Since 2021, I’ve done my best to log all the books I’ve read because writers are made from the books they read. Yes, we need to put pen to the paper, write and rewrite over and over, but at end of the day, what do we read to learn more? Read books by other great writers. I’m listing the books that I read from start to finish, not the ones I abandoned mid-way. I hope you find interesting titles in the mix. Many are writing-related books (I know I can’t get away from work) but I’ve also read some incredible novels, biographies and more.
2023
The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz
The Line to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
The Twist of a Knife by Anthony Horowitz
With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz
Don’t Stop If You’ve Heard This Before by Peter Turchi
Plains Song by Wright Morris
Speak Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
Am I Alone Here? by Peter Order
Novelist as A Vocation by Haruki Murakami
Women and Letterpress by Claire Battershill
A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Boy by Roald Dahl
The Third Man by Graham Greene
The Making of Another Motion Picture by Tom Hanks
Ladies of Letterpress by Jessica White and Kseniya Thomas
Ways of Escape by Graham Greene
Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White
2022
Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosely
How to Write Like Dostoyevsky by Richard Cohen
So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan
Letters to a Fiction Writer edited by Frederick Busch
Artful Edit by Susan Bell
Writers Workshop by Stephen Koch
Salinger by David shields
Art of Revision: the Last Word by Peter Ho Davies
Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway