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After listening to Stephen King\u2019s mind-bending 11\/22\/63: A Novel<\/em><\/a>, and reading his book of advice for writers (reviewed here<\/a>), I\u2019m willing\u2014eager, actually\u2014to read more. But my tolerance for the horror genre is limited, and he\u2019s written, a gazillion books, so where do I start?<\/p>\n

You may feel the same way about Margaret Atwood, Nick Hornby, James Baldwin, China Mi\u00e9ville, or other notables. The folks at Book Riot see our confusion and want to help. They\u2019ve created \u201cReading Pathways<\/a>\u201d for 34 notable authors that introduce the works of great authors in a thoughtful, non-random way.<\/p>\n

Their three-book selections are geared to encourage affection for the writers\u2019 best and most accessible works, so that new readers will want to keep going. I tested their method with the Reading Pathway for Charles Dickens, since I have read or listened to every one of his novels at least once. And their advice was pretty good.<\/p>\n

But Book Riot doesn\u2019t just cover authors you\u2019ve heard of forever and the musty fusty classics. David Foster Wallace is here, as is Zadie Smith. A little sci-fi and fantasy, too.<\/p>\n

A New Year is coming up. Maybe it\u2019s time to follow a new Reading Pathway! Me, I\u2019ll be reading King\u2019s Under the Dome<\/em>. Does that sound\u00a0 like the right first step to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After listening to Stephen King\u2019s mind-bending 11\/22\/63: A Novel, and reading his book of advice for writers (reviewed here), I\u2019m willing\u2014eager, actually\u2014to read more. But my tolerance for the horror genre is limited, and he\u2019s written, a gazillion books, so … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Reading Pathways - Finding your way into new authors' works (including those classics you always meant to read!)","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,4,104],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-readers","category-the-morgue","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-Z4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}