If you want to write better, read everything and anything.
- A Farewell to Arms de Ernest Hemingway
- Victory de Joseph Conrad
- Guerrillas de V.S. Naipaul
- Down and Out in Paris and London de George Orwell
- Wonderland de Joyce Carol Oates
- Wuthering Heights de Emily Brontë
- The Good Soldier de Ford Madox Ford
- One Hundred Years of Solitude de Gabriel Garcia Márquez
- Crime and Punishment de Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Appointment in Samarra de John O’Hara
- The Executioner’s Song de Norman Mailer
- Washington Square, Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw de +Henry James
- Speedboat de Renata Adler
- Go Tell It on the Mountain de James Baldwin
- Notes of a Native Son de James Baldwin
- The Berlin Stories de Christopher Isherwood
- Collected Poems de Robert Lowell
- Collected Poems de W.H. Auden
- The Collected Poems de Wallace Stevens
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