It's absolutely AMAZING. I recommend this book to anyone, even if they don't write themselves. It's way more than just a book about writing. And, in addition to reading this book, which I believe has helped me learn for my own wrting endeavors, I hope to read all of Stephen King's writing list (along with a few of his own novels, including "1408" which I watch the movie of and didn't know he wrote, and "Misery" the story that I find intriquing)..
Stephen King's book list:
1. "A Perfect Crime" by Peter Abrahams
2. "Lights Out" by Peter Abrahams
3. "Presure Drop" by Peter Abrahams
4. "Revolution #9" by Peter Abrahams
5. "A Death in the Family" by James Agee
6. "Lives of the Monster Dogs" by Kirsten Bakis
7. "Regeneration" by Pat Barker
8. "The Eye in the Door" by Pat Barker
9. "The Ghost Road" by Pat Barker
10. "In The Night Season" by Richard Bausch
11. "The Intruder" by Peter Blauner
12. "The Sheltering Sky" by Paul Bowles
13. "The Tortilla Curtain" by T. Coraghessan Boyle
14. "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
15 "Thank You For Smoking" by Christopher Buckley
16. "Where I'm Calling From" by Raymond Carver
17. "Werewolves in Their Youth" by Michael Chabon
18. "Latitude Zero" by Windsory Chorlton
19. "The Poet" by Michael Connelly
20. "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
21. "Family Values" by K.C. Constantine
22. "Underwold" by Don DeLillo
23. "Cathedral" by Nelson DeMille
24. "The Gold Coast" by Nelson DeMille
25. "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens
26. "Common Carnage" by Stephen Dobyns
27. "The Church of Dead Girls" by Stephen Dobyns
28. "The Women Who Walked into Doors" by Roddy Doyle
29. "The Dick Gibson Show" by Stanley Elkin
31. "The Beach" by Alex Garland
32. "Deception on His Mind" by Elizabeth Gearge
33. "Gravity" by Tess Gerritsen
35. "Furnace" by Muriel Gray
36. "A Gun for Sale" (aka "This Gun for Hire") by Graham Greene
37. "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene
38. "The Fifties" by David Halberstam
39. "Why Sinatra Matters" by Pete Hamill
40. "Hannibal" by Thomas Harris
41. "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf
42. "Smilla's Sense of Snow" by Peter Hoeg
43. "Dirty White Boys" by Stephen Hunter
44. "A Firing Offense" by David Ignatius
45. "A Widow for One Year" by John Irving
46. "The Tooth Fairy" by Graham Joyce
47. "The Devil's Own Work" by Alan Judd
48. "Good Enough to Dream" by Roger Kahn
49. "The Liars' Club" by Mary Karr
50. "Right to Life" by Jack Ketchum
51. "Survivor" by Tabitha King
52. "The Sky in the Water" (unpublished as of the time that "On Writing" was published) by Tabitha King
53. "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
54. "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
56. "Our Guys" by Bernard Lefkowitz
57. "The Ignored" by Bentley Little
58. "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" by Norman Maclean
59. "The Moon and Sixpence" by W. Somerset Maugham
60. "Cities of the Plain" by Cormac McCarthy
61. "The Crossing" by Cormac McCarthy
62. "Charming Billy" by Alice McDermott
63. "Ancient Shores" by Jack McDevitt
64. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
65. "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan
66."The Cement Garden" by Ian McEwan
67. "Dead Man's Walk" by Larry McMurtry
68. "Zeke and Ned" by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
69. "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller
70. "Zombie" by Carol Joyce Oates
71. "In The Lake of the Woods" by Tim O'Brein
72. "Top Speed Queen" bt Stewart O'Nan
73. "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje
74. "No Safe Place" by Richard North Patterson
75. "Freedomland" by Richard Price
76. "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" by Annie Proulx
77. "The Shipping News" by Annie Proulx
78. "One True Thing" by Anna Quindlen
79. "A Sight for Sore Eyes" by Ruth Rendell
80. "Waiting" by Frank M. Robinson
84. "Mohawk" by Richard Russo
85. "Reservation Road" by John Burnham Schwartz
86. "A Suitable Boy" by Vikram Seth
87. "The Young Lions" by Irwin Shaw
88. "The Crater" by Richard Slotkin
89. "The Illusionist" by Dinitia Smith
90. "Men in Black" by Scott Spencer
91. "Joe Hill" by Wallace Stegner
92. "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
93. "A Patchwork Planet" by Anne Tyler
94. "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut
95. "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
96. "The Ax" by Donald E. Westlake
Read Beautifully,
--Blair
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