foundations

Some have been with me for decades, others for far less, but these are the books that have shaped my creative thinking over however long it’s been now that I’ve been doing whatever this is that I've been doing.

12 favorite books, currently

• STONER (John Williams, 1965)

• THE BLACK DAHLIA (James Ellroy, 1995)

• RED HARVEST (Dashiell Hammett, 1929)

• WAR AND PEACE (Leo Tolstoy, 1869)

• THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS (Ursula K Le Guin, 1969)

• MIDDLEMARCH (George Eliot, 1872)

• FRANKENSTEIN (Mary Shelley, 1818)

• THE BODY ARTIST (Don DeLillo, 2001)

• BLINDNESS (José Saramago, 1995)

• SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Ray Bradbury, 1962)

• KINDRED (Octavia Butler, 1979)

• THE MEMORY POLICE (Yoko Ogawa, 1994)