Books I've Read

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I have to create a bibliography of all of the books I’m reading while I complete my MA in professional writing, and I thought this would be a great place to put it (Excel and Word files tend to get lost on my computer.) Unfortunately, I am only just now compiling my list, despite the fact that I am just 2 courses and a thesis away from completing the program. Yeah, sure, I started a list here and there, meaning to keep adding to it, but like I mentioned before, those files tend to get lost.

So, one of my big must-do projects in the coming months is to remember all of the books I’ve read over the past 2 years and create a list here. This one I won’t lose!

Purchase these and other books from Miss Mandy’s Recommended Reads.

Spring 2010

Stein, Sol. How to Grow a Novel: the Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002. Print.

Maass, Donald. Writing the Breakout Novel. Cincinnati, OH: Writer’s Digest, 2001. Print.

Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible: a Novel. New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998.

Fall 2010

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. New York: Viking, 2009. Print.

Angel, Ann, and Sam Andrew. Janis Joplin: Rise up Singing. New York: Amulet, 2010. Print.

Bailey, Tom. A Short Story Writer’s Companion. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. Print.

Evaristo, Bernardine. Blonde Roots. New York: Riverhead, 2009. Print.

Hampl, Patricia. The Florist’s Daughter. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007. Print.

Kingsolver, Barbara. Poisonwood Bible. New York: HarperPerennial / HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998. Print.

Small, David. Stitches: A Memoir–. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2009. Print.

Smith, Cynthia Leitich. Tantalize. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2007. Print.

Voigt, Cynthia. When She Hollers, Cynthia Voight. [S.l.]: Scholastic, 2004. Print.

Spring 2011

Austen, Jane. Emma. New York: Knopf, 1991. Print.

Burroughs, Augusten. Running with Scissors: A Memoir. New York: St. Martin’s, 2002. Print.

Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New York: Scholastic, 2008. Print.

Corrigan, Kelly. The Middle Place. New York: Voice/Hyperion, 2008. Print.

Edson, Margaret. Wit: A Play. New York: Faber and Faber, 1999. Print.

Jacobson, Howard. The Finkler Question. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2010. Print.

Lockhart, E. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks: A Novel. New York: Hyperion, 2008. Print.

Moore, Christopher. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal. New York: Perennial, 2003. Print.

Pratchett, Terry, and Neil Gaiman. Good Omens. Gollancz, 1990. Print.

Fall 2011

Frost, Helen. Crossing Stones. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009. Print.
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George, Kristine O’Connell. Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems. New York: Clarion, 2002. Print.

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Janeczko, Paul B., and Christopher Raschka. A Kick in the Head: [an Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms]. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2005. Print.

Livingston, Myra Cohn. I Am Writing a Poem About– a Game of Poetry. New York: McElderry, 1997. Print.

Mullen, Harryette Romell. Sleeping with the Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California, 2002. Print.

Nye, Naomi Shihab., and Michael Nye. What Have You Lost? New York: Greenwillow, 1999. Print.

Nye, Naomi Shihab., and Paul B. Janeczko. I Feel a Little Jumpy around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs. New York: Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, 1996. Print.

Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. San Diego: Harcourt Brace &, 1994. Print.

Oliver, Mary. Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Print.

Rosenberg, Liz. Earth-shattering Poems. New York, NY: H. Holt, 1998. Print.

Winter Break 2011-2012

Burmeister-Brown, Susan, and Linda B. Swanson-Davies. Glimmer Train Stories. Vol. 81. Portland, Or.: Glimmer Train, 2012. Print. Winter 2012.

Frost, Helen. Diamond Willow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Print.

Frost, Helen. Hidden. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. Print.

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Frost, Helen. The Braid. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.

Mazer, Norma Fox. What I Believe: A Novel. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2005. Print.

Myracle, Lauren. Shine. New York: Amulet, 2011. Print.

Reed, Amy Lynn. Clean. New York: Simon Pulse, 2011. Print.

Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Print.

Spring 2012

Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2003. Print.

Cassill, R. V., and Richard Bausch. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. Print.

Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1993. Print.

Darrow, Sharon. TRASH. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2006. Print.

Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1983. Print.

Handley, Ann, and C. C. Chapman. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011. Print.

Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker: An Alex Rider Adventure. New York: Speak, 2006. Print.

Lucas, Robert W. Customer Service: Skills for Success. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Print.

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. S.l.: S.n., 2009. Print.

Summer 2012

Alexie, Sherman, and Ellen Forney. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. New York: Little, Brown, 2007. Print.

Bryan, Helen. War Brides. London: Penguin, 2007. Print.

Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic, 2009. Print.

James, E. L. . Fifty Shades of Grey. New York: Vintage, 2012. Print.

Kaaberbol, Lene, and Agnete Friis. The Boy in the Suitcase. New York: Soho Crime, 2011. Print.

Larsson, Stieg. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. N.p.: Random House, 2009. Print.

Rothfuss, Patrick. Name of the Wind. New York: DAW, 2007. Print.

Fall 2012

Diamant, Anita. The Red Tent. New York: Picador USA, 1998. Print.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World: And, Brave New World Revisited. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Print.

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness. New York: Ace, 1964. Print.

McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Print.

Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day Two. New York: DAW, 2011. Print.

Winter Break 2012

Avery, Lara. Anything but Ordinary. New York: Hyperion, 2012. Print.

Cameron, Julia. The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. London: Pan, 1995. Print.

Moore, Susanna. The Life of Objects. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Print.

Moore, Susanna. The Big Girls. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. Print.

Russell, Mary Doria. Children of God. New York: Villard, 1998. Print.

Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow. New York: Villard, 1996. Print.

Russell, Mary Doria. A Thread of Grace. New York: Random House, 2005. Print.

Spring 2013

Braudel, Fernand, and Siân Reynolds. The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible. London: Collins, 1981. Print.

Chevalier, Jean, and Alain Gheerbrant. The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. London: Penguin, 1996. Print.

Crowley, John. Little, Big. Toronto: Bantam, 1981. Print.

Garcia, Kami, and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures. New York: Little, Brown, 2009. Print.

Grimassi, Raven. The Wiccan Mysteries: Ancient Origins & Teachings. St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A.: Llewellyn Publications, 1997. Print.

Penman, Sharon Kay. Here Be Dragons. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1985. Print.

What Life Was Like in the Age of Chivalry: Medieval Europe, AD 800-1500. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life, 1997. Print.

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