With over 80,000 ratings on Goodreads, "Giovanni's Room" is the most-rated James Baldwin book amongst Goodreads members. Baldwin's second novel is considered a gay literature classic, the story of an American man in Paris who is caught between morality and desire when he meets an alluring man named Giovanni.7 Sept 2021
What Henry James book should I read first?
Best to start with early James - something like Washington Square or Portrait of a Lady. If you want to jump into the deep end, go for The Golden Bowl.
What should I read first?
- The Great Gatsby by F.
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D.
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
- The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
- Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana by Devdutt Pattanaik.
- The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini.
Which is the best book to read?
- 1 . In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust.
- 2 . Ulysses by James Joyce.
- 3 . Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
- 4 . One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
- 5 . The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- 6 . Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
- 7 . War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
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What is the most beautifully written book in the world?
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver.
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen.
What is the #1 book in the world?
Rank Title Genre
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1 Da Vinci Code,The Crime, Thriller & Adventure
2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Children's Fiction
3 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Children's Fiction
4 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Children's Fiction
What order should I read James Baldwin in?
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
- Notes of a Native Son (1955)
- Giovanni's Room (1956)
- The Fire Next Time (1963)
- No Name in the Street (1972)