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What author haven’t you read because you don’t know where to start? We all have at least one, right?

Today, we are launching a Kickstarter campaign to create, produce, and distribute a book version of our popular Reading Pathways feature that we’ve re-named Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authorsso you’ll never again miss out on an awesome reading experience just because you don’t know where to start.

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These books were recommended by the Book Riot community

  1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  2. The Inkheart Trilogy by Cornelia Funke
  3. The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley
  4. In Quest of the Perfect Book by William Dana Orcutt
  5. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
  6. Among Others by Jo Walton
  7. Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
  8. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  9. The Breath of God by Jeffrey Small
  10. O, Juliet by Robin Maxwell
  11. Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
  12. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
  13. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
  14. Library of Shadows by Mikkel Birkegaard
  15. The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
  16. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  17. The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
  18. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  19. The World According to Garp by John Irving
  20. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
  21. Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume edited by Jennifer O’Connell
  22. Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife by Sam Savage
  23. City of the Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
  24. Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife by Francine Prose
  25. Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
  26. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
  27. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  28. Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
  29. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  30. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
  31. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
  32. Imagined London by Anna Quindlen
  33. A Gentle Madness by Nicholas Basbanes
  34. Ex-Libris by Ross King
  35. The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  36. The Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber
  37. The Bookman mystery series by John Dunning
  38. Kensington Gardens by Rodrigo Fresan
  39. Possession by A.S. Byatt
  40. The Pagemaster by David Kirschner
  41. The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Alison Hoover Bartlett
  42. Books by Larry McMurtry
  43. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  44. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
  45. How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen
  46. Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
  47. Shelf Life by Gary Paulson
  48. A Reader’s Delight by Noel Perrin
  49. Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co. by Jeremy Mercer
  50. What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children’s Bookscollected by Amy Gash
  51. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
  52. So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson
  53. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski
  54. Behind the Bestsellers by Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
  55. Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
  56. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
  57. Hit Lit by James W. Hall
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