9 of 100: A list of stuff you need to read, or could read, or research, to help you in the writing you’d like to do.
**Pretty much anything recommended by Jeremy, especially books aimed at being a better person and/or understanding other people. It can all lend to being a better writer and writing better characters. Better, better, better. For the big novel I wanted to write since I was a child, I want to read a lot of dream science books. I want to find the lines between dreams, hallucinations, different mental disorders, and how my characters navigate between these areas.**
1. The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
2. The Red Book by Carl Jung
3. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
4. Steering the Craft by Ursula K. Le Guin
5. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
6. Sin and Syntax by Constance Hale
7. Story by Robert McKee
8. Why We Dream by Alice Robb
9. Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
10. Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
11. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway
12. Reality Hunger by David Shields
13. Madness, Rack, and Honey by Mary Ruefle
14. The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang
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