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Creative Writing: Inspiration

Creative writing includes poetry and verse, novels, short stories, novellas, and memoirs which draw on one's imaginative processes to express meaning via imagery and narrative, contrasting with nonfictional types of writing.

 

 

A reader lives a thousand lifetimes through books. A book may stay with you all your life. Choose the wondrous and unique reads to guide you through life with mystery and awe! Read from your heart and not only because a good book is a precious companion through tough times: it is also a fantastic example for an aspiring author of how to do it right.

So take a pick, find out if any Anatolia Library has it, and request it from the Library Hub.

For any further questions ask your Librarian. You may also suggest books you believe are missing from the Library's catalog.

Find the suggestion box next to the Library Hub and place your suggestion there or fill out the online form.

Fantasy

The lord of the rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

The hobbit, or, There and back again

by J.R.R. Tolkien

A Game of Thrones

by George R.R. Martin

A clash of kings

by George R.R. Martin

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

by J.K. Rowling

Prince Caspian

by C.S. Lewis

The fifth season

by N. K. Jemisin

Eragon

by Christopher Paolini

The golden compass

by Philip Pullman

v

by Rick Riordan

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

By Ransom Riggs

Contemporary Fiction

Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

The god of small things 

by Arundhati Roy

A man called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

We are all birds of Uganda

by Hafsa Zayyan

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Díaz

The goldfinch 

by Donna Tartt

Fates and furies

by Lauren Groff

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A brief history of seven killings

by Marlon James

We are all completely beside ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

Little fires everywhere

by Celeste Ng

Sing, unburied, sing

by Jesmyn Ward

American pastoral

by Philip Roth

White teeth

by Zadie Smith

Everywhere you don't belong: a novel

by Gabriel Bump

Mr Wilder and me

by Jonathan Coe

The mermaid of Black Conch

by Monique Roffey

How beautiful we were

by Imbolo Mbue

Young adult

The perks of being a wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

The maze runner

by James Dashner

The fault in our stars

by John Green

To all the boys I've loved before

by Jenny Han

The hate u give

by Angie Thomas

Five feet apart

by Rachael Lippincott with Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis

The scorch trials

by James Dashner

The clockwork crow

by Catherine Fisher

City of bones

by Cassandra Clare

Mortal engines 

by Philip Reeve

Thirteen reasons why

 by Jay Asher

The virgin suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Looking for Alaska

by John Green

Everything, everything

by Nicola Yoon

If I stay

by Gayle Forman

The book thief

by Markus Zusak

Beastly

by Alex Flinn

Her Majesty's Royal Coven

by Dawson, Juno

Mystery & thriller

The girl with the dragon tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

I'm the girl: a novel

by Courtney Summers

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

The girl who played with fire

by Stieg Larsson

The Penguin book of American short stories

edited by James Cochrane

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

by Alexander McCall Smith

The private patient

by P.D. James

Science fiction

Dune

by Frank Herbert

Uglies

by Scott Westerfeld

The Last Cuentista

by Donna Barba Higuera

Ancillary justice

by Ann Leckie

Ancillary sword

by Ann Leckie

The left hand of darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Jurassic Park

by Crichton Michael

Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

Ready player one

by Ernest Cline

Horror

Dracula

by Bram Stoke

The silence of the lambs

by Thomas Harris

Doctor Sleep

by Stephen King.

In the forest

by Edna O'Brien

Edgar Allan Poe : a collection of stories

We need to talk about Kevin

by Lionel Shriver

Something wicked this way comes

by Ray Bradbury

The woman in black

by Susan Hill

Lord of the flies

by William Golding

The rabbit hutch

by Tess Gunty

Romance

Lady Chatterley's lover

by D.H. Lawrence

Call me by your name

by Andre Aciman

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Water for elephants

by Sara Gruen

North and south

Elizabeth Gaskell edited with an introduction by Angus Easson.

Pride and prejudice

by Jane Austen

The gate of angels

by Penelope Fitzgerald

The notebook

by Nicholas Sparks

Emma

by Jane Austen

Minaret

by Leila Aboulela

Suggestions

Where the crawdads sing

by Delia Owens

Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine

by Gail Honeyman

All the light we cannot see

by Anthony Doerr

American dirt

by Jeanine Cummins

Memoirs of a geisha

by Arthur Golden

One of us is lying

by Karen M. McManus

The secret life of bees

by Sue Monk Kidd

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

The silent patient

by Alex Michaelides