Recommended Reading

In the order that they were read and reviewed (which means you can find reviews for ALL these titles on this blog), here are our lists of The Starving Artist’s Recommended Reading. For your convenience, they are broken down into genres. Books recommended with reservations are in parenthesis, and we suggest you read the review before choosing.

LITERARY AND GENERAL/POPULAR FICTION

CLASSICS (app. pre-1900)

CHILDRENS through MIDDLE GRADES

YA (starting with the tweens for some books)

PICTURE BOOKS

FANTASY

SCIENCE FICTION

WORLD LITERATURE (NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING, MAINLY TRANSLATIONS) AND TRAVEL

GRAPHIC NOVELS

NON-FICTION

SCIENCE

HISTORY

WRITING AND PUBLISHING

SELF-HELP

CHRISTIANITY

RELIGION

PLAYS

BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR

FOOD AND COOKBOOKS

HOMESCHOOL AND LEARNING

PHILOSOPHY

COMEDY

HOLIDAYS

OTHER

SHORT STORIES AND SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

POETRY

3 thoughts on “Recommended Reading

  1. May I recommend, although I haven’t read it in years, A Separate Peace by John Knowles, and, for elementary school level, Mildred Taylor’s series starting with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (protagonist is 9).

  2. My son (8 ) and I are in the middle of The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum and it is marvelous!! I just discovered your blog and can’t wait to dig in.

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