I used to have a mammoth, totally unmanageable list of young adult books, graphic novels, novels for adults, and non-fiction here. The truth is that I read so much that I can't keep the list current so from now on I'm sticking with my all-time fiction favourites (I hardly ever reread anything but some of these I've even read twice!), a smattering of graphic novels I really enjoyed and a brief list of recommended reading for writers. Oh, and I couldn't resist including a jumble of young adult authors who are writing some really great stuff!

W. P. Kinsella: Shoeless Joe

J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey

Wilton Barnhardt: Emma Who Saved My Life

Julian Barnes: A History of The World in Ten and a Half Chapters

Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride

Mary Lawson: Crow Lake

John Irving: A Prayer For Owen Meany

Ann Beattie: Chilly Scenes of Winter

Ian McEwan: Atonement

William Benton: Deaf Elephants

John Wyndham: The Chrysalids

Jessica Abel: La Perdida

Charles Burns: Black Hole

Daniel Clowes: Ghost World

Debbie Drechsler: The Summer of Love

Bruce Mutard: The Bunker

Brian Lee O'Malley: Lost at Sea

Michel Rabagliati: Paul Moves Out and Paul Has a Summer Job

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1 and Persepolis 2

Mariko Tamaki: Skim

Craig Thompson: Blankets

Alex Epstein: Crafty Screenwriting

Sherry Garland: Writing for Young Adults

Natalie Goldberg: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Robert Brewer, editor: 2009 Writer's Market Online

Noah Lukeman: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

Donald Maass: Writing The Breakout Novel

Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2009

Judy Mandell: Book Editors Talk to Writers

Robert McKee: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Scott McCloud: Making Comics

Jack Neff, Don Prues, Glenda Tennant Neff: Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript

Alice Pope, editor: Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market 2009

Michael Seidman: The Complete Guide to Editing Your Fiction

Barry Turner, editor: The Writer's Handbook 2009

Laurie Halse Anderson Jay Asher Coe Booth Kate Cann Carol Clippinger Rachel Cohn E.M. Crane Tanita S. Davis Sarah Dessen Jenny Downham Nick Earls Alex Flinn E.R. Frank Keith Gray John Green Brent Hartinger S.A. Harazin Simmone Howell Jennifer Richard Jacobson A.M. Jenkins Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson Varian Johnson Patrick Jones Jo Knowles Barry Lyga Chris Lynch David Levithan E. Lockhart Sarra Manning Melina Marchetta Catherine Gilbert Murdock Walter Dean Myers Blake Nelson R.A. Nelson Joyce Carol Oates Mary Pearson Susan Beth Pfeffer Meg Rosoff Laura Ruby Carrie Ryan Alex Sanchez Lisa Schroeder Elizabeth Scott Cynthia Leitich Smith Sonya Sones Heather Duffy Stone Courtney Summers Jenny Valentine Siobhan Vivian Laura Wiess Garret Freymann-Weyr Rita Williams-Garcia Ellen Wittlinger Virginia Euwer Wolff David Yoo Sara Zarr Lara Zeises

Fav Movies Fav Songs Other Favs