We asked writers at the annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference which book inspired them to write. Here are their answers.
1. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
2. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
3. Skin by Dorothy Allison
4. Under a Soprano Sky by Sonia Sanchez
5. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
6. And Her Soul Out Of Nothing by Olena Kalytiak Davis
7. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8. The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
11. Samuel Johnson Is Indignant by Lydia Davis
12. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
13. Dispatches by Michael Herr
14. Light in August by William Faulkner
15. Red Under the Skin by Natasha Sajé
16. Little Savage by Emily Fragos
17. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
18. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
19. The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka
20. Punching Out by Jim Daniels
21. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
22. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
23. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
24. The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
25. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
26. A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
27. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
28. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
29. Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson
30. Middlemarch by George Eliot
31. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
32. Sphere by Michael Crichton
33. Matilda by Roald Dahl
Are you a writer? Tell us which book inspired you to write in the comments below!
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