Writers are readers, too! Here are some books that we've found inspiring, exciting, and fun....

Diane Wilson

• Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
• Eudora Welty, Curtain of Grass
• William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
• Flannery O'Conner, Wise Blood
• Toni Morrison, Beloved

Lowell Mick White, PhD

• Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
• Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
• Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
• Flannery O'Conner, A Good Man Is Hard to Find
• Hunter Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Bud Shrake, Strange Peaches
• Billy Lee Brammer, The Gay Place
• Sarah Bird, The Mommy Club
  
• John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Hazel Ward, PhD

• Julio Cortez, Hopscotch
• Elsa Morante, History: A Novel
• Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
• Machiavelli, The Prince
• Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm
• Shakespeare, (all the tragedies)
• Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Lee Meitzen Grue

• Louis Untermeyer, A Treasury of Great Poems
• John M. Barry, The Rising Tide
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature
• Pablo Neruda, Five Decades: Poems 1925-1970
• Anton Chekhov, Forty Stories
• E. Annie Proulx, Postcards
• Tillie Olsen, Silences
• Eudory Welty, (anything)
• Flannery O'Connor, (anything)
• Martha McFerren, Women in Cars and Anthropology at Midnight
• James Nolan, Why I Live in the Forest and Higher Ground
• Andrei Codrescu, The Blood Countess and Scherezade and (many books of poetry)
• Everette Maddox, American Waste
• Jerry Ward, Jr., After Katrina
• Dave Brinks, The Caveat Onus
• Yusef Komunyakaa, Neon Vernacular
  
• Jaime Gil Biedma (James Nolan translator), Longing
• Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa (editors), The Jazz Poetry Anthology