In no particular order: Tipping The Velvet - Sarah Waters The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath I'm Not Scared - Nicollo Ammaniti The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golding Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut The Wrong Boy - Willy Russel Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Sagas: Darren Shann Flowers In The Attic series by V. C Andrews
1 ... The Razor's Edge ~ W. Somerset Maugham 2 ... Up In The Old Hotel ~ Joseph Mitchell 3 ... Soul Shift ~ Mark Ireland 4 ... Standing At The Scratch Line ~ Guy Johnson 5 ... The Price Of The Ticket ~ James Baldwin 6 ... Shogun ~ James Clavell 7 ... A Walk In The Woods ~ Bill Bryson 8 ... Sidhartha ~ Herman Hesse 9 ... Narcissus & Goldmund ~ Herman Hesse 10 ... The Color Of Water ~ James McBride
Not in any order, but.... The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher Maximum Ride by James Patterson (Only the first three) Gaunt's Ghosts by Dan Abnett Gone Series by Michael Grant The Horus Heresy by various authors, with the exception of Descent of Angels, Fallen Angels and Battle for the Abyss Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks Embedded by Dan Abnett Warhammer Heroes by various authors The Pantheon Trilogy by James Lovegrove Also, if anyone who has anything military sci-fi in their list and hasn't read any Gaunt's Ghosts, you are really missing out. Special Mentions: Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick, Reality 36 by Guy Hayley, Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey.
Influential on me as a writer 1. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 2. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 3. Complete works of George Orwell from 1984 – Down and Out in Paris and London 4. V for Vendetta (graphic novel) by Alan Moore 5. The Book of Revelations (KJV) Enjoy the story telling 1. Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling 2. Alice in wonderland series by Lewis Carroll 3. Complete works of J. R. R. Tolkien 4. Grendel by John Gardner 5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
