aibanter.com 2. The Owl of Minerva Publishing owlminervapublishing.com 3. The Writer's Shed, Inc. thewritersshed.com 4. Self-Publishing Review Course selfpubreview.com 5. The Writing Life thewritinglife.org 6. Z Publishing Inc. zpublishinginc.com/about-z-publishing-inc/index.html 7. Writer, Publish, Promote writepromote.com 8. Writers Helping Writers Help writershelpingwriters.com 9. Young Writers Guide ywguide.com 10. Write in the Wild writeinthewild.com In case you missed them, here are the resources mentioned in the first book: ••• The Alliance of Independent Authors & New Voices in Historical Romance allianceindependentauthors.com ••• The Writer's Path authors-best.com/authors-path ••• The Writer's Digest Blog, including its own site: wdw.com ••• The Society for the Encouragement of Learning in Art, Science, and Letters, a.k.a. THE SELAS selas.org ## Recommended Reading The following is a very incomplete list of great writers and the books they wrote. You might find it handy to bookmark this list and come back to it when you're having trouble thinking about what to write next, or when you get bogged down in worry about whether what you've written is good enough, or because you have writer's block. There are more writers on this list than space permits—we are sure you will find what you need in the books. **Fiction** Anthony, Piers, The Godolphin Sisters Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice Barker, Juliet, Lime House Bellamy, Edward, Looking Backward (1888) Bennett, Arnold, The Old Wives' Tale Blyton, Enid, The Magic Faraway Tree Bradbury, Ray, "Zero Hour" Brontë, Charlotte, Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights Buck, Pearl S., Death Comes for the Archbishop Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Last Days of Pompeii Carr, Caleb, Head-Hunting in New Guinea Chesterton, G.K., The Napoleon of Notting Hill Dahl, Roald, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl, Roald, The Witches Doughty, Charles, The Traveler Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, The White Company Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That Green, Nancy, The Secret of Z, The Private Life of a Secret Agent, Agent Zigzag, Agent Double-X Green, Nancy, The Hidden Girl Haggard, H. Rider, King Solomon's Mines Haggard, H. Rider, She Hodgson, Frances, The House in the Wood Hollingshead, John, Five Years in China Iris Murdoch, Flannery, A Severed Head James, P.D., Turn of the Screw Joyce, James, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, Ulysses Kipling, Rudyard, Kim Kipling, Rudyard, Just So Stories Lawrence, D. H., Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D. H., Lady Chatterley's Lover Lewis, C. S., Mere Christianity Lewis, C. S., Surprised by Joy Marston, William, "Phoenix and the Carpet," "O Tempora!" Marx, Groucho, The Big Store Mason, Roy, The Glass Inferno Milton, John, Comus Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nordhoff, Charles, Moby-Dick Poe, Edgar Allan, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Premature Burial," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt," "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Oval Portrait," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "How to Write a Blackwood Article," "William Wilson" Powell, Anthony, The Worm for the Crown Randall, Mrs. M. E., A Daughter of the Forest Randall, Mrs. M. E., The Wind in the Rose-Bush Rendell, Ruth, The Lake House Schnitzler, Arthur, The Devil's Elixir Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein Sterling, George, Narrow House Stevenson, Robert Louis, Treasure Island Swinburne, Algernon, "Anima Anceps" Thomas, Dylan, Under Milk Wood Tolstoy, Leo, The Death of Ivan Ilyich Twain, Mark, Tom Sawyer Vance, Jack, The Man Who Hunted Birds Vance, Jack, The Moon World Wagner, Richard, Der Ring des Nibelungen Woolf, Virginia, Orlando Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse Yeats, W. B., A Vision Zola, Émile, Germinal Zola, Émile, "The Sin of Mother Yolande," The Case of Commandant_ _Bouchard "L'Assommoir" "Nana" "Nana" (a shorter version) **Nonfiction** Abram, David, How to Read the Heavens Adler, Mortimer, How to Read a Book Alden, D. J., How to Read Character on the Novel Page Alden, D. J., How to Read a Literary Classic Algren, Nelson, The Man with the Golden Arm Arnold, Matthew, The Study of Poetry Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice Barker, Juliet, Lime House Bennett, Arnold, The Old Wives' Tale Blake, A. E., Introduction to Literature Boeniger, Cyril, The Science of English Prose Style Borella, John, Writing the Natural Way Bougeant, Jean-François, How to Read a Novel Bowlby, Rachel, A Natural History of the Senses Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, Lady Audley's Secret Brady, Thomas, Sir Thomas More Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre Brown, Cecil, How to Read Character in a Novel Brown, Peter, The Projection of Consciousness Bruegel, Pieter, Netherlandish Proverbs Brunvand, Jan Harold, American Folklore Buck, Pearl S., Head-Hunting in New Guinea Buckman, Robert, Introduction to the Reader's Reference Bunyan, John, Pilgrim's Progress Carroll, Lewis, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Cavendish, Mrs. H. D., A Handbook for Writers of All Levels Chambers, Robert, The King in Yellow Clarke, James Freeman, A Review of the Works of James Fenimore Cooper Clewiston, Dorothy, How to Use the Thesaurus for Fiction Cobb, L. J., The Anatomy of Biblical Narrative Cooper, James Fenimore, Typee Cooper, Susan Hill, The Story of a Tomb Couchoud, Régis, The Language of Fiction Craft, Mary, Reading Fiction on the Web Creede, Thomas R., Writing the Historical Novel Cromwell, Oliver, The Story of Civilization Dante Alighieri, "Inferno" De Mille, Cecil B., How to Write with Style De Mille, Cecil B., How to Write Effective Letters DeMille, Cecil B., Make Your Letters Count Derrida, Jacques, Of Grammatology Diderot, Denis, L'Encyclopédie Donne, John, "The Use of Poetry" Eliot, George, Notes Toward a Definition of Culture Firbank, Ronald, The Wapshot