There is no such thing as too many books! I’m an avid reader and an ardent enthusiast for well crafted stories.
Here you can find a list of books that I’ve read, am currently reading, or plan to read.
This page is an attempt to keep track of all the books and share them with you.
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said. ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'”
Anne Lamott, author of several novels, writer of columns and reviews, and a writing teacher, shares her offbeat wisdom in this book whose title is a nod to her writer father, who once told Lamott’s brother, paralyzed with writer’s block on the eve of a deadline for a science report, to take it “bird by bird.”
If you have ever wondered what it takes and means to be a writer and what the contents of your school lunches said about what your parents were really like, this book is for you. From faith, love, and grace to pain, jealousy, and fear, Lamott insists that you keep your eyes open, and then shows you how to survive. And always, from the life of the artist she turns to the art of life.
My Rating
James Baldwin
Nonfiction, Essays, Race, Classics, History, Politics, Social Movements, Social Justice, Anti-racism, African American, Autobiography, Memoir
1963, US
Story Genius:
How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel
Lisa Cron
Language, Writing, Nonfiction, Crafts, How To, Research, Psychology
2016, US
On Writing:
A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
Nonfiction, Language, Writing, Autobiography, Books About Books, Horror
2000, UK / edition 2012
Utopia for Realists:
And How We Can Get There
Rutger Bregman
Nonfiction, Politics, Economics, Philosophy, History, Sociology, Culture, Society, Business, Social Movements, Social Justice
2014, Netherlands / edition 2018
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Contemporary, Africa, Western Africa, Nigeria
2018, US
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction, Autobiography, Race, History, Social Movements, Social Justice, Politics, African American
2015, US
The Fifth Season
(The Broken Earth #1)
N.K. Jemisin
Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, LGBT
2015, US
The Three-Body Problem
(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)
Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu)
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Aliens, Speculative Fiction, China
2008, China / edition 2016
Yuval Noah Harari
Nonfiction, History, Philosophy, Science, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Culture, Technology
2018, UK
Fritz Gesing
Language, Writing, Nonfiction, European Literature, German Literature
2004, Germany
Stein on Writing:
A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
Sol Stein
Language, Writing, Nonfiction, How To, Crafts, Education, Books About Books, Business
1995, US
Yuval Noah Harari
Nonfiction, History, Science, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology
2011 (in Hebrew), 2014 (in English)
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Didier Eribon (translated by Tobias Haberkorn)
Nonfiction, Sociology, Cultural, Biography, Politics, Philosophy, Memoir, GLBT, French Literature
2009, France
Jennifer Egan
Fiction, Contemporary, Music, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction
2010, US
Siri Hustvedt
Fiction, Contemporary, Art, Literary Fiction, American Literature, New York
2003, US
Miranda July
Fiction, Contemporary,Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction, LGBT, American Literature
2015, US
Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Thomas Reschke)
Classics, Fiction, Novels , Russian Literature, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
first published 1967
5th edition 2008
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction, Classics, Feminism, Speculative Fiction, LGBT, Gender
1969, US
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science Fiction, Politics, Feminism, Speculative Fiction, Philosophy, Utopia
1974, US
Neal Stephenson
Hard Science Fiction, Fantasy, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Dystopia, Space, Speculative Fiction
2015, US
Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski (translated by August Scholz)
Classics, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cultural, Russia
1868/1869, Russia
Jennifer Egan
Fiction, Contemporary, Music, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction
2010, US