“Beginning fiction writers ought to find the following 13 books helpful in a number of ways.”
Flannery O’Connor
THE COMPLETE STORIES
William Faulkner
THE SOUND AND THE FURY
Jean Toomer
CANE
Italo Svevo
THE CONFESSIONS OF ZENO
George Meredith
THE EGOIST
Eudora Welty
ONE WRITER’S BEGINNINGS
Marilynne Robinson
HOUSEKEEPING
Louise Erdrich
LOVE MEDICINE
Franz Kafka
THE METAMORPHOSIS
Toni Cade Bambara
THE SEA BIRDS ARE STILL ALIVE
James Dickey
DELIVERANCE
Marguerite Duras
THE VICE-CONSUL
James Wilcox
MODERN BAPTISTS