Ryan answers “If I'm new to Mitchell, should I start...”

Jeremy Anderson asked this question about Utopia Avenue:

If I'm new to Mitchell, should I start with this book or something else?

Ryan I think Cloud Atlas is the place to begin with Mitchell. It's a brilliant book and can be read without knowing anything about his extended universe.

Ut…moreI think Cloud Atlas is the place to begin with Mitchell. It's a brilliant book and can be read without knowing anything about his extended universe.

Utopia Avenue has some ties to The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The Bone Clocks, and Ghostwritten. You can still enjoy Utopia without having read those, but you'll run into spoilers for Thousand Autumns. Which I think is a good second read, after Cloud Atlas. If you like Cloud Atlas and its experimental structure, Ghostwritten is a good third read.(less)

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