favorite fiction that comes to mind:

  • A Long Walk – Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachmann)
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
  • Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
  • The Road – Cormac McCarthy
  • East of Eden – John Steinbeck
  • The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
  • The Rainmaker – John Grisham
  • The Bartimaeus Sequence – Jonathan Stroud
  • The Terror – Dan Simmons
  • Carrion Comfort – Dan Simmons
  • Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
  • Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler

some favorite nonfiction

  • The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero – William Kalush
  • Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping – Paco Underhill
  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft – Stephen King
  • The 4-Hour Workweek – Timothy Ferriss
  • Shake Hands With the Devil – Romeo Dallaire
  • Stalin – Edvard Radzinsky
  • The Rasputin File – Edvard Radzinsky
  • Hollywood Animal – Joe Eszterhas
  • Ghost in the Wires – Kevin Mitnick

some favorite movies / TV shows