read, reread, and recommended
- Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
- Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
to read or reread
- The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell by John Crawford
- A Fighter’s Heart by Sam Sheridan
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock
- The Bone Forest by Robert Holdstock
- The Hollowing by Robert Holdstock
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
- Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- What Dreams May Come by Richard Mathson
