Reading/ Recommended
These are all books I’ve read since January 1st 2017 that I thought were good. I don’t have time to do extensive reviews, although you might find my thoughts about whatever I happen to be reading on the Blog page of this website. That said, if it ‘made the cut’ it means I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone. So if you’re at a loss for what to read next…
Key: (F)=Fiction (NF)=Non Fiction (C)=Classic (OW)=On Writing (P)=Philosophy/Self Help (S)=Short Stories
Currently Reading
Prisoner of Heaven – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Writing the Breakout Novel – Donald Maas (OW)
The Original Grimm’s Fairy Tales (S)
The Damnation Game – Clive Barker (F)
Books I liked:
Bird Box – Josh Malerman (F)
Flow – Mihaly Csiksentmihalyi (P)
Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning (NF)
Hellbent – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Mistborn #1 – Brandon Sanderson (F)
The Fireman – Joe Hill (F)
The Emotional Craft of Fiction – Donald Maas (OW)
The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang (NF)
Tribe – Sebastian Junger (P)
Nowhere Man – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Orphan X – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes (F)
The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang (NF)
Tribe – Sebastian Junger (P)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitzen (C)
Dracula – Bram Stoker (C)
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain (NF)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (C)
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (F)
Where Nightmares Come From – (Various) (OW)
Reality is Broken – Jane McGonigal (P)
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom (F)
NOS4R2 – Joe Hill (F)
The Nightrunners – Joe Landsdale (F)
Influence – Robert Cialdini (P)
Dune – Frank Herbert (F)
Discipline Equals Freedom – Jocko Willink (P)
Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg (OW)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson (P)
Musashi – Eiji Yoshikawa (F)
Writing Tools – Roy Clark (OW)
How to Stop Worrying and Live – Dale Carnegie (P)
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie (P)
Junky – William S. Burroughs (F)
Midnight Sun – Ramsey Campbell (F)
Ancestor – Scott Sigler (F)
I was Blind but now I see – James Altucher (P)
How to Win Friends and Influence People (P)
The Martian – Andy Weir (F)
Panzram – Journal of Murder (NF)
Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Watcher in the Shadows – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Nocturnal – Scott Sigler (F)
Madam Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (C)
Bird By Bird – Ann Lamott (OW)
Permutation City – Greg Egan (F)
The Uses of Enchantment – Bruno Bettleheim (OW)
Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (F)
The View from the Cheap Seats – Neil Gaiman (OW)
The Passage – Justin Cronin (F)
The Warrior Ethos – Steven Pressfield (OW)
The Knowledge – Steven Pressfield (F)
Letters to Lucilius – Seneca (P)
Killing Rommel – Steven Pressfield (F)
Mothertongue – Bill Bryson (NF)
Wild – Cheryl Strayed (P)
Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman (F)
Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink (P)
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare – Peter Ackroyd (NF)
Danse Macabre – Stephen King (NF)
Watership Down – Richard Adams (C)
If This is a Man – Primo Levi (P)
Night Music – John Connolly (F)
The Writing Life – Annie Dillard (OW)
Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari (NF)