My Favorite Books

1. On Writing by Stephen King
2. The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White
3. On Writing Well by William K. Zinsser
4. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
5. The Comic Toolbox by John Vorhaus
6. Writer’s Market
7. The Spooky Art by Norman Mailer
8. The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
9. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
10. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
11. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
12. Write the Perfect Book Proposal by Jeff Herman
13. Making a Good Script Great by Linda Seger
14. Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir by William Zinsser
15. Walking on Alligators: A Book of Meditations for Writers by Susan Shaughnessy

1. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
3. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
5. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
6. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
7. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
8. Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
9. Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
10. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
11. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
12. Calvin & Hobbes – Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons by Bill Watterson
13. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
14. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemmingway
15. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Michio Kaku
2. Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James A. Miller and Tom Shales
3. Enchiridion by Epictetus
4. Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
5. Beyond Good And Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
6. The Art of War by Sun Tsu
7. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
8. The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
9. People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
10. Be Here Now by Ram Dass
11. Love’s Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
12. The Apology by Plato
13. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
14. Naked by David Sedaris
15. Games People Play by Eric Berne