Top 10 Series: Start Here if You Want to Read High-Quality Stories

A list containing all the Top 10 series listings

Our intelligence expanded and we entered this new evolutionary phase of highly connected intelligence after we learned to read and write. We would not be intelligent if we lived alone on this planet without the ability to talk with the dead — through reading books.

It is the company of these great minds — who wrote what they thought was important — that makes us more intelligent than human beings of any other era. The role of publishing and then online publishing can never be ignored in this evolution.

Let’s read some quotes about reading before looking at the listing of listings:

• “If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling
• “Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.” — Barack Obama
• “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
• “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.” — Nora Ephron
• “Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” — Jean Rhys
• “A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood
• “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
• “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” — Maya Angelou

The Worst Enemy to Creativity Is Self-Doubt

How Much Money 1000 Views Earn You on Medium

No Matter How Little You Write, Write Something That Matters

How to Approach Tough Decisions in Your Writing

Smart Thinking in Smart Sentences Makes You a Good Writer

Write One Sentence in One Minute to Be a Writer

What Is Your Turnaround Time?

Write Even When Nobody Is Reading

Seek Rejection to Be a Better Writer

A Good Writer Doesn’t Pretend to Be a Writer

How to Balance Quality and Quantity of Your Content

Your Life and Hopes Are the GPS of Your Writing

Writing Is a Habit, Not an Art

Five Things People Think Before Reading Your Story

If You Are a Writer, Act Like One

Stay Faithful to the Stories in Your Head

Express Yourself, Don’t Depress Yourself

Do Not Hurry, Do Not Rest

Blogging Is Literature in a Hurry

Well-Written Stories Take Less Time to Read

If You Read Only One Story Today, Read One of These

The Stories You Must Read

The Stories You Must Not Ignore

This is the Top 10 Series — you can meet 500+ top writers with these links:

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Final Thoughts

If your story was selected as one of the Top 10, please share another one of your stories in the comments with a brief introduction and a short review that can convince a reader to read your piece. (Please write the review in the third person and start it with your name.)

I must have missed something today. I cannot read every story on Illumination and Illumination-Curated. Dr Mehmet Yildiz, the Chief Editor and Founder of Illumination and Illumination-Curated, read, highlighted, and applauded every good story when he started his publications. He still reads almost all of the good ones. I try — and fail daily — to read all of the masterpieces.

So, help me. Help me to find and rank the best work of the writers of Illumination and Illumination-Curated.

Happy reading.

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You can read my curated stories here.