Craft/Criticism Books
The Art of Subtext by Charles Baxter
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
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
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
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
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson (nonfiction)
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
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
The Walls Around Us by Nova Red Suma
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti (YA/adult crossover)
The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones
Adult Literary Fiction/Poetry
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
Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot
Ten Colloquies by Erasmus
The Hapless Child by Edward Corey
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
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
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!)
