Writing as a full time career means reading – alot. The sage of all fiction writers, Stephen King, suggests reading 10,000 words for every 1,000 written. I have found that one of the best pieces of advice On Writing I ever received. Here is a list of what I’ve read so far in 2024. Check back often for updates.
- Tom Clancy: Red Winter – Marc Cameron
- Plot and Structure – James Scott Bell (Excellent advice for elements of structure)
- The Berets – W.E.B. Griffin (I’m re-reading The Brotherhood of War series. I read them first thirty years ago while stationed in Vicenza Italy).
- Top Secret – W.E.B. Griffin
- 11.22.63 – Stephen King (Great example of first person narrative – he’s just a master)
- The Generals – W.E.B. Griffin
- The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
- The New Breed – W.E.B. Griffin
- Teeth of the Tiger – Tom Clancy
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett (Crusty, staccato dialog)
- The Twelfth of August – W. R. Morris
- The Art of Memoir – Mary Karr
- Undercover – Damian Marrett
- Promise Point – Harriet Sulcer
- Under and Alone – William Queen
- Gone for Good– Harlan Coban
- Intensity – Dean Koontz
- Harbour Nocturne – Joseph Wambaugh (Nobody writes better cop fiction)
- The Brothers karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Inside Delta Force – Eric Haney
- 1776 – David McCullough
- Founding Brothers – Joseph J. Ellis
cldouglasbooks 