Maya Angelou
Her memoirs
Richard Bach
Illusions: Adventures of a
Reluctant Messiah
Elizabeth Cary The Lady Falkland
The Tragedy of Mariam
Bryce Courtenay
The Power of One
Emily Dickinson
Poems
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird
George RR Martin
A Song of Ice and Fire series
Edgar Allan Poe
All of his works and we share
the same birthday.
William Freakin’ Shakespeare
Need I repeat, William Freakin’
Shakespeare? Side note, Elizabeth Cary inspired him.
R.L. Stine
Goosebumps were the first books
I read.
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit and Lord of the
Rings
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Unknown Author (Beowulf)
Although seeing the films, I’d
never read the books. Then I stumbled upon it when my English professor at the
University of Houston, John McNamara, who translated the novel made the
book a required reading. Now it’s one of my favorite tales.
John Updike
The Lottery
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five. Honestly,
I only kind of liked the book. The main character’s craziness is what appeals
to me. There’s no narrator like him.
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Edward Lewis Wallant
The Pawnbroker
Margery Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit. Inspired
my first story: The Golden Bunny.