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Stephen Emond

• The Art of Urban Sketching, Drawing On Location Around The World
• Gabriel Campanario

• This book is full of sketches of buildings and cityscapes, and was influential in the design of my novel Bright Lights, Dark Nights.

• Dark City, The Lost World of Film Noir
• Eddie Muller

• Really cool book with lots of full page sharp stills from noir films. I was very inspired by the downbeat storytelling and cool aesthetics of noir. Mixed with the urban settings of a lot of noir and the light and dark interplay gave me a lot to work with.

• Eleanor and Park
• Rainbow Rowell
• Kendra
• Coe Booth
• Every Day
• David Levithan
• The First Part Last
• Angela Johnson
• Where Things Come Back
• John Corey Whaley
• Playing in the Dark, Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
• Toni Morrison
• Why We Broke Up
• Daniel Handler
• Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
• Matthew Quick

Tony DiTerlizzi

• Peter Pan and Wendy

• J.M. Barrie's classic has surly pirates, bloodthirsty native Americans, a hungry crocodile, feisty faeries and flying kids with weapons . . . what more could you ask for?

• Watership Down

• Richard Adams takes you on an incredible quest from a home colony that’s completely eradicated to Shangri la. One the way, there are monsters, villains, allies, oh, and a fascist leader trying to seize the hero's new home . . . and its all told with rabbits. You read that right — rabbits.

• The Mouse and the Motorcycle

• Mouse buddy + toy motorcycle = Awesome!

• The Lorax

• In my mind, this one of Dr. Seuss’s undisputed classics. Sadly, we need the Lorax now more than ever.

• Lafcadio: The Lion That Shot Back

• One of Shel Silverstein's lesser known titles, but one of my all-time favorites. Actually, I learned about this one when my younger brother read it for school and had me help with his book report. It is one of those stories that you will always remember.

Michael Northrop

• Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
• Ben Macintyre

• "Fantastic World War II nonfiction: a high-stakes British spy thriller that just happens to be true."

• Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
• Stephan Pastis

• "Hilarious, endearing, and includes a polar bear - what more do you want? This book made me wish I could draw (or at least doodle really well)."

• Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
• H.P. Lovecraft

• "Lovecraft's stories are profoundly weird, insanely good, and they changed horror writing forever, and for the better (which is to say, weirder)."

• Rumble Fish
• S.E. Hinton

• "A short, tough book that hits hard and leaves a mark. Not as famous as The Outsiders, but it had just as big of an impact on me. It was the first novel I reread when I decided to write YA."

   

• A Separate Peace
• John Knowles

• "Darn near perfect: a little masterpiece that quietly tackles the big questions."

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• Homeland
• R.A. Salvatore

• "The first fifty pages of the Dark Elf Trilogy have enough swordplay and plot twists to make you gasp."

• The Tin Woodman of Oz
• L. Frank Baum

• "All the Oz books, actually. But I liked the Tin Woodsman the most, so this is the book I'm listing. Let's not psychoanalyze."

• The Belgariad
• David Eddings

• Also, The Mallorean. "When I was the new kid in school, the characters in these books were my buds. Funny, courageous, and there's 1000 pages worth of them."

• The Princess Bride
• William Goldman

• "Funny and clever and full of heart."

• Dragonlance: Chronicles and Legends

• by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. "I started with the computer game and then turned to the books. Lots of gods and glowy magic and giant spiders rearing in pain! Awesome."

Adam McCauley

• Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald
• Tiktok of Oz
• The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My
• Asterix the Gaul
• The Hobbit
• A Book of Nonsense
• Codex Seriphinianus