Writing is thinking, so I write constantly, either professionally or for my own storytelling ends and I think that it’s important to keep track of your influences. Here I collect books or series (mostly fiction, some philosophy) that I enjoy.

  • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, by Laird Barron

  • Post Office, by Charles Bukowski

  • The Myth of Sisyphus, by Albert Camus

  • Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

  • The Library at Mount Char, by Scott Hawkins

  • The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

  • A Lush and Seething Hell, by John Hornor Jacobs

  • The Wheel of Time, by Robert Jordan

  • The Fisherman, by John Langan

  • The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie

  • The Disposessed, by Ursula K Le Guin

  • The Medium is the Massage, by Marshall McLuhan

  • Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville

  • Too Like the Lightning, by Ada Palmer

  • God Bless You, Mister Rosewater, by Kurt Vonnegut