Memoir
All The Light In the World - Elizabeth Alexander
All The Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
Memorial Days - Geraldine Brooks
Let’s Take the Long Way Home - Gail Caldwell
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Look For Me There - Grieving My Father, Finding Myself -
Luke Russert
The Widower’s Notebook - Jonathan Santlofer
Glass Castle - Jeannette Wallis
History and Politics
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
All the President’s Men - Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodard
In the Garden of Beasts - Eric Larsen
Devil in the White City - Eric Larsen
The Demon of Unrest - Eric Larsen
Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song - David Margolick
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
Unthinkable - Jamie Raskin
Horror
Anything by Stephen King - a few of my favorites: Needful Things, Carrie, Pet Sematary, Night Shift (Short Stories)
My Bookshelf
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." ~Stephen King, On Writing
"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write." ~Annie Proulx
Here are just a few of the many books, old and new, that I love for different reasons. I add to this list from time to time.
Fiction
The Correspondent - Virginia Evans
James - Percival Everett
The Women - Kristin Hannah
The World That We Knew - Alice Hoffman
Kin - Tayari Jones
Dancing Arabs - Sayed Kashua
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane
North Woods - Daniel Mason
The God of the Woods - Liz Midori
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
Close Range: Wyoming Stories - Annie Proulx
Georgia - Dawn Tripp
Self-Help/Personal Development
Quiet - Susan Cain
When Things Fall Apart - Pema Choudron
Peace is Every Step - Thich Nhat Hanh
On Writing - Stephen King
The Creative Habit - Twyla Tharp