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. Accompanying the list is this explanation: 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years, the period during which I wrote The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Hearts in Atlantis, On Writing, and the as-yet-unpublished From a Buick Eight.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 some way or other, I suspect each book in the list had an influence on the books I wrote. As you scan this list, please remember that I’m not Oprah and this isn’t my book club. These are the ones that worked for me, that’s all. But you could do worse, and a good many of these might show you some new ways of doing your work. Even if they don’t, they’re apt to entertain you. They certainly entertained me. Stephen Kings On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftPeter Abrahams, A Perfect Crime Peter Abrahams, Lights Out Peter Abrahams, Pressure Drop Peter Abrahams,Revolution #9 James Agee, A Death in the Family Kirsten Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs Pat Barker, Regeneration Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door Pat Barker, The Ghost Road Richard Bausch, In the Night Season Peter Blauner, The Intruder Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking Raymond Carver, Where I’m Calling From Michael Chabon, Werewolves in Their Youth Windsor Chorlton, Latitude Zero Michael Connelly, The Poet Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Project Gutenberg) K.C. Constantine, Family Values Don DeLillo, Underworld Nelson DeMille, Cathedral Nelson DeMille, The Gold Coast Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Project Gutenberg) Stephen Dobyns, Common Carnage Stephen Dobyns, The Church of Dead Girls Roddy Doyle, The Woman Who Walked into Doors Stanely Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying Alex Garland, The Beach Elizabeth George, Deception on His Mind Tess Gerritsen, Gravity William Golding, Lord of the Flies Muriel Gray, Furnace Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (aka This Gun for Hire) Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana David Halberstam, The Fifties Pete Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters Thomas Harris, Hannibal Kent Haruf, Plainsong Peter Hoeg, Smilla’s Sense of Snow Stephen Hunter, Dirty White Boys David Ignatius, A Firing Offense John Irving, A Widow for One Year Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy Alan Judd, The Devil’s Own Work Roger Kahn, Good Enough to Dream Mary Karr, The Liars’ Club Jack Ketchum, Right to Life Tabitha King, Survivor Tabitha King, The Sky in the Water Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Guys Bentley Little, The Ignored Maclean, Norman: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Maugham, W. Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence (Project Gutenberg) Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes Alice McDermott, Charming Billy Jack McDevitt, Ancient Shores Ian McEwan, Enduring Love Ian McEwan, The Cement Garden Larry McMurtry, Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Zeke and Ned Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz Joyce Carol Oates, Zombie Tim O’Brien, In the Lake of the Woods Stewart O’Nan, The Speed Queen Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient Richard North Patterson, No Safe Place Richard Price, Freedomland Annie Proulx, Close Range: Wyoming Stories Annie Proulx, The Shipping News Anna Quindlen, One True Thing Ruth Rendell, A Sight for Sore Eyes Frank M. Robinson, Waiting J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Richard Russo, Mohawk John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy Irwin Shaw, The Young Lions Richard Slotkin, The Crater Dinitia Smith, The Illusionist Scott Spencer, Men in Black Wallace Stegner, Joe Hill Donna Tartt, The Secret History Anne Tyler, A Patchwork Planet Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited Donald Westlake, The Ax
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