Michael Mckean

Have You Read Any Of These Books? If So What Would You Rate Those Particular Books? The Sheltering Sky
by Paul Bowles

The Fox in the Attic
by Richard Hughes

Mrs. Bridge
James Salter, by Evan S. Connell

One Hour
by Lillian Smith

The Makioka Sisters
by Junichiro Tanizaki

Blankets
by Craig Thompson

O, Juliet
by Robin Maxwell

My Life in France
by Alex Prud’Homme, Julia Child

I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith

Katherine
Philippa Gregory, by Anya Seton

Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by Angus Easson

The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping, and the Novel
by Alain De Botton

The Lost Diary of Don Juan
by Douglas Carlton Abrams

The School of Essential Ingredients
by Erica Bauermeister

The Magicians
by Lev Grossman

Complaint: From Minor Moans to Principled Protests
by Julian Baggini

The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder
by Stephen Elliott

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainabilityby David Owen

Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small

Generosity: An Enhancement
by Richard Powers

Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading
by Lizzie Skurnick

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
by Sheril Kirshenbaum, Chris Mooney

Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

A Friend of the Family
by Lauren Grodstein

The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter
by Jason Kersten

Sag Harbor
by Colson Whitehead

Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese

Love Is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts
Neal Pollack, edited by Michael Taeckens

Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers

The Help
by Kathryn Stockett

The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
by Megan Marshall

Gone
by Michael Grant

Hunger: A Gone Novel
by Michael Grant

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
by Jeff Kinney

Graceling
by Kristin Cashore

Fire
by Kristin Cashore

Don’t Judge a Girl by Her Cover
by Ally Carter

The Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins

The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean

Little Brother
by Cory Doctorow

Anathem
by Neal Stephenson

Saturn’s Children
by Charles Stross

Zoe’s Tale
by John Scalzi

Rhetorics of Fantasy
by Farah Mendlesohn

What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction
by Paul Kincaid

Hate Mail Will Be Graded
by John Scalzi

Spectrum 15
edited by Arnie Fenner, Cathy Fenner

The Vorkosigan Companion
edited by Lillian S. Carl

Acacia: The War with the Mein
by David Anthony Durham

Thunderer
by Felix Gilman

A Fire Upon The Deep
by Vernor Vinge

The City & the Stars
by Arthur C. Clarke

Dark Is the Sun
by Philip Jose Farmer

Radix
by A.A. Attanasio

Buying Time
by Joe Haldeman

Consider Phlebas
by Iain M. Banks

Great Sky River
by Gregory Benford

Eon
by Greg Bear

Hyperion
by Dan Simmons

The True Game
by Sheri S. Tepper

Wild Seed
by Octavia E. Butler

Carrion Comfort
by Dan Simmons

Master of the Five Magics
by Lyndon Hardy

The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10
by Roger Zelazny

Wizard and Glass
by Stephen King
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss

A Game of Thrones
by George R.R. Martin

The Anubis Gates
by Tim Powers

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Di­az

Sacred Games
by Vikram Chandra

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
by Michael Chabon

Then We Came to the End
by Joshua Ferris

Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson

‘Salem’s Lot
by Stephen King

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
by Stephen King

Bag of Bones
by Stephen King

Insomnia
by Stephen King

Lisey’s Story
by Stephen King

Duma Key
by Stephen King

Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story
by Stephen King

Alpine for You: A Passport to Peril Mystery
by Maddy Hunter

Arson and Old Lace: A Far Wychwood Mystery
by Patricia Harwin

Candy Apple Dead
by Sammi Carter

High Rhymes and Misdemeanors: A Poetic Death Mystery
by Diana Killian

The Merchant of Menace
by Jill Churchill

Scent to Her Grave
by India Ink

Slay Bells
by Kate Kingsbury

Sticks & Scones
by Diane Mott Davidson
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
by Tamar Myers

Vi Agra Falls: A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery
by Mary Daheim

Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
by Jasper Fforde

STEPHEN KING

The Dead Zone
The Green Mile
IT
Tommyknockers
The Dark Tower Novels
Pet Sematary
Christine
Cujo
Different Seasons
Misery
Carrie
Skeleton Crew
The Stand
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon

Edwin of the Iron Shoes
by Marcia Muller

A Is for Alibi
by Sue Grafton

Indemnity Only
by Sara Paretsky

A Trouble of Fools
by Linda Barnes

Baltimore Blues
by Laura Lippman

Goodnight, Irene
by Jan Burke

Postmortem
by Patricia Cornwell

One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich

Rogue Male
by Geoffrey Household, introduction by Victoria Nelson

A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess

Falling Angel
by William Hjortsberg, foreword by Ridley Scott, introduction by James Crumley

The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks

American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis

Mixed Blood: A Thriller
by Roger Smith

Britten and Brulightly
by Hannah Berry
Bury Me Deep
by Megan Abbott

The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris: A Mystery
by Chris Ewan

If the Dead Rise Not
by Philip Kerr

Slammer
by Allan Guthrie

The Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland

Boston Noir
edited by Dennis Lehane

The Way Home
by George Pelecanos

Devil’s Garden
by Ace Atkins

Dope Thief
by Dennis Tafoya

A Quiet Belief in Angels
by R.J. Ellory

Tower
by Reed Farrel Coleman, Ken Bruen

Cover Her Face (1962)
The “Commander Dalgleish” series (14 books)
by P.D. James

From Doon with Death (1964)
The “Inspector Wexford” series (21 books)
by Ruth Rendell

Last Bus to Woodstock (1975)
The “Inspector Morse” series (13 books)
by Colin Dexter

The Man With a Load of Mischief (1981)
The “Inspector Jury” series (21 books)
by Martha Grimes

Knots and Crosses (1987)
The “Inspector Rebus” series (17 books)
by Ian Rankin

A Great Deliverance (1988)
The “Inspector Lynley” series (15 books)
by Elizabeth George
A Share in Death (1993)
The “Superintendent Kincaid/Inspector James” series (12 books)
by Deborah E. Crombie

A Test of Wills (1996)
The “Inspector Rutledge” series (11 books)
by Charles Todd

A Catered Halloween: A Mystery with Recipes
by Isis Crawford

Death of a Trickster: A Peggy Jean Turner Mystery
by Kate Borden

The Fallen Man: A Joe Leaphorn Novel
by Tony Hillerman

Hallowe’en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Agatha Christie

Skeleton Key: A Gregor Demarkian Novel
by Jane Haddam

Witches’ Bane: A China Bayles Mystery
by Susan Wittig Albert

Blind Submission
by Debra Ginsberg

The Book of Air and Shadows
by Michael Gruber

The Secret of Lost Things
by Sheridan Hay

The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves

The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield

People of the Book
by Geraldine Brooks

Three Coffins
by John Dickson Carr

The Judas Window: A Sir Henry Merrivale Mystery
Tom Schantz, Enid Schantz, by Carter Dickson
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie

The Lamp of God
by Ellery Queen

The Problem of Cell 13
by Jacques Futrelle

The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers

Holy Disorders
by Edmund Crispin

The Mystery Of The Yellow Room
by Gaston Leroux

The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree
by Stuart Palmer

Death on Milestone Buttress
by Glyn Carr

The Christening Day Murder
by Lee Harris

The Draining Lake
by Arnaldur Indridason

Dragon Bones: A Red Princess Mystery
by Lisa See

In a Dry Season
by Peter Robinson

On Beulah Height
by Reginald Hill

Out of the Deep I Cry
by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Desperate Characters
by Paula Fox

Turn, Magic Wheel
by Dawn Powell

84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff

Family Happiness
by Laurie Colwin

The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton

The Emperor’s Children
by Claire Messud

Dune
by Frank Herbert

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein

I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
by Arthur C. Clarke

Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson

Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card

The Borrowers
by Mary Norton

Catkin
by Antonia Barber, illustrated by P.J. Lynch

Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift

Hob and the Goblins
by William Mayne

The Indian in the Cupboard Trilogy
by Lynne Reid Banks

The Littles
by John Peterson, illustrated by Roberta Carter Clark

The Minpins
by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Patrick Benson

Mistress Masham’s Repose
by T. H. White

Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby

The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje

Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk

The Godfather
by Mario Puzo

High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby

Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

Little Children
by Tom Perrotta

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien

Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by Chuck Palahniuk, illustrated by Chuck Palahniuk

Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

The Shining
by Stephen King

The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by W. W. Denslow

Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates

The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro

Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell

To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee

Artemis Fowl Boxed Set
by Eoin Colfer

Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism
by Georgia Byng

The Amazing Flight of Darius Frobisher
by Bill Harley

Tunnels
by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams

Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy, illustrated by Tom Percival

Chet Gecko’s Big Box of Mystery: Three Hilarious Capers: The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse, The Mystery of Mr. Nice, and Farewell, My Lunchbag
by Bruce Hale

The Secret of Stoneship Woods
by Rick Barba
Warriors: The New Prophecy Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6
by Erin Hunter

The Lost Years of Merlin
by T. A. Barron

The Warrior Heir
by Cinda Williams Chima

Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld, illustrated by Keith Thompson

The Angel Experiment
by James Patterson

Maximum Ride
by jamse Patterson

The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by Glending Olson, V. A. Kolve

Garden of Eden
by Ernest Hemingway

Pimp: The Story of My Life
by “Iceberg Slim”

Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction
by Henry James

Othello
by William Shakespeare

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen

The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
by Lajos Egri

The Architecture of Drama: Plot, Character, Theme, Genre and Style
by Joe & Robin Stockdale, David Letwin

The Library at Night
by Alberto Manguel
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
by Roy Blount Jr.

On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World
by Nicholas Humez, Alexander Humez

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English
by John McWhorter

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
by Ammon Shea

The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers
by Betsy Lerner

A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction – Revised Edition
by Jack Hodgins

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott

Revision And Self-Editing
by James Scott Bell

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert Mckee
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
by Francine Prose

On Moral Fiction
by John Gardner

The Art of the Novel
by Milan Kundera

Techniques of the Selling Writer
by Dwight V. Swain

Solutions for Writers: Practical Craft Techniques for Fiction and Non-fiction
by Sol Stein

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
by Ray Bradbury

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
by Dave King, Renni Browne, illustrated by George Booth

Elements of Writing Fiction – Characters & Viewpoint
by Orson Scott Card

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
by Flannery O’Connor, edited by Robert Fitzgerald, Sally Fitzgerald

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by Natalie Goldberg

Write Away : One Novelist’s Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
by Elizabeth George

The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction
by John Dufresne
A Broom of One’s Own: Words on Writing, Housecleaning, and Life
by Nancy Peacock

Becoming a Writer
by Dorothea Brande

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers
by John Gardner

Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between
Marie Arana, edited by Carole Burns

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel
by Diana Wynne Jones

The Romantic Manifesto
by Ayn Rand

The Tolkien Reader
by J.R.R. Tolkien

How to Write While You Sleep
by Elizabeth Irvin Ross

On Writer’s Block
by Victoria Nelson

Dare to Be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction
by Leonard Bishop

On Becoming a Novelist
by John Gardner

This Year You Write Your Novel
by Walter Mosley

This Year You Write Your Novel
by Walter Mosley

Before I Die
by Jenny Downham

The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman

The Color Purple
by Alice Walker

Uncle Bobby’s Wedding
by Sarah S. Brannen