On Writing by Stephen  KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
515 books — 628 voters
The Night Circus by Erin MorgensternJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónOutlander by Diana GabaldonMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Historical Fiction With a Dash of Magic
464 books — 745 voters

Southern Harm by Travis CaseyThe Patron Saint of Liars by Ann PatchettHunter's Horn by Harriette Simpson ArnowThe Kentuckians by Janice Holt GilesHannah Fowler by Janice Holt Giles
Kentucky Fiction
49 books — 22 voters

I Capture the Castle by Dodie SmithThe Princess Diaries by Meg CabotThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
Best Diary Novels
173 books — 272 voters
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferDracula by Bram StokerThe Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen ChboskyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
Epistolary Fiction
881 books — 864 voters

Elsie by Barbara Anne WaiteLetters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt StewartNo Life for a Lady by Agnes Morley CleavelandA Bride Goes West by Nannie T. AldersonFather and I Were Ranchers by Ralph Moody
The Old West in First Person
267 books — 46 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbroseBlood and Thunder by Hampton Sides
The American Frontier
547 books — 139 voters


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