, and Kevin Smokler (Practical Classics) on Sherman Alexie.

    Also includes chapters on reading your way into:

    Margaret Atwood
    Jane Austen
    Ray Bradbury
    Italo Calvino
    Philip K Dick
    Charles Dickens
    E.M. Forster
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Ernest Hemingway
    Zora Neale Hurston
    John Irving
    Stephen King
    Cormac McCarthy
    Herman Melville
    Arthur Miller
    Alice Munro
    Haruki Murakami
    Richard Russo
    Zadie Smith
    David Foster Wallace
    Colson Whitehead”

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