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This was me well into the early morning hours, reading "Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty. SO good! So, so good.
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​As a writer or author, one of the first questions people ask you is ‘Who are your favorite authors’? I always struggle to answer this question off the top of my head, because my reading interests are varied and I can never remember the names of the authors on my Kindle.
Today, however, I was preparing for the San Francisco Writers Conference, which I’ll be attending in February (so psyched!). In anticipation of many conversations on this topic with writers, authors, agents and publishers—I sat down and thought about my favorite books and authors. Here’s the ol’ round up: Humor
Tina Fey
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
Paula Hawkins
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 Hornet’s Nest Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood The Woman in Cabin 10 Emma Donoghue Room Nonfiction
Jon Krakauer
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
John Green
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
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
Jon Krakauer
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 What about you?
I’m always looking for my next book to fall in love with. Who are your favorite authors? What books have you read without putting down? Share in the blog comments. ​
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