Here are some books I think are vital to the writing process:

Stephen King - On Writing

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

Elizabeth George - Write Away

Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird

Alexandra Sokoloff - Story Structure Basics

Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey

Christopher Vogler - The Writer's Journey

Betsy Lerner - The Forest for the Trees

Stephen Pressfield - The War of Art

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow

Winifred Gallagher - Rapt

Twyla Tharp - The Creative Habit

William Powers - Hamlet's Blackberry

DEEP WORK by Cal Newport

And these are my favorites:

Classics

AGAMEMNON by Aeschylus

ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Jane Austen

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas

THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE by C.S. Lewis

Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th Edition

1984 by George Orwell

THE REPUBLIC by Plato

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde

THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN by Virginia Woolf

Contemporaries

EATING THE CHESHIRE CAT by Helen Ellis

THE PARIS WIFE by Paula McClain

THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt

Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games

PANIC by Jeff Abbott

THE BLACK WIDOW by Daniel Silva

TRANSFER OF POWER by Vince Flynn

THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY by Karleen Koen

HERE BE DRAGONS by Sharon Kay Penman

UPROOTED by Naomi Novik

Julie Kagawa - The Iron King

THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean M. Auel

THE COVE by Catherine Coulter

CRITICAL SPACE by Greg Rucka

EVERY DEAD THING by John Connolly

MIND PREY by John Sanford

THE ENEMY by Lee Child

An Ode to Hemingway

A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway

THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway

A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY SHORT STORIES

Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon

OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon

DRAGONFLY IN AMBER by Diana Gabaldon

VOYAGER by Diana Gabaldon

DRUMS OF AUTUMN by Diana Gabaldon

THE FIERY CROSS by Diana Gabaldon

A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES by Diana Gabaldon

AN ECHO IN THE BONE by Diana Gabaldon

WRITTEN IN MY HEART'S OWN BLOOD by Diana Gabaldon

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE by J.K. Rowling

HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS by J.K. Rowling

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K. Rowling

HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE by J.K. Rowling

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE

HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Deborah Harkness

SHADOW OF NIGHT by Deborah Harkness

THE BOOK OF LIFE by Deborah Harkness

The Grisha series by Leigh Bardugo

SHADOW AND BONE by Leigh Bardugo

SIEGE AND STORM by Leigh Bardugo

RUIN AND RISING by Leigh Bardugo

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