Reading Lists

• Becoming Bulletproof by Evy Poumpouras
• Becoming by Michelle Obama
• Big Panda and Tiny Dragon by James Norbury
• Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pollan
• Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood
• 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 Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
• The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
• The Power of Discipline by Daniel Walter
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson

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

General Fiction:

• Literary Landscapes Edited by John Sutherland
• Literary Wonderlands Edited by Laura Miller
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Writer’s Map Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones

Parents Books:

• Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky Kennedy
• Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Golwacki
• Save Our Sleep by Tizzie Hall

Poetry:

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

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
• 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 Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker
• Writing Fiction A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway
• Writing Genre Fiction: Creating Imaginary Worlds: The 12 Rules by Charles Christian

Comics:

• Fables by Will Willingham
• Jim Henson’s The Storyteller by Tyler Jenkins (series of comics)
• Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan
• 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 Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.
• The Sandman Series by Neil Gaiman
• The Watchmen by Alan Moore

Fantasy:

• Age of the Five Trilogy by Trudi Canavan
• Alif the Unseen by Willow Wilson
• Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
• Interpreter of Winds by Fairoz Ahmad
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

General Fiction:

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

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:

• Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past Trilogy by Cixin Liu

Script / Playwriting:

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

Webtoons:

• Get Schooled by Yongtaek Chae/Garam Han
• Ordeal by Brent Bristol
• The Remarried Empress by Alphatart/Sumpul
• True Beauty by Yaongyi
• Wishing You Were Dead by Seocheong/Aran