A Writer is a Reader

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. –Stephen King

2026

1. The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
2. The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
3. Twice – Mitch Albom
4. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
5. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens – This one will take a while, but I will savor it on the podcast, Storytime for Grownups.
6. Magnolia Summer – Melanie Dickerson
7. Gentle and Lowly – Dane Ortlund
8. Don’t Overthink It – Anne Bogel
9. Believing – Anita Hill
10. Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith – Anne Lamott
11. I Am Malala – Malala Yousafsai
12. Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
13. Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
14. I Am a Church Member – Thom S. Rainer
15. Theo of Golden – Allen Levi
16. Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
17. When Did I Stop being 20 and Other Injustices: Selected Poems from Single to Mid-Life – Judith Viorst
18. The Real West – David Fisher and Bill O’Reilly
19. All My Knotted-Up Life – Beth Moore
20. The Stranger in the Lifeboat – Mitch Albom
21. The River is Waiting – Wally Lamb
22. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria – Beverly Daniel Tatum
23. From Strength to Strength – Arthur Brooks
24. Come to the Table – Crystal Manget
25. The Calamity Club – Kathryn Stockett
26. A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
27. The Intruder – Freida McFadden