The Riveting Reading List

Nonfiction

How to Write a Letter by Garrison Keillor

Joyas Voladoras by Brian Doyle

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Tank Sergeant by Ralph Zumbro
Solar Storms by Linda Hogan
Samurai! by Saburo Sakai
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Great Library Series by Rachel Caine

Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie

The Importance of Being Ernest by Oscar Wilde

The Quest for Blank Claveringi by Patricia Highsmith
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Reference Books

You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind

The Grammar Devotional by Mignon Fogarty

Writing Creative Nonfiction by Carole Forche and Philip Gerard

The Best American Essays of the Century edited by Joyce Carol Oates

Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose

Crafting the Personal Essay by Dinty W. Moore

On Writing by Stephen King

Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway