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Books Every Author Should Read

Reading on a daily basis allows writers to learn new styles, words and find inspiration from some of the greatest writers of all time. If you aren't finding time on a daily basis to read even a few pages, your writing will almost certainly suffer.
Now there are a lot of books for you to choose from, many of which will help you become a better writer, but there are a select few that truly stand out. These are the books every author should read sometime in their life.
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (Jane Smiley)
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
1
Jane Smiley
About Writing (Samuel R. Delany)
About Writing
2
Samuel R. Delany
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
3
Mark Twain
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
4
L.M. Montgomery
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
5
Leo Tolstoy
Becoming a Writer (Dorothea Brande)
Becoming a Writer
6
Dorothea Brande
Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott)
Bird by Bird
7
Anne Lamott
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
8
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
9
J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web
10
E.B. White
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Maya Angelou)
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
11
Maya Angelou
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
12
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
13
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
14
James Joyce
The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White)
The Elements of Style
15
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
16
Jane Austen
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
17
Ernest Hemingway
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
18
Hunter S. Thompson
The Garden Party (Katherine Mansfield)
The Garden Party
19
Katherine Mansfield
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
20
Flannery O'Connor
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
21
John Steinbeck
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
22
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
23
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
24
William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
25
J.K. Rowling
Hocus Pocus (Kurt Vonnegut)
Hocus Pocus
26
Kurt Vonnegut
How Fiction Works
How Fiction Works
27
If You Want to Write (Brenda Ueland)
If You Want to Write
28
Brenda Ueland
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
29
Marcel Proust
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
30
David Foster Wallace
Letters to a Young Novelist (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Letters to a Young Novelist
31
Mario Vargas Llosa
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Letters to a Young Poet
32
Rainer Maria Rilke
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
33
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
34
William Golding
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
35
Gustave Flaubert
The Martian (Andy Weir)
The Martian
36
Andy Weir
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
37
George Eliot
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
38
Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
39
Virginia Woolf
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
40
Edgar Allan Poe
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