To write better, read more-more often, more variety and the same book several times.
Here are some suggestions of books I like to recommend. If you have read some of these,
consider reading them again to see what their impact is and how it is accomplished.
More books to be added over time.
Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out Of Carolina
Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Julia Alvarez
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Ethan Canin
Emperor of the Air
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
Sandra Cisneros
House On Mango Street
Joseph Conrad
Collected Short Stories
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man
William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying
Mary Gordon
Final Payments
Dashiell Hammea
The Maltese Falcon
Ron Hansen
Atticus
Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were On God
Pam Houston
Cowboys Are My Weakness
Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warrior
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
Ross Macdonald
Underground Man
Bharati Mukherjee
Jasmine
Tim O'Brien
In the Lake of the Woods
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
Eudora Welty
Collected Short Stories
Tobias Wolff
This Boy's Life
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