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RECOMMENDED READS
SPRING 2023

Inspirations + Challenges for a Writer's Soul

Craft Analysis:

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

On Writing by Stephen King

Shimmering Images: A Handy Little Guide to Writing Memoir by Lisa Dale Norton


Short Stories:

A Corpse Walks Into a Bar by Lesley Bannatyne

A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri

Caviar by T.C. Boyle

Ghosts by Edith Wharton

"M" is for Magic by Neil Gaiman

Mother Tongue by Amy Tan

St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

The Best of Me by David Sedaris

The Ghost Birds by Karen Russell

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Poetry:

Devotions by Mary Oliver

The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou

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Longer Works:

Dune by Frank Herbert

Sherlock Holmes Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle

Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

She Never Told Me About the Ocean by Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Theft by Finding by David Sedaris

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

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