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Books Every Author Should Read

Reading on a daily basis allows writers to learn new styles, words and find inspiration from some of the greatest writers of all time. If you aren't finding time on a daily basis to read even a few pages, your writing will almost certainly suffer.
Now there are a lot of books for you to choose from, many of which will help you become a better writer, but there are a select few that truly stand out. These are the books every author should read sometime in their life.
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (Jane Smiley)
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (Jane Smiley)
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About Writing (Samuel R. Delany)
About Writing (Samuel R. Delany)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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Becoming a Writer (Dorothea Brande)
Becoming a Writer (Dorothea Brande)
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Bird by Bird
Bird by Bird
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
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The Complete Essays of Montaigne
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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Dubliners
Dubliners
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The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
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Emma
Emma
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
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The Garden Party
The Garden Party
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Hamlet
Hamlet
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus
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How Fiction Works
How Fiction Works
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If You Want to Write (Brenda Ueland)
If You Want to Write (Brenda Ueland)
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
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Letters to a Young Novelist (Mario Vargas Llosa)
Letters to a Young Novelist (Mario Vargas Llosa)
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Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
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The Martian
The Martian
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Middlemarch
Middlemarch
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Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe)
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