Joining in a bit late...because Deb Nance said I could. lol Thanks, Deb!
Made my list and then randomly sorted it. Here's the list before the sort.
1. The Vein of Gold, Julia Cameron
2. Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
3. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot
5. Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott
6. On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner
7. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
8. Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande
9. The Writing of Fiction, Edith Wharton
10. Roderick Hudson, Henry James
11. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
12. The Marble Faun, Nathaniel Hawthorne
13. The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
14. Writing Past Dark, Bonnie Friedman
15. Roxana, Daniel Defoe
16. Negotiating with the Dead, Margaret Atwood
17. The Faith of a Writer, Joyce Carol Oates
18. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
19. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
20. The Legends of Parsifal, Mary Hanford Ford
Sorted the list in a Google Sheet. See below:
Number 14 is On Becoming A Novelist, John Gardner
What did you get?
I've read Gardner's The Art of Fiction, which taught me a few things.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of his writing books (maybe all?), but have yet to read one. Looking forward to reading this one.
DeleteClever thinking from Deb ! I haven't heard of your book, I got The dead secret by Wilkie Collins, so now let's play 😉
ReplyDeleteWilkie! I have about a third left of The Woman in White. Really enjoying it, though I've been reading it since September. lol Enjoy your read!
DeleteI like books about writing - hope this one is interesting and inspiring!
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