My TBR
Books on my radar
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This is a working document that collates books recommended to me by other readers, as well as books I am curious to read or revisit. It is primarily for my reference, but it may be useful for others.
Novels (unsorted list)
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred
Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (Backlisted)
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk
Toni Morrison, Beloved
T. H. White, Goshawk
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room (Backlisted)
Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock (Backlisted; Tamlin re-telling, comparisons made to Alan Garner)
On the craft of writing
Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done
Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer (rec. Hilary Mantel)
Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way (rec. Hilary Mantel)
Lisa Cron, Story Genius
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Les Edgerton, Hooked
John Gardner, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
Elizabeth George, Write Away
Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing
Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
Margot Livesey, The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing
Priscilla Long, The Writer’s Portable Mentor
John McPhee, Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
David Morley, The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing
Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Carolyn See, Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers
Will Storr, The Science of Storytelling
Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write
John Yorke, Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Lisa Zeidner, Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction
