Books That Made Me Who I Am
These are the books that made me into the writer (and person) I am. Some of these books I read as a teenager, some in college, some in grad school, and a few were the books that inspired me to write YA. If I'd never encountered them, I wouldn't be writing what—and how—I write today.
Drown by Junot Diaz
1 like
1 repin
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
2 repins
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
1 like
1 repin
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1 repin
The Last Life by Claire Messud
2 repins
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles
4 repins
The End of Alice by A.M. Homes
1 like
2 repins
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
1 like
3 repins
Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
1 repin
Look at Me by Jennifer Egan
3 repins
Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr
2 repins
Use Me by Elissa Schappell
1 repin
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
1 repin
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
1 repin
The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S. Tepper
Thicker Than Water by Kathryn Harrison
2 repins
Exposure by Kathryn Harrison
1 repin
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
2 repins
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
1 repin
Live Girls by Beth Nugent
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
1 like
4 repins
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
1 repin
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
2 repins
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5 repins
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
1 repin
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2 repins
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill
2 repins
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
2 repins
A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
Boy Heaven by Laura Kasischke
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Feathered by Laura Kasischke
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Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter
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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
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Runaway by Alice Munro
3 repins
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
2 repins
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coe This book is so amazing. It's also on my "all-time favorite books" list!