FICTION BOOKS

Recommendations taken from 5 Books You MUST Read Before You Die and 5 Underrated Books You Think Deserve More Attention

• It by Stephen King
• Generica by Will Ferguson
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Youth In Revolt by C.D. Payne
• Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Exodus by Leon Uris
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Elegance of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer
• The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Brothers K by David James Duncan
• The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
• Transmetropolitan Series by Warren Ellis
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
• Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago
• The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
• Lord of The Flies by William Golding
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genuis by Dave Eggars
• The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingslover
• Anything by Kathleen Woodiwiss
• Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi

NON-FICTION BOOKS

Recommendations taken from 5 Books You MUST Read Before You Die (Non-Fiction)

• You Were Born For This: 7 Keys to A Life of Predictable Miracles by Bruce Wilkinson
• Local Wonders by Ted Kooser
• My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
• Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocast by Immaculee Ilibagiza
• Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
• Stiff by Mary Roach
• Ava’s Man by Rick Bragg
• All Over But The Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
• The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
• 1 Dead In The Attic by Chris Rose
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
• Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

GOOD BOOKS FOR NIGHT READING

Recommendations taken from 5 Books To Read During Long, Sleepless Nights

• Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich
• Anything by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman
• Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
• Strange Happenings by Avi
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Grimm’s Fairytales by The Brother’s Grimm
• Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
• The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
• The Lazarus Effect by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
• The Huanting of Alaizable Cray by Chris Wooding

BOOKS FOR STUDYING CHARACTER

Recommendations taken from 5 Characters You MUST Meet Before You Die

• Up Country by Nelson Demille
• Anything by Michael Connelly
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
• Notes From The Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Milagro Bean Field War by John Nicholis
• Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Sherlock Homes by Sir Athur Conan Doyle
• No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
• Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

PLAYS

Recommendations from 5 Plays You MUST Read Before You Die

• Othello by William Shakespeare
• Hamlet by William Shakesperae
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller
• A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
• Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
• Wit by Margaret Edison
• A Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

BOOKS ON WRITING

Recommendations taken from 5 Books You MUST Read Before You Die (Non-Fiction), The Book That Every Beginning Writer Needs to Read, and The Book That Every Writer Editing Their Book Needs to Read

• Story by Robert McKee
• Your Writing Coach by Jurgen Wolff
• How to Write A Damn Good Novel, II by James N. Frey
• Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell
• The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
• Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
• Double Your Creative Power by S. L. Stebel
• The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters by Wendy Burt-Thomas
• Book Proposals That Sell by W. Terry Whalin
• How To Write Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
• Characters and Viewpoints by Orson Scott Card