Reading Lists

Autobiography/Biography:

• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
• Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies of Life by Teri Hatcher
• Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera
• Dewey by Vicki Myron
• Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie T. Chang
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
• The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys by Jenny Norberg

Comics:

• Alan Moore’s Writing For Comics by Alan Moore
• The DC Comics Guide to Creating Comics: Inside the Art of Visual storytelling by Carl Potts
• The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics by Freddie E Williams II
• The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics by Dennis O’Neil

Parents Books:

• Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky Kennedy
• Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Golwacki
• Raising a Secure Child: How Circle of Security Parenting Can Help You Nurture Your Child’s Attachment, Emotional Resilience, and Freedom to Explore by Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell
• Save Our Sleep by Tizzie Hall

• Becoming Bulletproof by Evy Poumpouras
• Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury
• Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan
• Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood
• Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
• Indestructible: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal, Julie Li
• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
• The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking
• The Power of Discipline by Daniel Walter
• The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals by Daniel Walter
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

Poetry:

• The Making of A Poem Edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland
• The Practice of Poetry Edited by Robin Behn & Chase Twichell
• The Sounds of Poetry A Brief Guide by Robert Pinsky
• The Teacher & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms Edited by Ron Padgett

Script / Playwriting:

• A Playwright’s Devising Journey by Haresh Sharma
• Story Substance, Structure, Style, and The Principle of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
• Theater The Living Art by Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
• Three Uses of The Knife On The Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet
• The Playwright’s Guidebook by Stuart Spencer

• Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss
• Fiction Writer’s Handbook by Hallie and Whit Burnett
• How Not To Write A Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
• Literary Landscapes Edited by John Sutherland
• Literary Wonderlands Edited by Laura Miller
• Narrative Design by Madison Smartt Bell
• Negotiating With The Dead A Writer of Writing by Margaret Atwood
• Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Art of Fiction Illustrated From Classic and Modern Texts by David Lodge
• The Art of Fiction Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner
• The Art of The Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate
• The Creative Writing Coursebook by John Singleton & Mary Luckhurst
• The Creative Writing Coursebook Edited by Julia Bell & Paul Magrs
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
• The Writer’s Map Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones
• Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler by Lavinia Spalding
• Writing Fiction A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway
• Writing Genre Fiction: Creating Imaginary Worlds: The 12 Rules by Charles Christian

Comics:

• Avatar: The Last Airbender series of comics by Gene Luen Yang
• Batman: One Bad Day – Clayface by Collin Kelly
• Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury
• Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales
• Fables by Will Willingham
• In Real Life: A Graphic Novel by Cory Doctorow
• Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel by Ryan Lang
• Jim Henson’s The Storyteller by Tyler Jenkins (series of comics)
• Jim Henson’s Storyteller series by various writers & artists
• Mouse Guard by David Peterson
• Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
• Pet Human by David Guy Levy
• Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
• Sabrina by Nick Drnaso
• Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
• The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
• The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.
• The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman
• The Watchmen by Alan Moore
• Trese by Budjette Tan
• Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern
• Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Millar
• Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Fantasy:

• A Wizard of Earthsea series by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Age of the Five Trilogy by Trudi Canavan
• Alif the Unseen by Willow Wilson
• Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb
• Cat Out of Hell by Lynne Truss
• Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
• Dracula Daily (Emails sent out on the exact dates of the diary entries)
• Dragonheart by Charles Edward Pogue
• Empire of Ants by Bernard Werber
• Fishbone Cinderella by Elizabeth Lim
• Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
• His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman
• Interpreter of Winds by Fairoz Ahmad
• Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Black Magician trilogy by Trudi Canavan
• The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
• The Chronicles of Sword and Sand by Howard Andrew Jones
• The Dead Wife’s Handbook by Hannah Beckman
• The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
• The Gates by John Connolly
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• The Riftwar Legacy/Saga series by Raymond E. Feist
• The Magic Kingdom of Landover series by Terry Brooks
• Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
• Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed

General Fiction:

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Let’s Give It Up for Gimme Lao! by Sebastian Sim
• Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier
• Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
• The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
• The Handmaid’s Tale & The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

Poetry:

• Sohrab Sepehri: A Selection of Poems from the Eight Books by Sohrab Sepehri
• Songs of Innocence and Of Experience by William Blake
• The Ninjas by Jane Yeh
• The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction:

• Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
• Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy by Cixin Liu
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Liu Cixin

Script / Playwriting:

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
• King Lear by William Shakespeare
• The Sweeney Todd Shock ‘n’ Roll Show by Peter Miller and Randall Lewton
• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Webtoons:

• Eternal Nocturnal by Instantmiso
• Get Schooled by Yongtaek Chae/Garam Han
• Marry My Husband by Sung Sojak
• My Gently Raised Beast by Yeoseulki , Kim JunJun
• Mystical by Van. J
• Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint by Umi, singNsong
• Ordeal by Brent Bristol
• Siren’s Lament by Instantmiso
• The Archmage’s Restaurant by Bad Boys, Mr. Cha
• The Remarried Empress by Alphatart/Sumpul
• True Beauty by Yaongyi
• Wishing You Were Dead by Seocheong/Aran