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Books Every Author Should Read - Page 2

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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Nine Stories (J.D. Salinger)
Nine Stories
41
J.D. Salinger
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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George Orwell
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
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Jack Kerouac
On Writing (Stephen King)
On Writing
44
Stephen King
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
45
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary
46
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
47
Vladimir Nabokov
A Perfect Crime (Peter Abrahams)
A Perfect Crime
48
Peter Abrahams
Reading Like a Writer (Francine Prose)
Reading Like a Writer
49
Francine Prose
Runaway (Alice Munro)
Runaway
50
Alice Munro
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
51
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
52
William Faulkner
The Stand (Stephen King)
The Stand
53
Stephen King
Steering the Craft (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Steering the Craft
54
Ursula K. Le Guin
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
55
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
56
Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
57
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
58
Virginia Woolf
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
59
James Joyce
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
60
Leo Tolstoy
The War of Art (Steven Pressfield)
The War of Art
61
Steven Pressfield
Why I Write
Why I Write
62
Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg)
Writing Down the Bones
63
Natalie Goldberg
The Writing Life (Annie Dillard)
The Writing Life
64
Annie Dillard
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper
65
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)
Zen in the Art of Writing
66
Ray Bradbury
A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
A Moveable Feast
67
Ernest Hemingway
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
68
Maya Angelou
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
69
Richard Wright
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
70
Margaret Atwood
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
71
Ralph Ellison
The Real Story of Ah-Q
The Real Story of Ah-Q
72
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
73
Marilynne Robinson
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories
74
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
75
Haruki Murakami
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