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Get to know famous authors from every genre of literature, as well as lesser-known authors who deserve a spot on your bookshelf! These posts will take you on a deep dive of their lives and works.
Want to get acquainted with Shakespeare and gain a working knowledge of his plays? Here’s your guide to all thirty-eight Shakespeare plays, with summaries for each one. You can also take the Shakespeare reading challenge, if you want to be super ambitious and read through the Bard’s plays in a year!
L. M. Montgomery published twenty novels between 1908 and 1939. Here’s a list of each of her series in order, as well as standalone novels, and sneak-peak summaries of each one so you can decide which to read next!
Get to know Josephine Tey, a Scottish mystery novelist who often broke the rules of Golden Age detective fiction. Here’s one bookworm’s recommendation for the top three must-read books by Josephine Tey, so you know which to try first!
Slip away to rural England with Miss Read, author of cozy books set in the English countryside. Her Fairacre and Thrush Green novels explore English village life in the years after World War II. If you love reading about the British countryside, Miss Read’s gentle books will be just your cup of tea!
Get to know one of the greatest authors of all time with this list of Charles Dickens books in order! Dickens’s novels average about 700 pages in length, but you can familiarize yourself with his work with this list of Charles Dickens novels in publication order, along with a short summary premise for each.
If you’re looking for a contemporary author whose books have an old-fashioned feel and love historical fiction or neo-Gothic literature, Kate Morton is for you! Here’s a reading guide to all the Kate Morton books in order, with summaries and my suggestion of which Kate Morton book you should read first!
As a big Agatha Christie fan, I wanted to create a list of all the Agatha Christie books in order. This ultimate Agatha Christie bibliography organizes all her published work by series detective and genre (I’ve included all the Agatha Christie plays and Mary Westmacott books, too!). Get to know the Queen of Crime, and download the free printable Agatha Christie reading order checklist I’ve included at the end of the post!
The Inklings were a group of Oxford professors and residents who met in the 1930s and 40s to discuss literature, philosophy, and culture. Bibliophiles know the group for its two most famous members, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Together, the Inklings changed the way we think about imagination and religion in the…
Get to know these female authors from the 1920s to 1960s, and add some new zest to your reading life with some of their best midcentury novels! Guest post by Michelle Quinn Do you remember Arnold Lobel’s Owl At Home? It isn’t as famous as his Frog and Toad series but it’s my favourite Lobel…
These classic novels by black authors explore the African-American experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from pre-Civil War through Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance era through the Great Depression and World War II. Add these fiction classics of African-American literature to your reading list! Classics by Black Authors Do you know what thrills me about…
Here’s a condensed (but still lengthy) introduction to the famous literary Brontë family, in particular the novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. You’ll also find summaries of the seven novels published by the Brontë sisters, as well as publication order and my suggestion of which Brontë novel to read first! Meeting the Brontë Sisters There’s a…
Mary Stewart is a mid-century British author who helped establish the romantic suspense genre in the 1950s, and contributed to the resurgence of the fantasy novel in the 1970s with her Merlin trilogy. She is a gifted and classy writer with a long career, and I can’t wait for you to “meet” her now! For…