Craft/Criticism Books
Mimesis by Erich Auerbach
The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter
The Dialogic Imagination by M.M. Bakhtin
Character and Viewpoint by Orson Scott Card
Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner
The Sense of an Ending by Frank Kermode
On Writing by Stephen King
The Magic Words by Cheryl Klein
The Severed Head by Julia Kristeva
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Leguin
The Hidden Adult by Perry Nodelman
The Fiction Writer’s Workshop by Josip Novakovich
Wonderbook by Jeff Vandermeer
Writing with Pictures Uri Shulevitz
Middle Grade Fiction
Goblin Secrets by William Alexander
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
Circus Mirandus by Cassie Beasley
Doll Bones by Holly Black
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
Heap House by Edward Carey
Flora and Ulysses by Cate DiCamillo
The Search for Wondla by Toni Diterlizzi
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
The Crowfield Curse by Pat Walsh
The Book Thief by Marcus Zuzak
YA Fiction
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation by M.T. Anderson
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (YA/adult crossover)
Still Life with Tornado by A. S. King
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (YA/adult crossover)
The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
YA Non-Fiction
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson
The Unwanted by Don Brown
We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
Hidden Girl by Shyima Hall
Adult Literary Fiction/Poetry/ Essays
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth
The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Together and By Ourselves by Alex Dimitrov (poetry)
The Creationists by E. L. Doctorow (essays)
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
Ten Colloquies by Erasmus
The Hapless Child by Edward Gorey
Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Earthsea Series by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Upstream by Mary Oliver (essays)
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Ridiculous Light by Valencia Robin (poetry)
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
(More to come!)
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