Worlds
World-building, fantasy, and speculative fiction guides.
Best Books About Travel and Discovery by Jules Verne
Jules Verne invented the modern adventure of science - his journeys to the center of the earth and around it, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About Travel and Discovery by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux defined the modern travel narrative - his journeys by train, bus and boat across half the world, with clear content notes on every pick.
Best Books About Travel and Discovery by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island made him beloved, but Robert Louis Stevenson was also a great traveler - his journey books, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About War and Peace by Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See is among the most beloved novels of the century - Anthony Doerr's essential fiction, with clear content notes on every pick.
Best Books About War and Peace by Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front is the greatest anti-war novel ever published - Remarque's fiction of the trenches, with clear content notes on every pick.
Best Books About War and Peace by Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk served in the Pacific and spent a lifetime writing it - The Caine Mutiny and his other war novels, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About War and Peace by Kristin Hannah
Two sisters in occupied France - The Nightingale and Kristin Hannah's other novels of women in war, with clear content notes on every recommendation.
Best Books About War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy is the novelist against whom all others are measured - War and Peace and his books of war, love and meaning, with clear notes on every pick.
Best Books About World Literature by Naguib Mahfouz
The first Arab Nobel laureate made the life of a city the subject of world literature - his Cairo Trilogy and essential novels, with clear notes on every pick.
Best Books About World Literature by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace and Anna Karenina are among the greatest books ever written - Tolstoy's essential world literature, with clear notes on every title.
Best Books About World Literature by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude made the extraordinary feel ordinary - the essential Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with clear content notes on every title.
Best Books About World Literature by Orhan Pamuk
My Name Is Red made the meeting of East and West a murder mystery - Orhan Pamuk's essential novels of Istanbul, with clear content notes on every title.