Start with The Affirmation, or The Glamour, or even A Dream of Wessex (avoid the US version of the last of these, which was retitled The Perfect Lover and Americanized really crassly . . . so you have people stopping at gas stations in the middle of Hardy Country). All of his novels are good, but these I think offer the easiest way in, as it were.
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Start with The Affirmation, or The Glamour, or even A Dream of Wessex (avoid the US version of the last of these, which was retitled The Perfect Lover and Americanized really crassly . . . so you have people stopping at gas stations in the middle of Hardy Country). All of his novels are good, but these I think offer the easiest way in, as it were.