![]() ![]() Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Free eBook – Gutenberg / Kindle).Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth.Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking. Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs.Even if they don’t, they’re apt to entertain you. But you could do worse, and a good many of these might show you some new ways of doing your work. These are the ones that worked for me, that’s all. In some way or other, I suspect each book in the list had an influence on the books I wrote.Īs you scan this list, please remember that I’m not Oprah and this isn’t my book club. These are the best books I’ve read over the last three or four years, the period during which I wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Hearts in Atlantis, On Writing, and the as-yet-unpublished From a Buick Eight. In the afterword to his acclaimed guide On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Stephen King shares the following reading list of 96 books, covering a diverse range of fiction and non-fiction titles.Īccompanying the list is this explanation: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) ![]()
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