Today, however, I was preparing for the San Francisco Writers Conference, which Iâll be attending in February (so psyched!). In anticipation of many conversations on this topic with writers, authors, agents and publishersâI sat down and thought about my favorite books and authors.
Hereâs the olâ round up:
Humor
Bossypants
Mindy Kaling
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
Why Not Me?
Amy Schumer
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
Raquel D'Apice
Welcome to the Club: 100 Parenting Milestones You Never Saw Coming
Kate Siegel
Mother, Can You Not?
Fiction
The Girl on The Train
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Flight Behavior
Stieg Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornetâs Nest
Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood
The Woman in Cabin 10
Emma Donoghue
Room
Nonfiction
Into the Wild
Into Thin Air
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Young Adult
The Fault in our Stars
Looking for Alaska
Paper Towns
An Abundance of Katherines
Stephenie Meyer
The Twilight series
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games series
Classics
The Great Gatsby
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Books on my reading list for 2017
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air
J.D. Vance
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Liane Moriarty
Big Little Lies
Paula Hawkins
Into the Water