What we read is as important as what we write. Sometimes we read just to relax, others to absorb how "the pros" do it. Below you will find a few of our favorites.
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"Crime"
Diane Mott Davidson:
Elmore Leonard "Out of Sight"
Carl Hiaasen, "Basket Case"
"Fantasy"
Clive Barker, "Imajica"
Guy Gavriel Kay, "Tigana"
C.S. Lewis, "The Chronicles of Narnia"
Anne Rice, The Mummy or "Ramses the Damned"
J.R.R. Tolkein, "The Hobbit"
J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings Parts I through III
Tad Williams, "The Dragonbone Chair"
"General Fiction"
William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
Robert MacLiam Wilson, "Eureka Street"
"Historical"
W.Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear, The First North Americans Series
"Horror"
Books by Clive Barker:
The Damnation Game
Sacrament
The Hellbound Heart
Books by Stephen King:
From a Buick 8
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Green Mile
Bag of Bones
Hearts in Atlantis
Dreamcatcher
Eyes of the Dragon
The Dark Tower Series
The Talisman (with Peter Straub)
Black House (with Peter Straub)
Thinner (as Richard Bachman)
Mystery & Detective Fiction
Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum Mysteries:
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Three to Get Deadly
Romance
Jennifer Crusie "Welcome to Temptation"
Daphne DuMaurier, "Rebecca"
"Vampire Fiction"
Laurell K. Hamilton, The Anita Blake Series
Ann Rice, The Vampire Chronicles
Western
Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy:
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
Cities of the Plain
Larry McMurtry, "Lonesome Dove"
Classics
Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"
Edith Wharton, "The Age of Innocence"
Edith Wharton, "The House of Mirth"
"Children's"
Clive Barker, "The Thief of Always"
Meg Cabot, "The Princess Diaries"
Eoin Colfer, "Artemis Fowl"
S.E. Hinto, "Rumble Fish"
C.S. Lewis, "The Chronicles of Narnia"
J.K. Rowling, The Harry Potter Books