20 Master Plots (1993) by Ronald B. Tobias
One of the nice perks of this book is that Tobias includes quotes by other authors to introduce the chapters.
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The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (1925) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald could arguably be the great American novel often desired and debated among readers and writers.
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The Foreign Correspondent (2006) by Alan Furst
The story mostly takes place in Paris in 1938-1939.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) by Azar Nafisi
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi is a memoir of a woman teaching literature in Islamic Iran.
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First Blood (1972) – Rambo – by David Morrell & the Real Ending
If you want to find out what REALLY happened to Rambo, then you’ll just have to read the book.
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The Sorrow of War (1990) by Bảo Ninh
I came across an English translation of The Sorrow of War (1993) and opened it up.
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Style: The Art of Writing Well (1955) by F.L. Lucas
“Your generalization is beautifully epigrammatic.”
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Ernest Hemingway on Writing (1984) by Ernest Hemingway
“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
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Peter Pan (1911) by J.M. Barrie
“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a strange boy who was staring in at the window.”
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I Wonder (2013) by CG FEWSTON
A Poem
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Meditations (1909) by Marcus Aurelius
Quotes
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Ender’s Game (1985) by Orson Scott Card
Earth has been invaded twice by an alien species called Formics.
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The American Novel and Its Tradition (1933) by Richard Chase
The American Novel by Chase has a great chapter called “Three Novels of Manners.”
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One Shot – A Jack Reacher Novel (2005) by Lee Child
Airplane Fiction is simply another genre, and one that Lee Child has mastered.
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The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama (1936) by Lord Raglan
A writer will take just as much pleasure from this book as a historian might.
