5 Books on every Aspiring Author’s Reading List

“How did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries.”

Whether you're looking for a series of essays about the future, a book about nature or a story about how to accept uncertainty, these five choices can provide you with a new way of thinking that can help you grow -- and help your business grow as a result.

One definite way to improve the writing and reading skills, especially as a writer and a reader, is to voraciously read and research great writings such as writers like Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, and Woolf. In the pursuit of bettering the writing skills, it’s always helpful to understand multiple voices with varying narrative techniques.

To get you started, here are the five books any devoted author or the reader should add to his or her reading list.

1. Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger

2. Damn Fine Story – Chuck Wendig

3. The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed the Game of Baseball Scott Gray

4. Dave Barry Slept Here – Dave Barry

5. Save the Cat – Blake Snyder

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